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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.

MUSEXPO Unveils 2025 Dates 

MUSEXPO “The United Nations Of Music” has unveiled its landmark 25th edition for its global music business conference which will take place March 16-19, 2025 at Castaway in Burbank, CA.  Sat Bisla, President & Founder, MUSEXPO, said, "MUSEXPO 2025 is poised to be our best event ever and promises to surpass all expectations” according to , who will embrace a personal milestone of 40 years of contributions to the U.S. and international music industry in 2025." MUSEXPO will present “International Music Industry Awards” with the annual Seymour Stein "Global A&R Award," "International Music Person of the Year" and "Lifetime Achievement

July 22nd, 2024|Alternative, News Updates|

The Smashing Pumpkins Will Release New Album In August

The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed their 13th album, Aghori Mhori Mei, will drop on August 2nd.  "In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again,'" said frontman Billy Corgan. "Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory." Corgan posted on social

July 22nd, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

The Airborne Toxic Event Will Release New Album In September 

The Airborne Toxic Event have a new album, Glory, that they will release on September 6th via Little Tokyo. The announcement arrived with the title track and you can check out the lyric video for “Glory” HERE.  "The journey through the world that you document through songwriting is not manageable," shares frontman Mikel Jollett. "It just happens. I get in certain moods and all I want to hear is a person singing the thing I'm feeling. Even if the thing I'm feeling is so fucked up. It's a relief. I don't know why that's true. But it is." The Airborne

July 22nd, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

New Music Friday #Happens With Glass Animals

UK 4-piece Glass Animals release their fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, today via Republic. The new 10 song collection includes the lead single “Creatures In Heaven.” Glass Animals debuted the first song on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it HERE. This morning, the band chatted with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings about the new album and its creation process as well as their upcoming tour. Glass Animals frontman/producer David Bayley said, "I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing

July 19th, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

Alternative New Music Friday #Happens

Happy Friday! Alternative New Music Friday #Happens With Glass Animals. The Oxford, England’s fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, is out today via Republic. The band debuted the opening track on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. New singles from honestav & MOD SUN (with 70 Million Global Streams), bby (Glassnote’s “baby” also have their debut album, 1, out today), and Hippo Campus (via Sylvan Esso’s artist-run record company, Psychic Hotline) are now available for airplay on Happens Alternative Downloads. Declan McKenna has announced new October headline U.S. tour dates ahead

July 19th, 2024|Alternative, Introduction|

Declan McKenna Adds New Fall U.S. Tour Dates

Declan McKenna announces headlining tour dates in October. The new tour dates precede his previously announced dates supporting Sabrina Carpenter in cities including Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more. McKenna sold out three U.S. tours last year.  Tickets for these new dates go on sale Friday, July 19 at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE.  McKenna says, “I was putting a lot of pressure on myself in the past when I just needed to drop the intensity a bit and have some fun," said McKenna about his third album, What Happened To The

July 17th, 2024|Alternative, Music Info|

Wednesday Alternative Artist Discovery #Happens

Happy Wednesday! Your Happens.vip Alternative Artist Discovery Of The Week is Jutes. The L.A. based artist was raised on a farm in Canada. His influences are Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, The Neighbourhood, Kid Cudi and you can really hear it on his new single “Sleepyhead.” Today you get VIP Access with Jutes. Big thanks to Artie Gentile for getting this on our radar. Eddie Vedder “Save It For Later” is #1 Most Added this week on the Mediabase Add Board. The English Beat cover song is from Hulu series The Bear Season 3. Yesterday, bby and Hippo Campus released new

July 17th, 2024|Alternative, Introduction|

Jutes

Jutes   VIP Access. Let's meet Jutes.   ARTIST Jutes SONG "Sleepyhead" LABEL Jutes (via Too Lost) ORIGIN Toronto I’m Jutes. I started making music in my dorm room in college when I realized I was wasting my time in the wrong program. Very quickly I fell in love and dropped out to pursue it full time. I make alternative rock and I’d say my music is dark, heavy and emotional. It’s also fueled by nostalgia, trying to bring back influences from when I was a kid in the late

July 17th, 2024|Alternative, New Artist Discovery of the Week|

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