Top Alternative Music Sites

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Discover new independent and mainstream alternative music every day. Read exclusive interviews and features with artists. New Alternative Music every day. Alternative Addiction talked with The Happy Fits' Calvi Langman and Ross Monteith last month about the band’s sophomore album, their online presence, learning songs backwards, and an overall crash course on the group. Linkin Park will...

DJ Michele Myers spins dance sets and hosts “Friday Night” weekly 6-9pm PT on KEXP. Michele’s inspiring, upbeat sets of soul, rock, pop, global and beats have rocked crowds across the country, as a radio host at KEXP in Seattle, WNYE in New York City, KALX at University of California Berkeley and at live events. Michele is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley. She grew up in Pennsylvania, California and...

From Glen Casada to screw-ups by David Briley, Kid Rock and more, here’s our annual list of blunders and bloopers. With all the talk about which monuments should be removed, here are some historical figures we should memorialize. Women told the Belmont Vision that the school's attendance policies discriminate against pregnant students. In lawsuit, guitar maker’s foundation says a piano dealer...

Earlier this spring, Laura Stevenson released her fifth studio record, The Big Freeze. She's currently on the road wrapping up a month-long tour where she's brought the beautiful new songs, as well as some of her older gems all around the US and Violet was at the Boston date to take pictures of the night! Read More. The whispery new Palehound track, the cruisin' new White Reaper song, and the...

Spectral Nights - alternative music, indie music, music reviews, new music, music blog, new bands. John Galm’s (Snowing, Street Smart Cyclists) Bad Heaven Ltd project features fellow Snowing man Ross Brazuk on bass, ex-TWIABP guitarist Tyler Bussey on guitar and Melissa Brain on drums. ‘strength’ is a one-and-a-half-minute-long song that will introduce you to their charmingly DIY sound....

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tablets and more by recommending alternatives to apps you already know. · Users of preinstalled web browsers on Windows 10 will no longer need to go out of their way to access text and web page translation. Microsoft has now integrated its Translator service...

The solution to music pollution. Official website for the indie music magazine with web-exclusive interviews, photos, reviews, mp3s, videos, music news and more. So, 2020 was quite an uneventful year wasn’t it? Nothing much of note happened. It was pretty boring. But at least there were some decent records to liven things up. This is the intro to our Best Albums of 2020 list I wish I could be...

Live365 is the easiest and least expensive way to create a legal internet radio station as well as the best place to discover and listen to thousands of free stations from every genre of music and talk . Live365 covers your listeners in the USA (through SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), in Canada (through SOCAN and Re:Sound), and in the UK (through PPL and PRS for Music). On mobile, home...

Guy Clark’s incredible music and life encapsulated in a new documentary premiering at 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Receiving a personalized video message from your artist is way better than getting an autograph or selfie. Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey on their new album, giving back, and generally being a big-hearted punk. The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney Unveils ‘Omaha Hotel’ from Upcoming Album, The...

It's the #XPN5050. 50 Years Of Music In 50 Weeks! Every Saturday afternoon, we’ll take a walk into the musical time machine, digging into one year’s record releases. Tune in on June 8 for 2013 and check out Spotify playlists from past weeks. The complete #XPNFest line-up for 2019 features Hozier, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Dawes, and more! Check out the complete line-up here and grab your passes...

Recording Studio. Backline Rental. Venue, Home of KeesingLIVE! Record your hit song or album in one of Jamaica's best recording studios. Bands and artistes are welcome to rehearse in our rehearsal facilities. We offer a variety of PA (sound) systems to fit every need. No event is too small or too large and we provide our services islandwide. We have the largest inventory of backline equipment...

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Jeff Walls, co-founder, guitarist and songwriter for suburban Atlanta college-rock favorites Guadalcanal Diary, died on Wednesday after battling a very rare form of pulmonary hypertension that only can be cured through a double lung transplant. Murray Attaway, the band’s frontman, announced the news on Facebook. continue reading ». The Cure last night opened its five-night run of Disintegration...

An award-winning public affairs program providing information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. AR in my view is an oasis in a wasteland of media vapidity. Hell, if there were justice or reason you would have a budget and the resources to rival the AM gasbag-hate mongers.

Explore alternative music notation systems that improve upon traditional music notation. Learn how a chromatic staff is better. Get resources & software. Traditional notation obscures the interval relationships between notes. For example, a major scale (a series of whole steps and half steps, as shown above) appears as a regular sequence of notes, while a whole tone scale (a series of identical...

Alternate Music Press features the latest music news, reviews, interviews, commentary, pictures, and much more. Released this month via Onearth Records, “Dünya” (Earth) is the newest offering from the 47-year-old musician, born Arkin Allen in 1966 in Bursa, and known in Turkey and around the world for his signature blend of Sufi music traditions with contemporary electronic tunes. In a recent...