Medium Build and Ken Yates played at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia on a slightly chilly beautiful fall night.

Nothing beats a Fall night on the couch scared silly by a great film, but let’s be honest, all horror movies are not created equal, and nothing is worse than wasting your time on a worthless movie.

The emotional palette of Tired Of Tomorrow zones in on are vivid contradictions between the doleful real-life experiences Palermo draws from and the bright hues he forges from them — and sometimes ...

Star Funeral brings dark and dreamy vibes in grungy new song "In The Dark." The Alternative began as a radio show in 2009. Our website launched in 2014. We like to discuss the music that we love.

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 ...

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 ...

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 DJ booth looks like a lonely place sometimes. You might be surrounded by an admiring crowd, but the weight of the entire performance often falls on your shoulders alone — no drummer to back you up ...

The Alternative began as a radio show in 2009. Our website launched in 2014. We like to discuss the music that we love.

I Was Shot in the Heart!,' the debut from The Male Pattern, is a concept album about masculinity and the horror of suburbia.

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 ...