Artist Interview / EP Review: Elliott Green – ‘Kintsugi’
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by The Editor
1w ago
  Of course I know that it rains in Seattle. What I didn’t know until I visited the city for the first time is how it rains in Seattle. The city’s rain comes subtly, not in a downpour. The moisture in the air seeps into your clothes, forming into beads on the nape of your neck without a noise. The precipice of precipitation is more real than the actual thing. The whole city has an omnipresent mist like nothing else I’ve ever felt, and it creeps into most of Seattle’s best musical exports — David Bazan, Damien Jurado, Carrie Brownstein, Chris Cornell. You can hear it in the abstract brill ..read more
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Photography: Arlo Parks with Chloe George
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by The Editor
1w ago
Parks is currently out on her North American tour for her record My Soft Machine with support from Chole George. Check out Lindsy’s photos from the Nashville stop at Marathon Music Works. Chloe George    Arlo Parks  _ Lindsy Carrasquillo | @lindsy_carr The Alternative is ad-free and 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us produce more content and promote more great new music, please consider donating to our Patreon page, which also allows you to receive sweet perks like free albums and The Alternative merch. Share The post Photography: A ..read more
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Album Review: Carpool – ‘My Life In Subtitles’
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by The Editor
1w ago
From first listen, there’s a sense that My Life In Subtitles is Carpool’s swing-for-the-fences record. These songs are dense in the best way possible, with layers that never become too overlapped, bleeding into each at the right moments and pulling back to highlight an idea at others. Carpool’s last full-length, Erotic Nightmare Summer, certainly established them as one of the more exciting emo bands of the moment—a band that could not only write catchy tunes, but could also absolutely shred, with songs like “Beauty School Dropout” where the hook comes from the guitar riffs as much as the voc ..read more
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Artist Interview: Spaced
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by The Editor
1w ago
After a few years of singles and EPs, hardcore five-piece Spaced signed to the legendary Revelation Records. Today, they release This Is All We Get, an eight-track record that places the band on the level of some of Rev’s most iconic groups. This is an album that never lets up and never slows down. The songs they dropped last year were some of their most melodic, but nothing on This Is All We Get is ever less than absolutely scorching. If this is all they ever get, Spaced makes it count. We spoke with vocalist Lexi Reyngoudt, guitarist Donny Arthur, and bassist John Vaughan about th ..read more
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The Alt Weekly Roundup (3/18)
The Alternative
by The Editor
1w ago
The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior. Autoignition – This Is Moving Forward In a couple of weeks I’m going to see Koyo, Anxious, One Step Closer, and Stateside. Autoignition would fit perfectly on that bill. Their earlier material had a bit more melodic hardcore to it, but on This Is Moving Forward, they’ve gone full pop-punk, and they do it exceptionally well. There’s a bit of The Movelife i ..read more
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Pittsburgh’s Mr. Roboto Project is Raising Funds to Purchase the Venue Building
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by The Editor
2w ago
If a band you love has ever been covered here at The Alternative, there’s a near 100% chance that, if they have stopped in Pittsburgh on a tour, they played at Mr. Roboto Project. It’s the main—though not sole—home for shows booked by Don’t Let The Scene Go Down On Me, who also helped keep things alive during the pandemic by booking all of The Alternative’s streaming sets. A safe, sober space run fully by volunteers, Roboto is the exact type of venue that needs to survive as corporations increasingly stick their sinister tendrils into every aspect of daily life.  In order to do just that ..read more
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We Need More Music Industry Investment in Mental Health
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by The Editor
2w ago
photograph by Jay Leiby In the fast-paced world of the music industry, creativity collides with commerce. The spotlight often overshadows the silent mental health struggles faced by both the artists and the executives. The industry has been prone to exploitation, from onerous contracts to owning master recordings or disputes over royalties and payments from streaming services. For 20+ years, I was on the front lines of seeing those consequences affect many, both within and creators in the industry. That continues to take a toll both monetarily and mentally for everyone involved. Thankfully, m ..read more
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Video Premiere: Early Day Miners – “Amends”
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by The Editor
2w ago
Almost immediately upon forming in 1999, Early Day Miners have been a canonical slowcore band. From 2000 to 2011 they reliably pumped out seven LPs of languid, terse, and tense indie rock; their sound fell somewhere between the expansive minimalism of Low and the endlessly unfolding post-rock of frequent tourmates (and onetime collaborators) Unwed Sailor. The band reunited in 2018, dropping a double single that year and an EP the following year, but at long last six years later Early Day Miners is gearing up to release a new full-length. It’s called Outside Lies Magic, and it’s out at th ..read more
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The Alt Weekly Roundup (3/11)
The Alternative
by The Editor
2w ago
The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior. Bleary Eyed – “2 True” The Philly shoegaze scene has been extensively documented—and brought to life with this past weekend’s Slide Away festival—and with good reason; perhaps the most exciting band in that orbit right now is Bleary Eyed, whose blown-out take on the genre is a nice reminder that in many ways the original shoegaze bands were growing out of psychedel ..read more
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Album Review: Bleachers – ‘Bleachers’
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by The Editor
2w ago
The best records, the ones that stick with you through the years, are the ones that grow with you, revealing a little more with every spin. Jack Antonoff’s work as Bleachers kind of functions in the opposite way: instead of getting better with each listen, every pass through reveals the emptiness beneath these tunes a bit more. While the latest self-titled Bleachers record certainly feels more deliberate and intentional than Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night—which felt like a record Antonoff made simply because he was under contract, like a student half-assing an assignment—the outcome i ..read more
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