Read an exclusive excerpt of Andrew Sacher's upcoming book 'Emo Revival' ahead of its release early next month!

Pinegrove are gonna blow up and when they do you’ll be glad you got in on the bottom floor. Pinegrove made their way through the Mantua Yacht Club, not before The Alternative snapped some shots of ...

Interview with Dane founder of Jetsam Flotsam! Jetsam Flotsam is a Chicago area indie record label. We talk about what […] The Alternative began as a radio show in 2009. Our website launched in 2014.

February has seen an insane amount of releases. The Alternative has been involved with a blinding amount but here is even more to start listening to as this month comes to a close. Including: ...

2022 has been a great year for new music and for The Alternative. Although it has gotten harder and harder to run a music blog, with the help of our supporters on Patreon, we were able to not only ...

2023! Our 10th Annual Album of the Year List and Yearly Awards! We made it! When we started The Alt and these awards, we did it because we wanted to reward the music that we truly felt was the best of ...

It’s summer, it’s a million degrees, and it’s exactly halfway through 2025. You know what that means: it’s time for The Alt’s mid-year list! Rather than the traditional list of our favorite albums of ...

In a year of disappointing blockbuster pop records, the top dog has just come in to show them how it’s done. Taylor Swift’s twelfth studio album, her fifth this decade, is the year’s most ...

Our 10 favorite albums of the year, along with our award winners for Best Debut, Most Underrated, Best Non-LP, and of course Album of the Year. Not everyone is going to be happy with the placement of ...

As the fourth quarter of 2024 opens its chilly arms and we are embraced by the spooky and grim segment of the year, what better music than experimental gothy sounds to set the energy? The music of A ...

As a year, 2020 has been bad, and not bad like it didn’t live up to our expectations, bad like it was the worst pandemic in US history with spiraling unemployment, live music shut down, and our awful ...

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