Famous Firsts #Happens On Monday
Happy Monday! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! We kickoff the first day of the week with Pauly Kover from KXTE (X 107.5 Xtreme Radio)/Las Vegas sharing Famous Firsts. Pauly recently returned to the station to host nights and his two-hour Sunday night new music show, “It Hurts When I Pee.” Sum 41 “Dopamine” is the #1 Most Picked song this week on New Music Discovery Picks. Alternative programmers are buzzing about the follow up single that is impacting this week. Royel Otis “Murder On The Dancefloor” dances to #1 on the Alternative chart this week. Congrats to AWAL SVP/Rock
Week of 6/24
ALT Happy Birthday wishes this weekend to Dave & Mahoney Show Host Dave Farra (6/28) and Hollywood Records’ Jeremy Vara (6/29).
WTBV-F2 (97X)/Tampa’s Under Play Featuring Judah & The Lion
Cox Alternative WTBV-F2 (97X)/Tampa-St. Petersburg has announced a "97X Under Play Featuring Judah & The Lion" on Wednesday night, July 17th at the Floridian in downtown St. Petersburg. A limited number of tickets have been released at a special $25 price. After they’re gone, the only way into the up close and personal special acoustic with Judah & The Lion is to listen to 97X to win tickets and the first 50 listeners to stop by an Achieva Credit Union Underplay ticket drop win a pair of free tickets. Find more info HERE.
Yungblud Shares New Single ‘Breakdown’ In Partnership With Mental Health Organizations
Yungblud has shared his latest single "Breakdown" and partnered with mental health organizations Sound Mind Live in the US and Mind in the UK, and will donate $1 (up to $25,000) split between the charities for every use of the "Breakdown" CapCut template. The song was originally written by Yungblud as a poem during a difficult time. The official video is a short film based on an original idea by Yungblud with the script written by the Olivier Award winner Chris Bush (Standing At The Sky’s Edge) and starring revered actor Dame Harriet Walter (Succession, Ted Lasso, Killing Eve). Watch
Soul Coughing Reunite For First Shows In 25 Years
They said it would never happen, but after 25 years, Soul Coughing are reuniting for a 17-date American tour beginning on the west coast on September 11th in San Diego and concluding on the east coast with two nights at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY on October 4th and 5th. All four original members -- Mike Doughty (vocals/guitar), Mark degli Antoni (keyboards/sampler), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), and Yuval Gabay (drums) -- reunite for their first shows together in 25 years. Soul Coughing formed in 1992 after meeting at New York’s Knitting Factory, where Doughty worked the door. The guys merged drum
New Music Friday #Happens With The Mysterines
UK 4-piece The Mysterines release their second album, Afraid Of Tomorrows, today via Fiction Records. In advance of the 12 song collection, The Mysterines dropped three singles: "Stray," "Sink Your Teeth," and "The Last Dance." Formed in Liverpool, The Mysterines – frontwoman Lia Metcalfe, drummer Paul Crilly, bassist George Favager and guitarist Callum Thompson – have undergone a radical transformation over the past few years. Fresh with new purpose and reinvigorated from songwriting sessions while secluded away in the countryside (in between playing to 60,000-strong crowds while on tour with the Arctic Monkeys), The Mysterines spent a month working with
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
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
