Music Recommendations

Check out the video for Hot Moms Club's sunny new track, "DD."

Have you watched the new episode of Alt TV yet??? Its our new 2 hour internet tv show. Music videos. Interviews. Other good things. Its incredible.

It feels like hardcore is having a moment, and it doesn’t seem like 2022 will be slowing down in any way, so it would only be right for The Alternative to try to catalog some of the best new tracks in the genre. Introducing Hugo Reyes' new column 'Step 2 Rhythm', where you can find all sweet new hardcore and punk rock that you may have missed each month.

New Year, New Tunes, right? The beginning of a new year means that there are countless possibilites for what can be coming down the pike and one of our favorite things to do at The Alternative is to speculate about what we'll be getting as the year unfolds. Our staff put together a list of our most anticipated albums of 2022!

Keegan Bradford's round-up of the best new punk, hardcore, and metal from Asia is back with a top-tier split from Taiwanese grindcore icons, environmentalist crustpunk from Tokyo, Indonesian progressive power metal, and beatdown from way out in northwest China.

An ant on helium writing music reviews and recommending music, in this case, 10 new reviews of some incredible recent releases.

With 'Under Soil and Dirt', the popular debut LP by The Story So Far, turning 10 years old, its a perfect time to look back on the history of one of the biggest pop punk bands of the last decade.

In a run of three albums and a split, One Man Army put out some of the best punk of the early 2000s, but they do not seem to be remembered that way, possibly because they music is mainly absent from streaming services. Aaron provides a fan's guide to what made One Man Army so special.

Our staff put together our list of our most anticipated albums of 2021! Take a look and start to get hyped for all of these sick albums we have coming this year.

Leafing, a Brooklyn mathy indie band who summon references to artists like Prawn, Palm, and TTNG, released their first single in December, and upon first listen I was engrossed in their energetic sound and rhythmic vibe. Today, they released the 2nd single from the band's upcoming self-titled debut which is just as exciting and intriguing as their first.

Despite how exhausted I am by 2020, I am excited to share my top 20 albums of 2020. The best albums of the worst year.

In the latest edition of his shoegaze column, Eli Enis gives a thorough review of the new Nothing album and recommends recent shoegaze releases from Clearbody, MJ Guider, STAR, and more.

The Beach Boys holiday album was their 7th release, with 5 original songs and 7 traditional carols. It was released in 1964, and it has been called "one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era.” Tina looks back on this classic holiday album.

The Alternative Staff's 75 Favorite Releases of the Year + our winners of the 8th Annual The Alt Music Awards!!!

Although the height of Echosmith's fame was years ago, the inclusion of their cover of the Christmas ballad "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" in Netflix's film Operation Christmas Drop has caused an uptick in their popularity. Tina expounds on this in this brief write-up.