Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative To What? - Episode January 29, 2026

    Playlist:
    • african head charge - no, don't follow fashion
    • saul williams - list of reparations
    • black midi - welcome to hell
    • ceramic dog & marc ribot - the activist
    • weyes blood - seven words
    • Dan Rosenboom - oracles
    • sanam - harik
    • hrsta - folkways orange
    • jolie laide - murder ballad
    • wolf parade - as kind as you can
    • emily haines - doctor blind
    • shame - screwdriver
    • Patrick Watson - house on fire
    • rafiq bhatia - breaking englis
    • truck violence - he ended the bender hanging
    • Pulgas - following you
    • Various Artists - Nyles - i am the couch
    • gastr del sol - the seasons
    • knitting - sleeper
    • alvaro rojas - the enthusiast
    • field guide - leave you lonely
    • cindy lee - kingdom come
    • to a place you don't come back - to a place you don't come back
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode January 22, 2026

    Playlist:
    • animal collective - walker
    • carla bozulich - stained in grace
    • Hélène Barbier - lapin
    • Dry Cleaning - evil evil idiot
    • Patrick Smith - poseidon rising
    • big star - kangaroo
    • Maraudeur - scorpio
    • the bug - hammer (feat flowdan)
    • melvin gibbs - message from the streets
    • The Radiation Flowers - junkie for tragedy
    • Yuuf - orken bloom
    • mary ocher - i am the occupation
    • mary ancheta - the blessing
    • sunset rubdown - reappearing rat
    • Way Ahead Trio - six o'clock window wiper
    • sharon van etten - malibou
    • the shivas - gun in my pocket
    • Pranatricks - invisible man
    • Amir ElSaffar - 10:23 am
    • Heaven For Real - common breath
    • buzz ayaz - efdji
    • Karneef - insides match the outside
    • earth to eve - no kings
    • Guided By Voices - captain kangaroo won the war
    • colin stetson - lord i just can't keep from crying sometimes
    • circuit des yeux - ride blind
    • noga erez - bubbling
    • do make say think - frederica
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode January 15, 2026

    Playlist:
    • adrian younge - revolutionize
    • alabaster deplume - what can it take
    • ben shemie - a skeleton
    • dirty three - the restless waves
    • sea of lettuce - i gotta know
    • nina nastasia - this is what it is
    • the cape may - hunting grounds
    • Nation of Language - in your head
    • Sessa - nome de deus
    • Total Hip Replacement - lost in thought
    • aldous harding - the world is looking for you
    • sandro perri - god blessed the fool
    • SHY FRiEND - freaky nightmare
    • Patrick Smith - banff
    • carl hancock rux - i recall
    • glass beams - snake oil
    • emily wells - the dress rehearsal
    • Carl Schultz - ecumenopolis
    • amythyst kiah - hangover blues
    • hanged up - kinetic work
    • Iris Caltwait - honey, baby
    • Merv xx Gotti - born for battle
    • animal collective - walker
    • arto lindsay - unpair
    • esmerine - imaginary pasts
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode January 8, 2026
    Guest host this week, Andrew Waller, host of Breaking The Tethers

    Playlist:
    • Etran De L'Aïr - Imouha
    • Howard Roberts - Unfolding in
    • Dory Hayley - Scenes from MacBeth, I. wyrd sisters
    • Black Sabbath - Wishing well
    • Cepheidae Variable - Overture
    • Jeff Tweedy - Amar Bharati
    • Passport - Get yourself a second passport
    • Christina Ruf - Joint written in the marginalia of time
    • Pot pourri - Beat rave
    • Teejay Riedl - Sombre reptiles
    • Krakhouse - We go blam blam
    • Amnesiac Quartet - Bodysnatchers
    • Richard Leo Johnson - Bob Peanut
    • Gladhanding - Slow cook cold shoulder
    • Phil Miller, In Cahoots - Big Dick
    • Blue Oyster Cult - Teen archer
    • Pentangle - The snows
    • Warren Zevon - Reconsider me
    • The Kasambwe Brothers - Langizani mwachikondi
    • Mahavishnu Orchestra - Lila's dance
    • kitschmonger - Regression toward the mean
    • Engrupid Pipol - Inspireichon burn
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode January 1, 2026

    Playlist:
    • three-layer cake - from couplets to corpuscles
    • Mary Halvorsen - absinthian
    • Hélène Barbier - kindness in a cup
    • exhaust - a history of guerrilla warfare
    • Raleigh - intergalactic spasms
    • Justin Karas - silver scales
    • SANAM - harik
    • dirty projectors - overlord
    • kassa overall - so happy
    • cousines like shit - transformation
    • jeff parker - fusion swirl
    • beth gibbons - reaching out
    • Oranje - ceiling
    • Jolie Laide - ranchlands hum
    • panda bear - ends meet
    • camarâo - camarao no oriente
    • adam lytle - black masses
    • glass beams - black sand
    • l'rain - heavy (but not in wait)
    • Holly Palmer - deconstructed aria
    • erika angell - never tried to run
    • al-qasar - kisisel isa (personal jesus)
    • alvaro rojas - the owl
    • sunset rubdown - reappearing rat
    • land of kush - trema
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode December 25, 2025

    Playlist:
    • animal collective - walker
    • carla bozulich - time of the preacher
    • erika angell - dress of stillness
    • captain beefheart & his magic band - there arin't no santa claus on the evening stage
    • andrew bird - bloodless
    • Geese - getting killed
    • julia jacklin - baby jesus is nobody's baby now
    • Hélène Barbier - lapin
    • robert glasper - let me in
    • Raleigh - end of days
    • Karneef - do you know a man
    • KMVP - guilt free sleep
    • jolie laide - old collapser
    • saccharine trust - a christmas cry
    • Neko Case - little gears
    • SANAM - sayl damei
    • mayaka mccraven - black rhythm happening
    • The Dwarfs of East Agouza - swollen thankles
    • half gringa - supervision
    • ben shemie - the river
    • manu dibango - waka juju part 3
    • kevin breit - yearning soul rebellion
    • kid koala - jump & shuffle (live at the hardware store)
    • Cass McCombs - priestess
    • Yuuf - mesa mesa
    • bedouine - solitary daughter
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode December 18, 2025

    Playlist:
    • maud - wilder
    • chad van gaalen - red blood
    • agnostic mountain gospel choir - rainstorms in my knees
    • ghostkeeper - finn
    • peter moller and peter hutton - trivia
    • jay crocker - falling out of windows
    • fake cops - MAXIMUM
    • copperhead - the fall
    • clinton st. john - noise on the pond
    • preoccupations - silhouettes
    • jung people - coloureaters
    • primrods - atom smacker
    • lab coast - bored again
    • samantha savage smith - in it to win
    • women - black rice
    • crystal eyes - don't turn around
    • günther - wrecking ball
    • color me psycho - black corvair
    • jed arbour - parasite
    • beija flor - him, himself, he
    • lt leif - gentle moon
    • astral swans - spiral
    • cindy lee - power & possession
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