Music Recommendations

All our staff's favorite new music from this week!! Now available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Elizabeth previews this weekend's Pitchfork Fest with 8 acts that you absolutely must see if you attend.

Our staff put our heads together and compiled our list of our favorite records of 2024 so far! It's been a wild 6 months full of awesome releases, but these are the ones that stuck out most to us. Check out our picks and find your new favorite band.

The Alt staff's list of the 55 best releases of 2023 & the winner of the yearly awards for Album of the Year, Best Debut, Most Underrated, our Fan Vote, and Best Non LP.

Nominate your favorite albums for our 2nd Annual Fan's Choice Award. 6 nominees will be announced on Dec 12th and the winner will be picked by our Patreon supporters. Can't wait to see what awesome release takes the prize this year.

Simply put — these songs RIP. These are a handful of horror film soundtracks I adore, ranging from psychological and slasher to the so-bad-they’re-good classics. Dive in and grab your costume, we only get these treats once a year, and check out my accompanying playlist!

David of realoemo stops by to list off 20 of his favorite bands harkening back to the earlier emo sound.

Four of our contributors (with different levels of Swift fandom) got together to discuss the phenomenon that is Taylor Swift: everything from the re-releases, to "Reputation", to her relative apoliticism.

Hope and Jazmin spoke to the founders of The Pretty Cult, Camp Punksylvania, My Grito, Gender Amplified, Fresh Meat Festival, #blkgrlswurld ZINE, and So Dreamy Music Festival in this feature that promotes creative companies run by people from marginalized communities.

Grace attended Pitchfork Fest in Chicago last week, and put together a review of all 3 epic days of great music and festival eccentricities along with a sweet playlist of the best songs she heard at the fest. Check out her review below while you listen to the highlights.

Grace lays out the must-see sets at Pitchfork Fest 2023, featuring Soul Glo, Palm, MJ Lenderman, Vagabon, and more!

Zac speaks with Chris and Matt of Everyone Asked About You about the band's legacy 20 years on.

2023 has been full of great new music, so there's definitely some awesome releases you missed. Don't worry though, our staff put together a list of the 30+ best releases of 2023 so far! Take a listen and find some gems.

'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here', while not nearly as outwardly anguished or thunderous as 1992’s 'Dirt', still stands as a much more refined version of the band. In some ways, Alice in Chain’s fifth album was their second run at writing a sophomore album as a band, and probably the more successful of the two. It holds up.

Hope reviews the new single from Brooklyn based indie rockers Big Bliss.