Music Recommendations

Listening to "On My Way" and "Tamarin", the two new singles from the New Orleans duo The Convenience, is like discovering a relic from a bygone era of pop music.

The Alternative staff rank their 50 top releases of the year!

We hand out our 4 yearly awards for Album of the Year, Best Debut, Most Underrated Album, and Best Non LP.

Sarah joined our staff this at the beginning of the year as a photographer and writer, and from day 1 has been kicking ass and recommending great music. Check out her top 20 releases of 2018.

Henderson makes the case for his favorite releases of 2018 featuring Just Friends, Mitski, Slow Mass, Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt and more!

Danny Bateman and Tom White of New York band, Frog, spoke with us a bit about each of the tracks on their recent LP. Take a read through while you listen to these jams.

Photographer Kyle Musser wrote about his favorite LPs and EPs from 2018. So many gems in here, take a listen!

Take a quick read through a few of our favorite tracks of the month and then get streaming our Best of the Month Staff Spotify playlist which includes all those tracks and many more gems you might've missed!

The UK's Orchards recently dropped the new video for their track "Age of You" off their Losers/Lovers EP on Big Scary Monsters. "Age of You" is a good example of their sound which combines the rhythmic sharpness of mathier indie bands, with the smooth jazzy vocals of vocalist Lucy Evers.

Algernon Cadwallader never got huge, but they might be one of the most important bands of the 2000's because of how many kids they inspired to keep doing the thing. Their albums are getting repressed, and now's a perfect chance to get listening. Chris and a bunch of your favorite bands wrote about Algernon's influence on their lives.

The Alt Weekly Roundup is just what it sounds like, a recap of a few of our favorite releases of the week. Here’s a taste of a few of gems from this week.

Take a quick read through a few of our favorite tracks of the month and then get streaming our Best of the Month Staff Spotify playlist which includes all those tracks and many more!

The Alt Weekly Roundup is just what it sounds like, a recap of a few of our favorite releases of the week. Here’s a taste of a few of gems from this week.

We at The Alternative look forward to the Fest every year, and this year is special because we have 8 contributors (plus 2 new contributors) headed to cover the FESTivities. Leading off that coverage, we have a list of the bands you really need to see at Fest, and if you can't make it this year, these are still awesome bands you can take a listen to right now!

Whether it was on his boundary pushing TV show, his HBO special on mental health, or in his standup, Chris Gethard has always stayed true to his beliefs and his DIY ethos. Now Chris is back with a new book about losing well, and we were lucky enough to talk to him about that and more.