Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 7, 2026

    Playlist:
    • jeff parker - 3 for L
    • kue varo - the death of good advice
    • dirty three - black tide
    • This House - oh my butterfly
    • Claire Ozmun - edgewater
    • Ishmael Ali - anathema
    • deliluh - creeping tom
    • last ark out - scorpio
    • gary bartz, ali shaheed muhammad, adrian younge - the message
    • hélène barbier - unbolted cover
    • Brickie - i saw god
    • Paolo Di Carlo - curves
    • kamasai washington - integrity
    • Ribbon Skirt - comma
    • algiers - a hymn for the average man
    • body breaks - bad trouble
    • lightning dust - devoted to
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode April 23, 2026
    With a guest host this week, Andrew Waller from Breaking The Tethers!

    Playlist:
    • Concrete Sun - Skittering away
    • Family - Buffet tea for two
    • Antonio Carlos, Jocafi, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Rala-bucho
    • Hüsker Dü - Hare Krsna
    • Ishmael Ali - Everness
    • Christopher Mayo, Andrew Noseworthy + Grace Scheele - Walk the darkness down
    • Upsilon Acrux - The court of Zolex
    • Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Robert A. Johnson - Rotterdam jam
    • Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960
    • Janel Leppin - Slowly melting
    • Hoven Droven - Myhrpolska
    • Gilles Laval - Cachalots hugs
    • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland - Squeal of swine
    • Dory Hayley - XYZ
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode April 16, 2026
    filmmaker Raymond Creamer re: his CUFF film GOODIE GOODIE

    Playlist:
    • a-wa - habib galbi
    • alec k. redfearn & the eyesores - smoking shoes
    • clinton st. john - vanishing song
    • animal collective - walker
    • cuidado madame - tangles
    • Tinariwen - khay erlan
    • beast - devil
    • kid koala - 6 bit blues
    • tom waits + massive attack - boots on the ground
    • emiliano torrini @ the colorist orchestra - the illusion curse
    • This House - out in the westlands
    • jolie laide - saw the wave
    • Antibalas - la ceiba
    • frigs - god hates a coward
    • hrsta - ...and we climb
    • marc ribot - rata de los patas (feat. astrid hadad & Ohene Cornelius)
    • Total Hip Replacement - the door
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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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