Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative To What? - Episode December 11, 2025

    Playlist:
    • deltron 3030 - virus
    • Karneef - inside matches the outside
    • SANAM - harik
    • the neighorhood kids - kids in the cages
    • The Dwarfs of East Agouza - neptune anteater
    • elizabeth anka vajagic - why
    • Gruff Rhys - dos amandi
    • larval - thick atmosphere
    • Sharp Pins - crown of thorns
    • mssv - the mystery of
    • ezra furman - strange girl
    • Brother Dragon - T7
    • frazey ford - done
    • jeff parker - fusion swirl
    • field guide - make it right
    • Oranje - ceilings
    • makaya mccraven - black lion
    • Crasher - stories
    • beth gibbons - reaching out
    • Freak Slug - blue eyes
    • N NAO - echo
    • al-qasar - promises
    • Empanadas Ilegales - matador
    • dystoh - come and go
    • los chicos malos - si no la baila, paro la rumba
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode December 4, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Chico Buarque - Construçao
    • Alice Swoboda - Potters Field
    • North Americans - Rivers That You Cannot See
    • Panda Bear - Defense
    • Michael Nau - Hoops
    • Sharp Pins - You Have a Way
    • Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars
    • Ora Cogan - Feel Life
    • M(h)aol - Snare
    • cistern - Ephemeral
    • Good Sad Happy Bad - Shaded Tree
    • Ulrika Spacek - Square Root of None
    • Lifeguard - Ultra Violence
    • Teethe - Upside Down
    • trust blinks. - Burnout
    • Witches Exist - Drown
    • Darto - I Am
    • Flore Laurentienne - Navigation IV
    • N NAO - Bienvenue
    • Kaymo - Shimmer
    • Cate Le Bon - Heaven is No Feeling
    • Laetitia Sadier - Une Autre Attente
    • Elisa Randazzo - Colors
    • Chris Hauer - Holding
    • Sean Nicholas Savage - Darkness
    • Peel Dream Magazine - Four Leaf Clover
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode November 27, 2025

    Playlist:
    • combo daguerre - les assassins
    • a-wa - habib galbi
    • african head charge - in pursuit of shashamane land
    • alec k redfearn & the eyesores - smoking shoes
    • David Occhipinti - canticum abaci
    • Mary Ancheta - minokawa (feat. kimmortal)
    • alabaster deplume - what can it take
    • Julianna Riolino - it's a shakedown
    • Patrick Watson - silencio
    • Mac DeMarco - punishment
    • andrew bird - bloodless
    • The Dwarfs of East Agouza - swollen thankles
    • Ada Lea - just like in the museum
    • Gladhanding - sweat the divine
    • dj shadow and run the jewels - nobody speak
    • animal collective - walker
    • buzz' ayaz - efdji
    • c'mon tigre - the botanist
    • Guided By Voices - dance of the picnic ants
    • chica libre - sonida amazonico
    • emiliana torrini & the colorist orchestra - the illusion curse
    • Maraudeur - robot machine
    • bluffing - fragile ego
    • john kemeel farah & nick fraser - dirge
    • kameel - the floor eats first
    • Lucrecia Dalt - no death no danger
    • Jessica Moss - washing machine
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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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