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 ...

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: ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The title Pyrophonics is a play on words that depicts what the album explores thematically as Mohager delves into himself and expresses his struggles through the lyrics. “Getting the songs out is a ...

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 ...

Album Review: Greet Death – ‘Die In Love’ Posted: 27th June, 2025 by The Alt Editing Staff With a name like Greet Death, it kind of goes without saying that the Michigan rockers’ catalog can be a bit ...

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 ...