by Shawn Alexander
shawn@happens.vip
Famous Firsts #Happens On Monday
Happy Monday! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! We kickoff the first day of the week with Izzy from KDKB (ALT AZ 93.3)/Phoenix sharing her Famous Firsts. Check out the fun stories on #HAPPENS Famous Firsts.
Mumford & Sons is buzzing at Alternative! “Rushmere” arrived last Friday morning and is the #1 Most Picked song this week on Alternative Picks and debuts at 33* on the Mediabase Alternative chart.
Jack White “Archbishop Harold Holmes” lands the only other chart debut this week at 40*.
Green Day “Bobby Sox” hits #1 this week on the Alternative chart. Congrats to Warner’s Rob Goldklang, David Ravikoff & team! Goldklang told me it’s the band’s 14th #1 single at Alternative and the first time Green Day has 3 #1 songs off an album since American Idiot 20 years ago.
There’s an uncensored Lollapalooza book that will be released in March. Get the 411 on Alternative Music Info.
Big Machine Rock announces a new signing. Check out the smiles on Alternative Photos.
#HAPPENS Las Vegas 2025 is only 37 days away. The #HAPPENS team hope you can make it on February 26-28 for MUSIC.COMMUNITY.DISCOVERY in Downtown Las Vegas. The link for the discounted rooms at the Downtown Grand will be available this week. In the meantime, if you haven’t registered yet, please sign up real quick on this link HERE.
| ARTIST | The Lumineers |
|---|---|
| SONG | “Same Old Song” |
| LABEL | Dualtone |
Directed by filmmaker Anaïs LaRocca (Hundred Waters), the video for The Lumineers “Same Old Song” has Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites performing in front of a living canvas where scenes play out like VHS home movies, creating a morphing collage of moments that feel both immediate and remote. The projections provide a surreal, mysterious window into the mind and memories of The Lumineers.
ALTERNATIVE BIRTHDAYS
ALT Happy Birthday wishes this week to RCA SVP/Alternative & Rock Promotion Gary Gorman (1/21), AMPLIFY’s Tracy Brown (1/24), WKQX (Q101)/Chicago Morning Host Brian “Sludge” Haddad (1/25), Polyvinyl’s Rob Wilcox (1/26).
