Happy Wednesday! Hope you had an amazin’ holiday weekend. This week’s #HAPPENS Alternative Artist Discovery is The Happy Fits. The New Jersey quartet’s lead singer Calvin Langman says he grew up listening to WODE (99.9 The Hawk)/Easton, PA. Calvin says, “We pull a lot of influence from the indie and alternative rock of the aughts, but you can definitely hear a lot of 60’s and 70’s classic rock inspiration, too. We infuse a cello into all of our songs since that was my primary instrument growing up.” The Happy Fits release their new album Lovesick on September 19th and begin fall US tour dates on November 1st. Big thanks to UNCLE’s Marc Kordelos for VIP Access to the self-released band. Get to know The Happy Fits on Artist Discovery Of The Week.

Foo Fighters “Today’s Song” is #1 Most Added this week on the Mediabase Alternative Add Board. Congrats to Gary Gorman & the Foo Fighters team!  It’s the band’s first new music since 2023 and commemorates the 30th Anniversary of the band’s 1995 self-titled debut album. “Today’s Song” arrived last Wednesday (7/2) and debuts 25* on the Alternative Chart this week. 

The All-American Rejects “Easy Come, Easy Go” is the only other chart debut this week at 40*. The band continues buzzing with pop-up concerts. They popped out last Saturday (7/5) at the Savannah Bananas game held at Fenway Park. The surprise performance featured Tyson Ritter and the band dressed in yellow Bananas.

Joe Greenwald and Marisa Di Frisco & the Virgin team have a new Mt. Joy single “Lucy” that you need to hear. It has 4.8 Million Global Streams. Listen/Download & get Song Info on #HAPPENS Alternative Downloads HERE. 

AJR debuted their new single “Betty” last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Check it out live HERE.

New singles coming this Friday: All Time Low “The Weather” and Matt Maeson “Downstairs”.

New Music Friday Albums out this week from Wet Leg and Allo Darlin’.

Yellowcard released a third song today from their highly anticipated new album with lead single “Better Days” heading Top 10 on the Alternative Chart. Check out what lead singer Ryan Key has to say about new song on Alternative Music Info.

Great News! Edie Lundeen has been upped to SVP, Radio Promotion at Epitaph / Anti-. Eric “E.” White is the new PD at WEND (106.5 The End)/Charlotte. Get the 411 in Alternative News.

Ratings Love! WAQX (95X)/Syracuse had some great ratings news heading into the holiday weekend. In the latest Nielsen June ‘25 Ratings, WAQX leaped 2.7-4.4 12+. WAQX PD Joe D. says, “It was a really good month for us. We finished Top 5 with P18-49 and 25-54 and #2 with Men in both demos. That’s an increase of 40% month to month and 65% year over year.”

Aaron Axelsen has Nation of Language on the weekly radio artist takeover series FLOOD FM “Hacked” sharing their favorite one hour playlist. Cool stuff! It airs 4x daily at 10am, 1pm, 5pm and 10pm (PT) on FLOODFM.com.

KIWR (89-7 The River)/Omaha celebrates its 30th Anniversary this Saturday, July 12th with 311, Sublime, Blue October, The Urge, Sick Puppies, and Anchondo at River’s Edge. Huge congrats to Sophia John and The River team!

Sad to hear that veteran music industry exec Mark Lipsitz has passed away after a brief illness. He spent the last 25 years at Bar/None Records. Find more HERE.

White Reaper are on this week’s #HAPPENS Alternative Video Spotlight with their new single “Honestly.” Check it out below.