Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative 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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  • Alternative To What? - Podcast September 11, 2025
    Guest host this week: Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers

    Playlist:
    • Crumbling Ghost - Battle of Barnet
    • Booker T and the MG's - Melting pot
    • Brandon Isaak - Black coffee
    • The Conet Project - Counting control
    • Andrew Staniland - The laws of nature - electricity grid
    • Beatles - Dig it (long version)
    • Eric Alexander - The lamp is low
    • Harvested - Voices of the void
    • Ian Boddy - Gravity well
    • Emmylou Harris, Jason & The Scorchers - Everything has a cost
    • The Conet Project - Old incantation
    • Friendly Rich - Side B - birds 40 to 76
    • Charles Chen - Zhang fei, fierce warriors
    • Omar El Shariyi - Enta enta
    • Anthony Pirog - Mori point
    • Anthony Pirog - Beecher
    • WITCH - Queenless king
    • Centuries of Decay - A monument to oblivion
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode September 4, 2025

    Playlist:
    • three-layer cake - what was cut from the negative space
    • alec k red fearn & the eyestores - st. james infirmary/headless emcee
    • animal collective - walker
    • makaya mccraven - autumn in new york
    • ramon chicharron - bombero
    • bria salmena - stretch the struggle
    • anthony joseph - an afro futurist poem
    • algiers - blood
    • Samantha Schmütz & Adrian Younge - revoada
    • sun atoms - idiot speaker
    • adam lytle - black masses
    • Umlaut - bite your tongue
    • Hermitess - lines in our hands
    • Lucy Dacus - lost time
    • amy milan - losing you
    • charles spearin - when tigers used to smoke
    • circuit des yeux - dogma
    • Jon Bentley - movin' further west
    • Laura Hickli - strawberries
    • POSTNAMERS - menjoa
    • nico - venus in furs
    • darkblueworld - give me a reason
    • matana roberts - her mighty waters run
    • alvaro rojas - talons
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode August 28, 2025

    Playlist:
    • sons of kemet, kojey radical - hustle
    • harriet tubman - five points
    • hrsta - swallow's tail
    • asa horvitz/carmen quill/ariadne randall/wayne horvitz - personality
    • N NAO - echo
    • empanadas ilegales - la danza del vampiro
    • fantastic negrito - plastic hamburgers
    • kassa overall - going up (feat lil b, shabazz palaces & francis and the lights)
    • arto lindsay - tangles
    • kee avil - devils' sweet tooth
    • The Allergies - goodbye baby
    • la chiva gantiva - bombon
    • Umlaut - grumpy library
    • Jamie Lidell - the night i went crazy
    • La Banda Chuska - ratas y mapaches
    • mick flannery - fuck off world
    • wilco - happiness
    • audrey ochoa - bunganga
    • samantha savage smith - in it to win
    • kevin breit - yearning soul rebellion
    • Niloo - sour cherry jam
    • Dan Mangan - cut the brakes
    • little barrie and malcolm catto - spektator
    • Bedolina - sympathy for a satellite
    • jerusalem in my heart - wa ta'atalat loughat al kalam
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode August 21, 2025

    Playlist:
    • yamantaka//sonic titan - hungry ghost
    • Ezra Furman - sudden storm
    • jorane - errance
    • buzz' ayaz - efdji
    • Laura Hickli - call it off
    • Silla - tuniq
    • michael feuerstack - poor everybody
    • lankum - what will we do when we have no money
    • tanya tagaq - teeth agape
    • lankum - clear away in the morning
    • La Banda Chuska - bailando con mi oscuridad
    • SamWoy - si vous trouvez cela je suis au ciel
    • angelica garcia - el que
    • EMEL - i'll leave
    • gastr del sol - the seasons reverse
    • Hyldon & Adrian Younge - janipapo robot
    • don byron - satan's blues
    • cate le bon - meet the man
    • palace music - work hard/play hard
    • king hannah - milk boy i love you
    • hangedup and tony conrad - bright arc of light
    • this mortal coil - song to the siren
    • oh caroline - skin and bones
    • gallus gallus - (K2-18b)
    • keyon harrold - gotta go (outer space)
    • arto lindsay - tangles
    • cinephonic - temps perdu
    • mortimer, be quiet - half my heart left for st. john's
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode August 14, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Jerry Jeff Walker - About Her Eyes
    • Chelsea Wolfe - Friedrichshain
    • Ora Cogan - Bury Me
    • Jack Name - Big Monsoon
    • Riley Downing - Deep Breath
    • Prewn - System
    • The Proper Ornaments - The Impeccable Lawns
    • Leizure - Gunshots in the House of God
    • Possible Humans - Born Stoned
    • Stereolab - Tone Burst [Country]
    • Germ House - Cold and Uptight
    • J.R.C.G. - Holy Hope
    • Wand - Bee Karma
    • Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar
    • Exploded View - Summer Came Early
    • Lifeguard - Under Your Reach
    • Hellier Ulysses - Destroy What Destroys You
    • Elaine Malone - Dark Rooms
    • Flowertown - Tourist Language
    • Leslie Winer - John Says
    • Should - Spangle
    • The Telescopes - What You Love
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode August 7, 2025

    Playlist:
    • the woodshed orchestra - penny + mousie's antidotal lullabye
    • three-layer cake - deliverdance
    • Mary Halvorson - absinthian
    • kathleen yearwood - for jesse bernstein
    • reggie workman - what's in your hands
    • squiggly lines, lauren dillen - daily
    • Half Gringa - your lies
    • Charles Kynard - lime twig
    • Freh Khodja - kalbou ahzine
    • Black Country, New Road - for the cold country
    • mike bagetta, jim keltner, mike watt - this is not a euphemism
    • Cosmic Club - mother
    • mùm - evaporate (live in berlin)
    • eric chenaux - an abandoned rose
    • monophonics, kelly finnigan - last one standing
    • Ezra Furman - strange girl
    • asa horvitz/carmen quill - to understand the story
    • marc ribot - the big fool
    • bernie worrell - dirty (feat. warren haynes)
    • aladean kheroufi - here with me
    • CG tears - i'm falling up
    • bluffing - familiar circles
    • Natalie Bergman - gunslinger
    • Potatohead People & Slippery Elm - compass rose
    • ben shemie - do do do
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 31, 2025

    Playlist:
    • chevreuil - gendarme
    • Hyldon & Adrian Younge - jenipapo robot
    • the neighborhood kids - kids in cages
    • deltron 3030 - virus
    • Mary Halvorson - carved from
    • sam lynch - piece of you
    • chaba zohra - ki bghitouni nabra
    • stef.in - juan soto
    • shn shn - new horizons
    • bria salmena - stretch the struggle
    • Jolie Laide - saw the wave
    • kishi bashi - a meal for leaves
    • frazey ford - the kids are having none of it
    • Half Gringa - anywhere you find me
    • The Folk Implosion - park dub
    • Japanese Breakfast - little girl
    • exhaust - two years on welfare
    • chad vangaalen - nightmare scenario
    • beth custer - break a law a day
    • dominique fils-aimé - mind made up
    • Gerald Clayton - space seas
    • Salami Rose Joe Louis - inside
    • helado negro - pais nubiado
    • dirty projectors - self design
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