Wednesday Alternative Add Board Recap
Happy Wednesday! Congrats to The Orchard’s Scott Burton & team on lovelytheband claiming #1 Most Added for the second-week in a row. We have VIP Access today on HotWax for our New Artist Discovery Of The Week. Go see this band live when you get the opportunity. This UK 3-piece began their first-ever U.S. last week opening for Royal Blood. Canada’s Mother Mother get this week’s ALT Video Spotlight with their new single “The Matrix.” In Music Info I have details on the 2024 When We Were Young Festival, Porno For Pyros farewell tour, and a new album and tour
When We Were Young Festival 2024 Lineup Will Feature Album Sets
The lineup for When We Were Young Festival 2024 has been announced for October 19th at Las Vegas Festival Grounds and there's a new twist, each band will be performing one of their albums. On the bill will be My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, A Day To Remember, Dashboard Confessional, Pierce The Veil, The Used, Simple Plan, Coheed And Cambria, All-American Rejects, Underoath, Bayside, New Found Glory, and more. Pre-sale starts Friday, November 17th at 10a. Find more info at whenwewereyoungfestival.com.
Porno For Pyros Announce Farewell Tour
After a 26 year touring hiatus, L.A.'s Porno For Pyros will embark on their farewell tour in 2024. Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins, and Peter DiStefano kick off their 16-city tour Porno For Pyros – Horns, Thorns En Halos Farewell, produced by Live Nation, on February 13th at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. Farrell said, "Now we’re here, and that same heart, that same desire to make music together, has returned. Getting together with these guys has been some of the most fun, the happiest times in my life." It's been 30 years since their self-titled debut album. Porno For
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HotWax VIP Access with HotWax. Let's meet the band. ARTIST HotWax SONG "Rip It Out" LABEL Marathon Artists ORIGIN Hastings, England Hi, I’m Tallulah. We are HotWax, a band of friends who met at school. Me and Lola met in the first year of Secondary School when our music teacher put us into a band. We immediately clicked musically and then in 2019 started our new band HotWax where I became the front person I had never sung before so a lot of our music when we started HotWax was heavily
Laura Jane Grace Announces New Album And Tour
Laura Jane Grace announces her new album, Hole In My Head, will drop February 16th via Polyvinyl. The announcement came alongside the release of title track and music video directed by actor/photographer Gilbert Trejo (Machete, From a Son). Watch "Hole In My Head" video HERE. The upcoming 11-song collection was recorded at Native Sound in St. Louis with David Beeman and mixed by Matt Allison (The Lawrence Arms, Rise Against). Laura plays guitar and drums with Drive-By Truckers bassist Matt Patton part on over half the album. Grace is the former lead singer and guitarist of political punk band Against
Hopeless Records Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Hopeless Records has announced a year's worth of special initiatives to pay tribute to the label's history. The Los Angeles Valley-based label’s celebration will kick off with an invite only event at Valley Relics Museum on December 8th, where an exhibit showcasing memorabilia, artwork, and milestones from the past 30 years of label history, as well as artists past and present, will be unveiled for the first time. The exhibit will be open to the public the following day, December 9th and will subsequently travel nationwide with stops at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland and The
Week of 11/13
ALT Happy Birthday wishes to INgrooves VP/Commercial Strategy Gabriella Ianni (11/17), KOSU (The Spy)/Oklahoma City PD Ferris O’Brien (11/18), and WEQX/Manchester, VT MD Luke Gelheiser (11/18).
The Monday Alternative Music Meeting
Happy Monday! Hope you had an amazin’ weekend! There’s a lot to unpack on this week’s Mediabase Alternative chart. I will get you the chart highlights you need to know and the 5 new chart debuts. MGMT “Mother Nature” is buzzing and is this week’s #1 song on New Music Discovery Picks. I have ALT Music Info from Maneskin with Rush! (Are You Coming), a new expanded edition of their album with 5 additional songs. We kickoff the first day of the week with Zack Skyler from WGBJ/Ft. Wayne sharing his “Famous Firsts.” Good stuff and great memories. Alternative Chart
