A ghastly, fluid mixture of genuine suffering and delirium with unproven skill and raw craft, all combining to form: Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A film so thoroughly, beautifully brutal it sets the ...

Glab reviews a she's green gig in Iowa with support from smush, Witches Exist, and Stelladrone. It was a good time.

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Premiering the first track off Ever Elsewhere's debut self-titled EP. They're a Ontario band influenced by Jimmy Eat World, Transit, and The Dangerous Summer so if those are your jams you definitely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It’s no doubt that emo is prone to going through trends and phases: weedmo, sparklepunk, emo pop, twinkledaddies, emocore revival, basement emo, to name a few. Fifth wave/post emo was yet another ...

Review: Turnover – ‘Down on Earth’ Posted: 1st June, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is ad-free and 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us produce more content and ...

A large part of what makes Home Is Where’s fifth-wave emo via Neutral Milk Hotel and Bob Dylan so unique and fantastic is Bea MacDonald’s poetically cutting lyrics—lines that immediately jump out at ...

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 ...