There is one thing to know about War Honey, and it is clear even before pressing play on their third EP. There are four songs on All You’ll Ever Be Good For and two of them are instrumental tracks, th...

In a Periscope video (remember those?) after Jeremy Corbyn’s upset victory to become the head of the UK Labour Party, Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman tearfully and drunkenly articulated the worldvie...

Kicksie must have sensed that her brand of fizzy, quirky pop-punk would hey stale prior to the release of 2020’s All My Friends, as she began incorporating new textures into her palette on that record...

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Shobijin snuck into existence quietly. Their debut EP, which is not self-titled but is actually called self-titled, was dropped with little fanfare in early January, yielding no prerelease singles. Th...

The staff put together an alphabetical list of albums from the first six months of 2025 that we think deserve some more attention!

The return of New Orleans alt rockers Baby in the 90s and the noir-ish new video from The Noisy were some of our favorites this week!

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring a pair of EPs, including Force Model's excellently noisy EP BARRICADE and The Republic of Wolves' frontman Mason Maggio’s solo EP under the name Souvenee...

Now that the hubbub around fifth-wave emo is over, it’d be easy for the genre to go the same way as the similarly-minded hyperpop: sand off the stranger edges to make the sound more palatable, and les...

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The Alternative's New Music Friday Playlist. All our staff's favorite new music from this week! Now on Spotify and Apple Music.

“It’s a little bit of a new thing,” Avery Friedman sings at the top of “New Thing,” the title track of her debut LP. It’s the first intelligible lyric on the album–the sub-two-minute opener, “Into,” h...

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“Egyptian Football,” “You Can’t Live There Forever,” “The World Is Not a Beautiful Place and I Am Afraid to Die”—the song titles alone give you an idea of what to expect from FHMY on The World You Gre...

There are a few labels I trust wholeheartedly. When New Morality Zine announced they’d signed Last Days of Heaven, comparing them to Mojave 3 and My Bloody Valentine, I was doubly interested. The proj...

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The Bandcamp bio for Eversame’s sophomore LP, LOVE ENDS FAST, AND NEVER, highlights the ways that “we have improved our sound from the first one, blending alt-rock and shoegaze,” promising the album will be “heavier and more refined.” From the first minute of opener “glimmer,” the Slovakian emo band makes good on that promise. The riff that introduces the record is monstrous, a thick slab of noise that rattles like the heaviest moments on Siamese Dream or 12th House Rock, and when the vocals come in, they’re reduced to runny smears caked in feedback. The wide-ranging, atmospheric emo sound Eversame cultivated on 2023’s tell me where the flowers are was, in hindsight, only practice.

The Bandcamp bio for Eversame’s sophomore LP, LOVE ENDS FAST, AND NEVER, highlights the ways that “we have improved our sound from the first one, blending alt-rock and shoegaze,” promising the album w...

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