alternative
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Gorillaz compiles a bunch of damn good singles to make a damn good album.
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Oliver Tree’s debut album proves that, beyond the bowl cut and JNCO jeans, there lies serious musical potential.
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Eat the Elephant gets off to a strong start, but begins tanking in quality at the midway point.
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A Perfect Circle is back in true form with this politically and religiously-charged single, “The Doomed.” The alt-metal outfit is at work on what will be their first album in 14 years; it’s due out next year via BMG.
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The 20th anniversary reissue of Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer is coming out later this month, containing of course a remastered version of the album, as well as a bonus disc of b-sides and previously unreleased material. The long passed-over “I Promise” is one of the three unreleased tracks
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Miya Folick, the latest signee of Terrible Records, comes through with a single that rekindles the spirit of ’90s alt-rock and announces her as a singer-songwriter worth keeping an eye on. The track will appear on Miya’s sophomore EP, Give It to Me, which is due out sometime in
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With “S.A.D,” Kirin J. Callinan delivers a cheesy, industrial-tinged ballad about drugs that may lack the sex appeal of previous single “Bravado,” but is still too slick and weird for me to resist. Kirin’s new album, also titled Bravado, is out June 9 via Terrible Records.
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A bittersweet duet off Damage and Joy, the first album in nearly two decades from seminal alt rock group The Jesus and Mary Chain, out March 24 via Artificial Plastic.
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In this video, I’m responding to an ignorant piece of clickbait being passed off as music writing that paints all alternative genres–but specifically alternative rock–as a “safe space” for whites. Our writer fails to address the plethora of alt genres where that’s obviously not the case,
