Wednesday New Artist Discovery #Happens
Happy Wednesday! Your Happens.vip Alternative New Artist Discovery Of The Week is Dead Poet Society. The band’s new single “My Condition” is impacting at Alternative this coming week. Today you get VIP Access to Jack of the Boston 4-piece, Dead Poet Society, who are now based in Los Angeles. Blitz Vega has released a new video for “Disconnected” featuring the late Andy Rourke. Get the 411 in Music Info. AWOLNATION is on the ALT Video Spotlight Of The Week with “Panoramic View.” The new single is set to debut on the Alternative chart. Imagine Dragons “Eyes Closed” is the #1
Dead Poet Society
Dead Poet Society VIP Access with Dead Poet Society ARTIST Dead Poet Society SONG "My Condition" LABEL Spinefarm ORIGIN Boston/Los Angeles My name is Jack. I’m the singer of Dead Poet Society. We formed in college at a school in Boston called Berklee. Playing rock was never really something I had in mind, but after we wrote our first song together, I knew that this band was what I wanted. Will the drummer, and I joined a year after Jack, our guitarist and our old bassist had formed the band. After
Blitz Vega Memorializes The Late Andy Rourke In ‘Disconnected’ Video
Featuring footage filmed before Andy Rourke's untimely death, Blitz Vega’s official music video for new single “Disconnected” teleports the band back to happier times in the studio, while recording their debut album Northern Gentlemen, set to drop on May 17th via FutureSonic Records/CEN/The Orchard). Watch the video for Blitz Vega "Disconnected" HERE. Kav (formerly of Happy Mondays) formed Blitz Vega in 2016 with Rourke before his terminal battle with cancer. Kav said, "We originally started recording the track in July 2019 in a studio in Echo Park, CA. Andy came in with the bassline and we built a song around
Famous Firsts #Happens On Monday
Happy Monday! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! Ready for the Solar Eclipse? WEQX/Albany, NY PD Jeff Morad checked in this morning to say the station will play the Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon album straight through, uninterrupted beginning at 2:44p (ET). The album will peak as the eclipse does. #solareclipse We kickoff the first day of the week with Laura Lee from WWCD/Columbus, OH sharing Famous Firsts. A big ratings shout out to KRXP (X103.9)/Colorado Springs. The station posted its fourth consecutive increase 2.4-2.7 in the latest batch of Nielsen February ‘24 12+ Ratings. Congrats to
Week of 4/8
ALT Happy Birthday wishes this weekend to A&R Worldwide's Joe Arnold (4/12), Photo Finish's Matt Galle (4/13), and KNRK/Portland, OR Morning Host & The Bottom Forty’s Greg Glover (4/13).
Billie Eilish Announces Third Studio Album
Billie Eilish has revealed her third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft will see its global release on May 17 via Darkroom/Interscope Records. Her most daring body of work to date is being described as a diverse yet cohesive collection of songs, ideally listened to in its entirety from beginning to end. The album does exactly as the title suggests: hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically while bending genres and defying trends along the way. Hit Me Hard And Soft was written by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, her brother and long-time collaborator, who also produced the
Smallpools Night Shift Tour Begins In Support Of New Ghost Town Road EP
Los Angeles trio Smallpools released their new EP Ghost Town Road (east) on April 5th, part one of their forthcoming full-length album out later this year via Nettwerk. It was written and recorded at guitarist Michael Kamerman’s house in Los Angeles, with collaborations from colin creeV of Third Eye Blind and Mitchy Collins of lovelytheband. As a project that splits time between Los Angeles and Nashville, Kamerman, frontman Sean Scanlon, and drummer Beau Kuther reflected on the evolution of each city in the decade since their debut single "Dreaming." "When the band first started, the goal was to play the
