2023 iHeartRadio ALTer EGO: Meet The Lineup With These Surprising Facts
October 18, 2022
The 2023 iHeartRadio ALTer EGO Presented By Capital One is returning to Los Angeles on January 14th, 2023 with an iconic lineup of some of the biggest names in Alternative Rock, and it's set up to be an unforgettable night.
Taking over the stage at the Kia Forum this year are Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White, Muse, Fall Out Boy, Phoenix, CHVRCHES, Beach Weather and Rosa Linn, and it's all hosted by Woody of iHeartRadio ALT 98.7's nationally syndicated "The Woody Show."
Alternative and Rock iHeartRadio stations will broadcast the event live in their local markets, and on iHeartRadio.com and the iHeartRadio app.
Get to know all about our 2023 iHeartRadio ALTer EGO lineup with the surprising facts below.
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Before they were Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band went by the name “Tony Flow and the Majestic Masters of Mayhem”
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have won six Grammy awards.
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In addition to being an awesome bassist, Flea is also an actor and has appeared in the movies 'The Big Lebowski', 'Back to the Future Part II and Part III', 'My Own Private Idaho', and 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'.
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Fall Out Boy used to perform in intimate venues under the name Saved Latin. The band's name is a reference to the Bill Murray movie ‘Rushmore’. Max Fischer, played by Jason Schwartzman, asks in the movie, "I saved Latin, what did you ever do?"
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Patrick Stump first auditioned to be Fall Out Boy’s drummer, but once his broad vocal range and talent were discovered, he was chosen to be the lead singer.
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Joe Trohman, the band's lead guitarist and co-founder, is publishing a book. The book, ‘None Of This Rocks’, will explore Trohman's upbringing and evolution as a musician.
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In 1991, Jack White started working as an upholstery apprentice. Now, he owns his own upholstery shop in Nashville: Third Man Upholstery.
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Jack White started out in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer before founding the White Stripes with his then-wife Meg White in 1997.
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Jack White was once interviewed by his childhood hero, Buzz Aldrin, for 'Interview Magazine.' He cited the astronaut as a huge inspiration.
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Muse once planned to use jetpacks to fly onto the stage at Wembley Stadium ahead of one of their shows but were forced to change plans due to health and safety regulations.
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When he’s not touring with the band, frontman Matt Bellamy is a sheep farmer back home in England and even had around 160 sheep at one time.
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In 2010, Matt Bellamy was named the Guinness World Record holder for breaking the most guitars on one tour, smashing 140 of the instruments during Muse’s “Absolution” Tour.
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Before Phoenix’s lineup was solidified in the late ‘90s, guitarist Chris Mazzalai’s brother Laurent Brancowitz was in a short-lived band called Darlin’ with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. When Brancowitz left to join permanently join Mazzalai, Thomas Mars, and Deck d’Arcy, Bangalter and Homem-Christo formed Daft Punk.
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All of the members of Pheonix were friends in school and the band started out as a garage band playing out of Mars’s house in the suburbs of Paris.
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Frontman Mars is married to filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who directed 2003’s ‘Lost in Translation’ which included the Phoenix song “Too Young” on the soundtrack.
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Have you ever wondered about the “V” in CHVRCHES? While pronounced like churches, the band got the unique spelling from a friend who designed a logo using a Roman “U.” There was also already an American band going by Churches at the time, so they had to adapt.
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Lead singer Lauren Mayberry completed an undergraduate law degree and earned a master’s degree in journalism, even winning an award in 2010 for a story on the hygiene of body piercing.
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You may know Iain Cook as the multi-talented guitar and synth player, but he also has worked as a film and television composer, crafting works for TV series and documentaries as well as feature-length and short films.
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Beach Weather is an alternative/pop rock band from the US founded in 2015.
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Their song “Sex, Drugs, Etc.” went viral in 2022 on TikTok as a trend.
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Lead Vocalist, Nick Santino, was in the band A Rocket To The Moon from 2006-2013 before starting Beach Weather.
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Linn is from Armenia and represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy with the song "Snap". She finished at 20th place in the grand final.
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Rosa Linn went viral on TikTok with the song “Snap” and was signed to Columbia Records soon after.
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She started to learn the piano at age six and at 11 she was songwriting.
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