Alternative To What?

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How many episodes does Alternative To What? have?

The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.

Alternative To What? episodes:

April 10, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode April 9, 2026
Playlist:
leif vollebekk - mississippi
beverly glenn-copeland - la vita
beth gibbons - reaching out
dirty projectors - break thru
fly pan am - each ether
nina nastasia - this is what it is
jeff parker - go away
vera sola - the colony
Raleigh - stranger strangers
ali.ni - shalala
Lala Lala - scammer
Tinariwen - sagherat assani
Silver Rein - premonition
Cryptozoologists - cursed necklace
The Ocean Greys - heaven is there for those that pay
ahmed moneka - treed trooh
andrew bird - bloodless
kazdoura - ya banat
Bill Callahan - empathy
king hannah - state trooper
land of kush - bone mass III
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April 03, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode April 2, 2026
Guest host this week: Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers

Playlist:
Bob Wiseman - Bhopal (driftnet plan)
Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Maktrismos
Kathy Kennedy - Howooh
A.N.I.M.A.L., Lemmy - Highway to hell
Cameron Graves - Black narcissus
Mike Johnson - Boys with toys
Triple Blind - Z interlude
Tinariwen - Erghad afewo
Swingin’ Blackjacks - Misery train
Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Time dilation
Toninato & Thiessen - I am suffocating
Medhat Saleh - El millionerat
Volker Lankow - Lt. Michael Collins' traum hinterm mond
Bill Frisell - In my dreams
The Early - Hill forms
Henri Texier - Varech
Joane Hétu - Un ideal
Forever Einstein - My friends made fun of my pants
Géraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - Les grands departs
Antibalas - La ceiba
Ishmael Ali - Fear chased hope in tight circles
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March 27, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode March 26, 2026
Playlist:
Oranje - styrofoam
alabaster deplume - the best things in the world
animal collective - time skiffs
funki porcini - on
kassa overall - so happy
kee avil - felt
kevin breit - yearning soul rebellion
Altin Gün - gel yanima gel
Bonnie Prince Billy - strange trouble
Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - mirror era
Ora Cogan - the smoke
l'rain - heavy (but not in wait)
Bitter Fictions - aquamarine
nick cave - night raid
Various Artists - current union tm - dukkha coca
lightning dust - devoted to
dirty three - rising below
This House - man joke
ruthie foster - war pigs
florida bc - cults
king hannah and sharon van etten - big swimmer
Ishmael Ali - everness
shabazz palaces - swerve....the reeping of all that
michael feuerstack - mind and body
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March 20, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode March 19, 2026
Playlist:
algiers - blood
makaya mccraven - a slice of the top
Joane Hétu - elle a dit oui
fat freddy's drop - roland
anika - i go to sleep
The Gus Moberg Travesty - neptune
The Great Lake Swimmers - wrong, wrong, wrong
the tiger lillies - crack of doom
black country new road - mary
c'mon tigre - the botanist
peopling - catatonia ppl and places
Antibalas - la cieba
boogát - eres hecha para mí
SHY FRiEND - smut
beams - glory box
sunset rubdown - reappearing rat
nash the slash - bandstand boogie
nov3l - sign on the line
Hélène Barbier - lapin
dystoh - come and go
budos band - liar of 1000 serpents
fantastic negrito - plastic hamburgers
Oranje - sequel
ndox electrique - je ne veux pas subir l'injustice coloniale
Nightmares on Wax - starwood bound (feat. sadie walker)
hrsta - swallow
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March 13, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode March 12, 2026
interview with Dolly Wiggler artist Jocelyn Mah

Playlist:
african head charge - no, don't follow fashion
gang of four - damaged goods
henry kaiser/anthony pirog/jeff sipe - torch shadows
esmerine - snow day for lhasa
The Slackers - soldier dub
Los Pulpitos - kurumbi
Raleigh - stranger strangers
erika angell - never tried to run
jeff parker - get dressed
Dry Cleaning - blood
Cain Culto - chiquilinda
buzz' ayaz - efdji
marc ribot with astrid hadad - ratas de los patas
charles spearin - my city of starlings
.idk. - PO feat. black thought
colin stetson - lord i just can't keep from crying
hellenica - through the night
cyril cyril & meridian brothers - diablos de chuao
edwin starr - war
empanadas ilegales - danza del vampiro
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La La Band - american motor over smolders
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March 06, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode March 5, 2026
Playlist:
lese majesty - forerunner foray
Bennett Mitchell - rearranging
Heaven For Real - common breath
Dry Cleaning - evil evil idiot
talib kweli, seun kuti, cassper nyovest - nat turner
algiers - blood
sea of lettuce - oh my!
exhaust - two years on welfare
fantastic negrito - chocolate samurai
Lettuce - storm coming
The Radiation Flowers - junkie for tragedy
angine de poitrine - sahardneih
public enemy - give peace a damn
emeliana torrini - black water
hyldon & adrian younge - jenipapo robot
Night Teacher - world too close
black country new road - mary
Pulgas - alex joseph kulick
gastr del sol - camoufleur
gillian moranz - i hear you signed a treaty
Sessa - dodoi
glass beams - snake oil
nina nastasia - this is what it is
haramia tapes - harper
meggie lennon - mind games
knitting - the thrill
efrim manuel manuck - pissing stars
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February 27, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode February 26, 2026
Playlist:
anika - i go to sleep
avey tare & panda bear - april and the phantom
Peach Panic - dark place
niloo - valentines in kamakura
la banda chuska - ratas y mapaches
beverly glenn copeland - la vita
charles spearin - portrait of the artist as a tuesday
natalie bergman - lonely road
badbadnotgood feat. colin stetson - confessions pt. II
Antibalas - la cieba
dakh daughters - i want
keiyaA - be quiet!
deltron 3030 feat. mike patton - city rising from the ashes
kid koala - decades
emiliana torrini - black water
Los Pulpitos - kurumbi
dominique fils-aime - echappée belle
funki porcini - this ain't the way to live
Langhorne Slim - stealin' time
Bebel Gilberto - tanto tempo
Joelton Mayfield - red beam
Heaven For Real - common breath
rebekah higgs - parables
The Gus Moberg Travesty - a man of the world
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February 20, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode February 19, 2026
Playlist:
s.g. goodman - space and time
amythyst kiah - hangover blues
nihloxica - baganga
savk - the hangman
Lettuce - gold tooth
the torchettes - mean charlene
Odonis Odonis - we are gods
dj shadow feat. run the jewels - nobody speak
cymande - chasing an empty dream
sargeant x comrade - nosy neighbour
sonny sharrock - who does she hope to be?
The Mbira Renaissance Band - zvichapera
makaya mccraven - ox tales
keleketla!, Coldcut, the watts prophets - freedom groove
Sudan Archives - heaven knows
angine de poitrine - tohogd
hrsta - ...and we climb
jolie laide - old collapser
melvin gibbs - holy ground (feat. kokayi)
dj logic - hypnotic
Pulgas - following you
Martinez/Roach - i get along without you very well
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February 13, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode February 12, 2026
Playlist:
gang of four - damaged goods
african head charge - no don't follow fashion
animal collective - goalkeeper
arto lindsay - the prize
múm - the colorful stabwound
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - swollen thankles
beast - satan
Oranje - styrofoam
didon - a far away land
sons of kemet - my queen is harriet tubman
Bebel Gilberto - sem contenção
c'mon tigre - the botanist
starpainter - rattlesnake dream
y la bamba - rios sueltos
Bellbird - firefly pharology
Melody's Echo Chamber - eyes closed
Bennett Mitchell - who do i talk to?
Sabine McCalla - two of hearts
combo daguerre - les assassins
The Gus Moberg Travesty - that was our city
Dry Cleaning - evil evil idiot
D.F. - exhaust
Karneef - inside matches the outside
dirty projectors - up in hudson
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February 06, 2026Alternative To What? - Episode February 5, 2026
Guest-host this week: Andrew Waller from Breaking The Tethers!

Playlist:
Horacee Arnold - Orchards of Engedi
Krakhouse - We go blam blam
Jeff Tweedy - Western clear skies
Ligation - Reflection
Hoven Droven - Arepolska
Dave Stryker - Pretzel logic
Upsilon Acrux - When Satan ruled the earth, Jesus made my fish tank boil
Lee Mason - Hot pants
Miles Davis - The mask
Great Lake Swimmers - One more dance around the sun
Rick Parker and Li Daiguo - A steady heartbeat is the sound of death
Carolyn Trowbridge - Chopin's seance
Jon Anderson - Owner of a lonely heart
Radiohead - Go to sleep
Chris Cochrane, Collapsible Shoulder Big Band - Nterdependence
Gilles Laval - Unsaved
Richard Thompson - Long dead love
Daniela Casa - Prospettive avveniristiche
Bellbird - Eternity perspective
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FAQs about Alternative To What?:

How many episodes does Alternative To What? have?

The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.