Alternative To What?

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The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.

Alternative To What? episodes:

November 21, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode November 20, 2025
Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers, fills in again!

Playlist:
Bobby Hutcherson - Welcome to the wind
Return to Darkness - Texas BBQ
Marconi Union - Weightless, pt. 4
Genesis - Wot gorilla?
Brandon Seabrook - Emotional cleavage
Soft Machine - Out-bloody-rageous
Lal & Mike Waterson - To make you stay
Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Riversong
Karneef - Cyber criminal
Donald Byrd - Flight time
Elvis Costello - Our little angel
Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Aphantasia QBB
Pugs & Crows - Wind up flying away
Passport - Madhouse
Ostrofi - You're getting closer
Trey Gunn - Traverse
Amir ElSaffar - Autumn comes
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November 14, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode November 13, 2025
Guest host this week (and next): Andrew Waller, host of Breaking The Tethers (who kept forgetting what show he was on! Bad Andrew!)

Playlist:
Sonny Sharrock - Portrait of Linda in three colors, all black
Rafiq Bhatia - At midnight on a black sand beach, the raging tides begin to speak
Pogues - A pistol for Paddy Garcia
Heather McKay - Eleven reasons why
Jeff Tweedy - Western clear skies
Son Volt - When the wheels don't move
Homicyde - Until I cease to be
SANAM - Tatayoum
Rich Brown - Nyaeba (the griot)
Forever Einstein - Bye, bye, Barbie
Noam Lemish - Song for Milly
Guapo - Five suns I
Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet - I love you
Banzai - Vomit ritual
Volker Lankow - Residual silence
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - A body to match
Danny Thompson - Crusader
Rémy Bélanger de Beauport - Mi
Neal Miner - Night owls
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November 07, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode November 6, 2025
Playlist:
haramia tapes - harper
Al qasar - desse barama
harriet tubman - five points
carla bozulich, marc ribot - end of the world
gastr del sol - swallow's tail
low - words
warmduscher - immaculate deception
Oruã & Reverse Death - dues-dara
kathleen yearwood - a photon goes from place to place
kathleen yearwood - the work of the spider
bluffing - people pleaser
SANAM - goblin
David Occhipinti - song of calypso
pôt-pot - fake eyes
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - double mothers
marin patenaude - nameless
Karneef - do you know a man
Joey Waronker & Pete Min - chocolate chip
Patrick Watson - choir in the wires
jed arbour - parasite
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell - tears for johannesburg feat julian priester, weedle briamah
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October 31, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode October 30, 2025
Playlist:
land of kush - ssssss
BIG/BRAVE - not speaking the of the wave
kue varo - the furthest thing
N0V3L - take you for
little misty - secrets
yves jarvis - gold filigree
window lamp - cowboy
l'omelette - fast fashion fascist
by divine right - field of trampolines
bria salmena - stretch the struggle
aysanabee - home
chantal vitalis - around you
Jolie Laide - saw the wave
jed arbour - parasite
audrey ochoa - the con artist
starpainter - rattlesnake dream
erika angell - temple
Patrick Watson - house on fire
yoo doo right - the moral compass of a self-driving car
POSTNAMERS - vanga
elizabeth anika vajagic - why
hrsta - the orchard
the weather station - robber
fiver - stable song
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October 24, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode October 23, 2025
Playlist:
ukandanz - war pigs
hyldon & adrian younge - jenipapo robot
sugar brown - sixteen shots
buzz' ayaz - efdji
three-layer cake - deliverdance
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - neptune anteater
marc ribot - rata de los patas (feat. astrid hadad)
massive attack - karmacoma
makaya mccraven - black rhythm happening
meggie lennon - mind games
Jolie Laide - old collapser
lankum - what will we do when we no money?
atlantic jazz ensemble - enlightenment
thievery corporation - culture of fear
hustle - black to the future
frigs - god hates a coward
al-qasar - personal jesus
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October 17, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode October 16, 2025
Playlist:
adrian younge - revolutionize
fly pan am - interface your shattered dreams
SANAM - hadikat al ams
tackhead - mind at the end of the tether
alabama 3 - speed to the sound of loneliness
kevin breit - yearning soul rebellion
oranje - balk
little axe - ride on (fight on)
nina nastasia - family of three
algiers - blood
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - double mothers
amythyst kiah - trouble so hard
Joey Waronker & Pete Min - chocolate chip
the weather station - robber
the apples - wa-isme'i
Brother Dragon - T4
Jolie Laide - old collapser
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - strange cults
bedouine - solitary daughter
Rich Brown - heart of a lonely woman
markus floats - forward always
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October 10, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode October 9, 2025
Playlist:
ginger baker - brain damage
desertion trio - powers
combo daguerre - les assassins
zoon - brokenhead
pissourin - monsieur doumani
deltron 3030 - virus
emiliana torrini & the colorist orchestra - racing the storm
Jolie Laide - saw the wave
hylozoists - the fifty minute hour
David Occhipinti - octavia
Red Baraat - gaadi of truth (feat. stewart copeland)
emily wells - symphony 10: could this really be the end?
Patrick Watson - uh oh
Sargeant x Comrade - distant lands
funki porcini - this ain't the way to live
Guerilla Toss - red flag to angry bull
gastr del sol - the seasons reverse
gillian moranz - i heard you signed a treaty
SANAM - harik
hrsta - ....and we climb
Jolie Laide - honey don't
carla bozulich - glass house
lightning dust - devoted to
kamasi washington - song for the fallen
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October 07, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode October 2, 2025
Playlist:
Kassa Overall - Rebirth of Slick
Frigs - Waste
Black Joe Louis - Sugarfoot
ndox electrique - Hey Ya Naline
buzz' ayaz - efdji
hyldon & adrian younge - Jenipapo Robo
Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
Melvin Gibbs - Message From The Streets
Didon, Carmen Rizzo - Beside You
Arto Lindsay - Tangles
altin gün - Goca Dünya
African Head Charge - No Don't Follow Fashion
Dishrags - I Don't Love You
Kid Koala, Lealani - Things Are Going To Change
Algiers - Blood
Pugs & Crows - Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
Jolie Laide - Cheyenne
Yannis and The Yaw - Under The Strikes (feat. Tony Allen)
The Heavy - How Do You Like Me Now
The Apples - Wa-isme'i
Andrew Bird - Bloodless
C'mon Tigre - The Botanist
Animal Collective - Time Skiffs
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September 26, 2025Alternative To What? - Podcast September 25, 2025
Andrew Waller from Breaking The Tethers makes an appearance as host again!

Playlist:
MC5 - Black to comm
Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair
Fieldwork - Fire city
Wolf People - Thistles
Skullcap - Desert turtles
Eternal Drak - Oda a la luna
Volker Lankow - To Darwaz
Charles Kynard - Smiling faces sometimes
Bob Dylan - Froggie went a-courtin'
Necrambulant - Ineffible tormenting possession
David Murray - A love supreme, part I: acknowlegement
Blossom Toes - Nobody but
Lingyuan Yang - The sound of the mountain
Freh Khodja - Ken Andi Habib
The Gun - Rupert's travels
Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjad Khan, Mudassir Khan - Kya baat
Crüzer - Pit vyper
Dálava - Open your ear to the great below
Kansas - The spider
LVTHN - Mother of abominations
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September 19, 2025Alternative To What? - Episode September 18, 2025
Playlist:
s.g. goodman - i can see the devil
neighborhood kids - kids in the cages
jairus sharif - dr. teddy's high test
buildings and food - coasting
Jolie Laide - honey don't
little barrie & malcolm catto - electric war
meridian brothers - quiero le major mara mi huayno
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - the grifter
Madeline Kenney - breakdown
unknown mortal orchestra - the widow
magma - kobaïa ïs dë hündïn
allison russell - demons
Ezra Furman - sudden storm
Eliot Krimsky - time waves
the weather station - robber
POSTNAMERS - vanga
mike bagetta, jim keltner, mike watt - this is not a euphemism
dirty projectors - zombie conqueror (feat empress of)
saul williams - list of remands (reparations)
kneecap - better way to live (feat. grian chatten)
The Budos Band - behind the curtain
erika angell - open eyes
oh caroline - spine
Samantha Schmütz & Adrian Younge - fietiço
snakefinger - there's no justice in life
No Joy - save the lobsters
land of kush - sand enigma
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FAQs about Alternative To What?:

How many episodes does Alternative To What? have?

The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.