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Shawn Alexander

Shawn Alexander has been connecting the Alternative Community from Radio & Records (1989-1995) to All Access (1996-2023) to #Happens.

Alternative New Music Friday #Happens

Happy Friday! Alternative New Music Friday #Happens With The Mysterines. The Liverpool, England female fronted band worked with Grammy Award-winning artist, producer, mixer and engineer John Congleton at his new L.A. studio. The band’s second album, Afraid Of Tomorrows, is out today on Fiction Records. Don’t be afraid to sink your teeth in deeper on Shawnski’s Fave Of The Week! New Music This Week from Coldplay, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Søren Hansen, Suki Waterhouse, HARDY, Cowboy Mouth, and Vacations now available for airplay on Happens.vip Alternative Downloads. Ratings Love! In the latest Nielsen May ‘24 PPM 12+ Ratings, WRXL (ALT 102.1)/Richmond

June 21st, 2024|Alternative, Introduction|

Something Corporate Releases First New Single In 20 Years To Kick Off ‘Out Of Office Tour’

Adding to the excitement of the kickoff to Something Corporate’s long-awaited reunion tour June 20th in Brooklyn, NY, frontman and singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness reunited with his early 2000s pop-punk band Something Corporate to release a new single "Death Grip" via Big Loud Rock. Watch the video HERE.  The process of writing and creating "Death Grip" was different for McMahon, who took a casual trip to Nashville in April to flex his dormant writing muscle with friends Luke Nicolli and Ivory Layne. On his last day in town, the trio was able to articulate the moment McMahon had

June 20th, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

Wednesday Artist Discovery #Happens

Happy Wednesday! Your Happens.vip Alternative Artist Discovery Of The Week is almost monday. The San Diego band has an upcoming run of tour dates with AJR beginning next week. Today you get VIP Access with almost monday lead singer Dawson Daugherty. Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life” is #1 Most Added this week. Congrats to Edie Lundeen & The Epitaph team! The new single from the forthcoming Falling In Reverse album is featured below on the ALT Video Spotlight Of The Week! The video is already approaching 5 million views! Ratings Love! WGHL (ALT 105.1)/Louisville had a

June 19th, 2024|Alternative, Introduction|

Cage The Elephant Kick Off Neon Pill Tour This Week, Nashville Tour Date Added

Cage The Elephant’s highly anticipated North American Neon Pill Tour continues to sell-out dates across the country including the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, and many more. Following the band’s Bonnaroo Festival performance this past weekend, where The Tennessean hailed their set as a "rousing, gritty rock 'n' roll performance" in Manchester, TN, Cage The Elephant added a date in the band’s current hometown of Nashville on Sunday, September 1st at Ascend Amphitheater.  The 48-date North American tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off tomorrow (6/20) in Salt Lake City with support

June 19th, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

almost monday

almost monday VIP Access. Let's meet the band. Band Members: Cole Clisby, Dawson Daugherty, Luke Fabry ARTIST almost monday SONG "can't slow down" LABEL Hollywood Records ORIGIN San Diego, CA ️I’m Dawson, lead singer in almost monday.  In high school, Luke and I decided we wanted to start a band.  But, it was just us and we were looking for anyone else who could play to join.  One day, I went surfing and happened to meet Cole.  We ended up back at his house and I found out he played guitar. 

June 19th, 2024|Alternative, New Artist Discovery of the Week|

Famous Firsts #Happens On Monday

Happy Monday! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! We kickoff the first day of the week with Marty Whitney from 91X/San Diego sharing Famous Firsts. Alternative programmers continue buzzing about The Offspring “Make It All Right.” It’s the #1 Most Picked Song for the 2nd week in a row on New Music Discovery Picks. The Offspring also makes a big debut this week on the Alternative chart. Imagine Dragons “Eyes Closed” takes over the top spot on the Alternative chart. Congrats to Robbie Lloyd & The Interscope team! Robbie says 8 of the last 9 Imagine Dragons singles have gone

June 17th, 2024|Alternative, Introduction|

Week of 6/17

ALT Happy Birthday wishes this weekend to Q Prime EVP/GM Warren Christensen (6/22), KIWR (89.7 The River)/Omaha GM/PD Sophia John (6/22), and Paragon Media CEO  Mike Henry (6/23).

June 17th, 2024|Alternative, Birthdays|

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