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Say Hello 2 Collective Soul

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While the lineup has changed over the years, much like a lot of the bands I've followed since the 90's, brothers Ed and Dean Roland remain the consistent soul of Collective Soul. Originally out of Georgia, today's lineup, consisting of Will Turpin (bass), Johnny Rabb (drums), and Jesse Triplett (guitar) is still dropping fresh alt rock including 2024's Here To Eternity (recorded at Elvis Presley's Palm Springs estate) and their 2026 drop Touch and Go.  The band filmed the documentary Give Me A Word while recording Here To Eternity in California. The documentary, available on multiple streaming platforms including Amazon Prime and Apple TV, details the band's sudden rise to fame via 90's anthem "Shine", the lawsuit against their management company, their financial hard times before Disciplined Breakdown, and how the current lineup came to be.  We've seen Collective Soul - three times in the last few years. They continue to bring great energy to ...
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Something Like Alt Rock - August Week 2

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Another week down - here are the new tunes we've been listening to all week. You'll find them on the August playlist until we cut it back to just our favorites at the end of the month. Check out all the new songs below: Cowboy Mouth - Blood Money Porch Light - Under Mayday Parade - Two Hearts Eva Under Fire - Safe Word Cold War Kids - Loyalty Greta Van Fleet - Saw You Stand Five Finger Death Punch - Nails in the Coffin Michigander - YYY Vienna Vienna - Angel Wings Cigarettes @ Sunset - Gasoline Blush - Pose The Wrecks - Hangin Out High June - You're Sorry No Pressure - Someone Like You Fort Frances - Parliament Lights Collective Soul - Fun Collective Soul - Heavy Load Collective Soul - Eye On You
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Something Like Alt Rock: Getting August Started

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Should have posted these late July drops last Sunday - but here we are only hours before the next of wave new songs drop. Here's the small group of songs to get our August playlist started. Mayday Parade - Sweet Sad Sugar Citizen Soldier - Flatline Martin Garrix, U2 - Fireflies The Pretty Reckless - Devil in Disguise Switchfoot - Butterfly Effect Muse - The Sickness in You & I Eva Under Fire - Survive My Scars Like Roses - Buried Diva Bleach, Out In Front - Wake Up! Bike Routes - There It Goes Waterparks, Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Sorry My Love, Eric Nally - Tell Me Why Mod Sun - 2 AM Lenny - Casanova Talk - Up & Away The Paradox - I Kinda Like That
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Something Like Alt Rock: Best of July

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That's it! We're calling it and cutting the July 2026 playlist down to our top 20 favorites. Hope you've enjoyed these new tunes as much as we have.  Your favorite didn't make the list, that's okay check the 2026 - 2030 playlist and thanks to all the bands for all the new music!  Fuel take the top spot for July 2026 with their new single "Want It" ahead of October's album Pendulum.  Fuel - Want It Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides The Haunt - Worst Taste in Men Letdown. - Did It To You Switchfoot - Beautiful Life Mayday Parade - Lying to Myself Deer Fang - No Matter What The Beaches - Hypothetical Fai Laci - Cure Upon the Hill Shinedown - Machine Gun Sleeping with Sirens - House of Matches The Pretty Reckless - About You Royale Lynn - Altar Movements - Separate The Warning - Ritual Bike Routes - Ripley Against the Current - You and I Des Rocs - Sing Me Back To Sleep Eva Under Fire - My Own Name Knuckle Bones - Salah Honorable Mentions: Oleander - Fourth...
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Something Like Alt Rock: July 18 Additions

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 Continue to build up our July playlist before start cutting back, we've probably got one more week to build up before we tear it down to just our favorites from the month. Check out this week's new tracks below or on Spotify .  Nickelback with John 5 - Rattle The Cage Sawyer Hill - Alibi Dexter and the Moonrocks - If You Could Talk The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw Gin Blossoms - Everywhere As It Is - I'm So Alive! Stand Atlantic - Lucid Slowly Slowly, Alex Lahey - Let's Go Out Theory of a Deadman - Funeral Song Minute After Midnight - It Was Never A Phase If Not For Me, Windtalkers - I Lie Awake
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Mid 2026 Album Update

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 We are part way through another year full of fantastic music. And while we love spinning up a single here and there, it's good to do some album listening too.  We'll start with our favorites so far in 2026, then touch on the albums we know we need to spend more time listening too, and we'll wrap with upcoming albums we are pumped for: Favorites in Retrospect: (with a sample of each) Lansdowne - Wish You Well Silversun Pickups - Tenterhooks The Format - Boycott Heaven Black Stone Cherry - Celebrate Tigers Jaw - Lost On You Sevendust - One The Maine - Joy Next Door Sly Withers - Make My Mind Up Deer Fang - Forest For The Trees Shinedown - Ei8ht Death Cab for Cutie - I Built A Tower Switchfoot - Forever Now Yonaka - Until You're Satisfied The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw The Pretty Reckless - Dear God What We Need To Spend More Time With: Eva Under Fire Des Rocs - To Hell and Back Evanescence - Sanctuary Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy Metric - Romanticize the Dive...
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Something Like Alt Rock: July 13 Additions

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Summer is halfway through and the summer heat is just hitting Wisconsin - hot new tracks are still dropping as 2026 rolls on. Here's are this week's additions to our Alt Rock July list. (Music Videos or Visualizers includes this week.) Listen to them all on Spotify by clicking here  or checkout the videos below.  Fuel - Want It The Haunt - Worst Taste in Men Eva Under Fire - My Own Name Movements - Separate  Catch Your Breath - Rewind Lakeview w/ The Ghost Inside - Kill Me First Switchfoot - Broken Wings Sleep Theory - My Heart Citizen - I Can See You From Here Mayday Parade - Lying To Myself
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