Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! We kickoff the first day of the week with Kenny Wall from KXNA (The X 104.9 The X)/Fayetteville, AR sharing his fun stories on #HAPPENS Famous Firsts.

Fontaines D.C. “It’s Amazing To Be Young” is the #1 Most Picked song on Alternative Picks again this week. Fontaines D.C. continues buzzing at Alternative and is now Top 25 on the Alternative Chart.

There are 2 new songs on the Mediabase Alternative Chart this week: The Cure “All I Ever Am” debuts at 39 and half alive “Automatic” debuts at 40*. 

Alternative New Music Discovery #HAPPENS with new singles from The Kooks “Sunny Baby” and Third Eye Blind “Like A Lullaby” releasing new singles at the end of last week and now available for airplay on the Happens Alternative Downloads page. I have their new singles queued up for you to listen, download and get song info below. 

Deftones announce a second leg of summer tour dates with Phantogram & IDLES opening select dates. Everclear has announced a 30th Anniversary Tour with Local H & Sponge. I have the tour dates for you on Alternative Music Info.

WRRV/Hudson Valley’s own Coheed And Cambria played “WRRV Sessions” last Thursday. Check out the big smiles with Jonah Griss-Bush and WRRV Crew on Alternative Photos. Coheed And Cambria’s single “Someone Who Can” is pushing Top 20 on the Alternative Chart.   

ALTERNATIVE NEW MUSIC DISCOVERY  

The Kooks “Sunny Baby” (Lonely Cat/Virgin Music Group) 

Listen & Download HERE.

Brighton, England duo The Kooks released “Sunny Baby” on March 14th. It’s the second song released from the band’s seventh album, Never/Know, out on May 9th. On January 31st, The Kooks released the song “Never Know” from the forthcoming album. 

The Kooks lead singer/guitarist Luke Pritchard says, “I wrote Sunny Baby with a similar mentality to Never Know. We’re always told how bad everything is at the moment; everything’s shit – the world’s shit, and I thought to myself, I refuse to let the coming years be anything other than the best years of life, because I’ve got a young family. It’s about me getting to a balanced life; having a family. It’s a love song about someone making me fall back in love with myself.” 

Last year, The Kooks collaborated with L.A.’s lovelytheband on a single called “Jeanie” and the two bands will tour together for 16 dates beginning at the end of May. Find the tour dates HERE.

Third Eye Blind “Like A Lullaby” (Mega Collider Records) 

Listen & Download HERE.

San Francisco’s Third Eye Blind released “Like A Lullaby” on March 13th via the band’s own label Mega Collider Records via Megaforce. They debuted the new single during a Tiny Desk Concert. It’s the band’s first new music in four years since their seventh album, Our Bande Apart, released in 2021. 

Third Eye Blind’s lead singer Stephan Jenkins said, “My songs are emotional reactions to the times I am in. Mostly, they are driven by the subconscious—a dream of the times, if you will. In these days I am concerned with impermanence, legacy, death and what lives on. I wonder where we go when the very idea of empathy is under threat. This is my retort. But it doesn’t matter what I think. What matters is what happens to you when you listen. I hope this song inhabits you with a feeling that feeds you.” 

The new single was co-produced by Jenkins and Eric Valentine, who produced the band’s breakthrough self-titled debut album in 1997 featuring hit singles “Semi-Charmed Life”, “How’s It Going To Be”, and “Jumper”.