Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 23, 2026
    Guest host this week: Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers

    Playlist:
    • Nolan Hildebrand - portals II (everywhere and everything right now)
    • Assa’d Khoury - 'Ana jar
    • Yes - All hands on deck
    • Ariana Kim - Khanda jog
    • Alexander Elliot Miller - 1/1
    • Asher Gamedze - War (of maneuver)
    • Aerie Trio - Vancouver Island suite - 3. Tidepools
    • Lyle Workman - Razzle dazzle (drum intro)
    • Lyle Workman - Razzle dazzle
    • Real Mckenzies - A cannibal's lament
    • Aerie Trio - Vancouver Island suite - 4. The rainforest
    • Max Webster - In the context of the moon
    • Parlor Greens - Lions mane
    • Jeremy Young, Pauline Kim Harris - Electricity over Mirabel
    • Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind - Leo Watkin's rag
    • Amrita - Dimension jumping
    • Ensemble Infini - Free parking transcendental
    • Janel Leppin - Dizzy
    • Allison Cameron & Scott Thomson - Taproot
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 16, 2026

    Playlist:
    • tortoise - the suspension bridge at iguazi falls
    • umut ada and zebanis - sale marino
    • Angine De Poitrine - sarniezz
    • Cadence Weapon - honus
    • algiers - a murmur. a sign
    • agnes obel - riverside
    • jolie laide - saw the wave
    • sandro perri - back on love
    • Tony Soprano Band - professional athletics
    • Aldous Harding - what am i gonna do?
    • Chuck D and John Densmore - people are strangers
    • Vince Staples - do you know the devil
    • Los Pulpitos - sawfish
    • beast - satan
    • makaya mccraven - ox tales
    • hyldon & adrian younge - verâno no california (summertime)
    • 47soul - gamar
    • the harpoonist - good people
    • leaf rapids - paramjit's sonnet
    • jesse welles - masks off
    • jessica moss - fractals (truth 3)
    • swans - screen shot
    • pugs & crows - not my circus, not my monkeys
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 2, 2026

    Playlist:
    • copperhead - heaven
    • desertion trio - taboo
    • marvin pontiac - small car
    • funki porcini - this ain't the way to live
    • raleigh - intergalactic spasms
    • Chris Andrew - reverence
    • Chinese American Bear - all the people
    • carolyn mark - outskirts
    • Bodega System - smoker's toothpolish
    • bria salmena - hammer
    • hrsta - swallow's tail
    • nara's room - sketcher's
    • carolyn mark, nq arbuckle - officer down
    • kid koala - decades
    • Eleni Mandell - teardrop ghost
    • the lounge lizards - voice of chunk
    • The Neighborhood Kids - biddi bomb
    • Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed - lost soul
    • Julieta Brur - the coins have been tossed
    • niloo - surrender
    • The Great Lake Swimmers - endless detours
    • Confusion - jumps into the width
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 25, 2026

    Playlist:
    • la chiva gantiva - bombin
    • Jalen Ngonda - burning temptation
    • Brian Jackson - almost lost detroit
    • aja monet - hollyweird
    • Altin Gün - gel yanima gel
    • hanged up - ok let's go
    • glass beams - snake oil
    • shn shn - anomolies
    • postnamers - better angels
    • eric chenaux - however wildly we dream
    • la lom - santee alley
    • Art Schop - apology
    • little scream - dear leader
    • low - no comprende
    • marc ribot - rata de los patas (feat. astrid hadad)
    • massive attack - karmacoma
    • This House - man joke
    • peopling - body patient
    • KMVP - guilt free sleep
    • helene barbier - kindness in a cup
    • erika angell - never tried to run
    • Meredith Bates - 2nd incantation (silencing)
    • stitch - rubber man
    • jairus sharif - breakfast PY2
    • Picastro - fell the family tree
    • makaya mcccraven - ox tales
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 18, 2026

    Playlist:
    • exhaust - two years on welfare
    • three-layer cake - deliverdance
    • dwarfs of east agouza - double mothers
    • illuminati hotties - declutter
    • haramia tapes - pfunk
    • emiliana torrini - black water
    • Damaged Bug - the end of the war
    • brandon woody - never gonna run away
    • magella - you're always talking when no one can hear you
    • haley caliman - watercress
    • Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - time dilation w/aquakultre
    • hélėne barbier - you little nothing
    • isaiah collier & the chosen few - the time is now
    • jed arbour - parasite
    • florida bc - one, two and three eyes
    • gastr del sol - the seasons reverse
    • niloo - surrender
    • Angine De Poitrine - sarniezz
    • Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed - tuntel
    • Chuck D and John Densmore - the bones of my father
    • Astral Swans - no home left in the heart
    • thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra - sisters! brothers! small boats of fire are falling from the skies
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 11, 2026

    Playlist:
    • animal collective - walker
    • art bergmann - death of a siren
    • nina nastasia - happiness
    • afghan whigs - debonair
    • Claire Ozmun - routine
    • umut adan, zebànus - bogotà
    • Ishmael Ali - anathema
    • Julieta Brur - underwater
    • Eric Harland - ghosted
    • nomeansno - manic depression
    • deltron 3030 - virus
    • JabFung - skander
    • fat freddy's drop - wairunga blues
    • emiliana torrini & the colorist orchestra - smoke trails
    • exhaust - two years on welfare
    • myriam gendrom - the red dress
    • prefuse 73 - desperate demise
    • brimhiem - keep breeding diamonds
    • Kyle Morgan - ghost of a problem
    • marina herlop - shaolin mantis
    • Nora Kelly Band - the murder of mr. lucky
    • markus floats - c (feat fred moten)
    • Tony Soprano Band - off the mark
    • Kue Varo - religious prescription
    • daniele luppi & parquet courts - café flesh
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 4, 2026

    Playlist:
    • lettuce - gold tooth
    • The Gus Moberg Travesty - a man of the world
    • Sunglaciers - not yourself
    • bellbird - if you can't swim, dance
    • andrew bird - sisyphus
    • Damaged Bug - junk food
    • aja monet - hollyweird
    • dark orchard - it's been a pleasure
    • bedouine - solitary daughter
    • Silver Rein - lonesome bridge
    • mise en scene - days of our lives (instrumental)
    • Cryptozoologists - jumper cables
    • the neighborhood kids - fed up
    • gogol bordello - hieroglyph
    • This House - man joke
    • Aldous Harding - worms
    • dakh daughters - i want
    • cyril cyril & the meridian brothers - diablos de chuao
    • desertion trio - powers
    • kee avil - see my shadow
    • joni void - time one (with haco)
    • Ky - revolving door
    • badbadnotgood - time moves slow (feat sam herring)
    • dirty three - authentic celestial music
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 28, 2026

    Playlist:
    • alabaster deplume - what can it take
    • umut adan, zebanis - bogota
    • king hannah - the mattress
    • Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - time dilation (feat. aquakultre)
    • Bonnie Prince Billy - bride of the lion
    • big star - kangaroo
    • the weather station - robber
    • The Noise Who Runs - home front truths
    • Handsome Tiger - yama
    • tanya tagaq - teeth agape
    • Ishmael Ali - anathema
    • buzz' ayaz - efdji
    • Lala Lala - scammer
    • jolie laide - old collapser
    • jessica moss - is there room for all of it
    • carla bozulich - time of the preacher
    • Antonio Carlos, Jocafi, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - nunca mais
    • Aldous Harding - what am i gonna do?
    • adrian quesada - infinito
    • Jesca Hoop - designer citizen
    • bria salmena - stretch the struggle
    • charles spearin - rutting season
    • Adrian Younge - human absence
    • circuit des yeux - ride blind
    • land of kush - sand enigma
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 21, 2026
    Breaking The Tethers host, Andrew Waller, returns to mess with your ears!

    Playlist:
    • Sharon Minemoto - Rosebud (for Keiko Robson)
    • Triple Blind - A sly, sick age
    • Philip Glass - Symphony no. 12 "Lodger": I. Fantastic voyage
    • Parlor Greens - Francisco smack
    • Booker T & the MGs - Eleanor Rigby
    • Ian Boddy, Bernhard Wostheinrich - Scorpio
    • Bill Frisell - Hard times
    • Nick Fraser/Tony Malaby/Kris Davis - Sketch 46
    • Elifantree - Louder love
    • Lukas Ligeti - Immediate vector bosons
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 1
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 2
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 3
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 4
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 5
    • David Occhipinti - Six bagatelles 6
    • Soft Machine - Green books
    • Lithica - Vigor of the satanic mantra
    • Human Agony - Satanic immersion in goat piss
    • Passport - Ragtag and bobtail
    • The Early - Sand clock
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 14, 2026

    Playlist:
    • arto lindsay - tangles
    • astral swans - spiral
    • Angine De Poitrine - yor zarad
    • shabazz palaces - exotic bop
    • hanged up - broken reel
    • betty bonifassi - grizzly bear
    • badge epoque ensemble - the sound where my head was
    • KNEECAP - gael phonics
    • fat freddy's drop - waranga blues
    • bluffing - fragile ego
    • Jimmy Farace - backyard bobcat
    • grey divorce - knucklehead
    • Handsome Tiger - hiawatha
    • black country, new road - ants from up there
    • thus:owls - i weed the garden
    • UDEiGWE - prologue
    • c'mon tigre - the botanist
    • besnard lakes - feuds with guns
    • laura hickli - dark secrets
    • sunset rubdown - reappearing rat
    • raleigh - bridges
    • dominique fils-aime - echappée bell GMM
    • emily wells - could this really be the end
    • The Primary Phase Principle & Zeynep Sophia - lost in life? (found)
    • matana roberts - wild fire bare
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