Alternative To What?

Alternative To What?

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Alternative To What? episodes

  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 17, 2025

    Playlist:
    • postnamers - the prophet of worms
    • carla kihlstedt, tin hat trio - a cloud on a leaf
    • rebekah higgs - parables
    • the weather station - robber
    • sofa surfers - broken together
    • shannon lay - recording 15
    • Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes - between us
    • Lido Pimienta - ahora
    • ethel cain - punish
    • dirty projectors - work together
    • Hyldon & Adrian Younge - jenipapo robot
    • eric chenaux - these things
    • SamWoy - diamond eyes
    • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe - and live again
    • kairo creatures club - exile
    • al-qasar - bissaha tiaqayna
    • nilüfer yanya - kneel
    • dumama + kechou - wessi walking mama
    • algiers - hymn for an average man
    • Jolie Laide - old collapser
    • Mary Halvorson - absinthian
    • Les Abranis - akoudar
    • Ezra Furman - veil song
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 10, 2025

    Playlist:
    • tackhead - what's my mission now?
    • cyril cyril & meridian brothers - diablos de chuao
    • parkland - abby
    • gastr del sol - the seasons reverse
    • Ezra Furman - strange girl
    • Goddess - diamond dust
    • chantal vitalis - around you
    • martha wainwright - bloody mother fucking asshole
    • Obongjayar - instant animal
    • super duty tough work - hypnotic
    • bad omens, bob vylan - terms & conditions
    • hrsta - swallow's tail
    • kassa overall (feat. sullivan fortner) - darkness in my mind
    • sun city girls - caravan
    • massive attack - paradise circus
    • Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus - hey, open up!
    • ghostface killah - daily news
    • the souljazz orchestra - dog eat dog
    • Thanya Iyer - i am here now
    • Femi Kuti - last magu
    • Eye of Newt - outside job, inside joke
    • songhoy blues - dagabi
    • land of kush - broken maqams
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode July 3, 2025

    Playlist:
    • big star - kangaroo
    • ora cogan - secret
    • low - words
    • al-qasar - bissaha tiaqayna
    • thumbscrew - emojis have consequences
    • SUUNS - witness protection
    • jerusalem in my heart - layali al-rast
    • steve lehman - 23c
    • beth gibbons - reaching out
    • royal canoe - show me your eyes
    • elizabeth fraser - moses
    • manu dibango - waka juju part 2
    • violent femmes - country death song
    • panda bear - anywhere but here
    • sharon van etten - femme fatale
    • violent femmes - gone daddy gone
    • l'rain - uncertainty principle
    • kevin breit - yearning soul rebellion
    • little scream - dear leader
    • alsarah & the nubatones - soudani
    • basia bulat - the moon
    • jeremy dutcher - jeremy dutcher
    • matana roberts - her mighty waters run
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 26, 2025

    Playlist:
    • thievery corporation - culture of fear
    • black midi - welcome to hell
    • Femi Kuti - chop and run
    • ceramic dog & marc ribot - the activist
    • wihtikow - home
    • elizabeth anka vajagic - when you wander
    • nehiyawak - disappear
    • combo daguerre - les assassins
    • the sure fire soul ensemble - impeach the president
    • copperhead - touch
    • Frog Eyes - the open up dream on a lost receipt
    • violent femmes - black girls
    • Les Abranis - mmliyi kan
    • Vivienne Wilder - wrong hero
    • tanya tagaq - teeth agape
    • Bria Salmena - hammer
    • Jolie Laide - small things
    • dakh daughters - i want
    • Chaepter - promises
    • emiliana torrini & the colorist orchestra - the illusion curse
    • BADBADNOTGOOD - ways of seeing
    • the heavy - how you like me now
    • delvon lamarr organ trio - aces
    • Stella - too poor
    • haramia tapes - harper
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 19, 2025

    Playlist:
    • alabaster deplume - what can it take
    • yaya bey - 12 houses down
    • algiers - a hymn for an average man
    • Hyldon & Adrian Younge - jenipapo robot
    • kev carmody - pillars of society
    • BLVD NOIR - ready or not
    • oranje - memo
    • Mogwai - volcanos
    • Miramar - no puede ser
    • Bonnie Prince Billy - guns are for cowards
    • doubleheader - criadora feat samito
    • N Nao - destin
    • Jolie Laide - old collapser
    • kee avil - remember
    • Motherhood - moat
    • the weakerthans - plea from a cat named virtute
    • Tawni Bias - coolant
    • t. gowdy - anonymous v
    • betty davis - nasty gal
    • adrian sherwood - trapped here
    • cold specks - venus in pisces
    • pugs & crows - not my circus not my monkeys
    • daniele luppi & parquet courts - pretty prizes
    • circuit des yeux - ride blind
    • land of kush - sand enigma
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 12, 2025

    Playlist:
    • saul williams - list of demands (reparations)
    • melvin gibbs - message from the streets
    • gil scott-heron - the revolution will not be televised
    • adrian younge - revolutionize
    • arrested development - revolution
    • mary ocher - i am the occupation
    • thalia zedek band - fighting season
    • Ethel Cain - punish
    • Jolie Laide - wharwolf
    • Bria Salmena - hammer
    • marin patenaude - taste the pain
    • The Harpoonist - good people
    • Manu Dibango - waka juju part 1
    • makaya mccraven - black rhythm happening
    • thanya iyer - let the smoke clear
    • cécile doo-kingue - riot & revolution
    • Songhoy Blues - batto
    • marc ribot (feat tom waits) - bella ciao
    • sargeant x comrade - black ninjas
    • Jeannie Piersol - shot me through
    • Frog Eyes - television, a ghost in my head
    • Eye of Newt - outside job, inside joke
    • Black Country, New Road - happy birthday
    • mike baggettta, jim keltner, mike watt - everywhen we go
    • POSTNAMERS - the best little disco in texas
    • dirty projectors - holy mackerel
    • carolyn mark - go get lost
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode June 5, 2025
    Guest host : Andrew Waller from Breaking The Tethers!

    Playlist:
    • Whispering Worlds - Serpentine suspension
    • Henri Texier - Varech
    • Jimmy Farace - Signs of spring
    • Les Abranis - Akoudar
    • Hacked Apart - Embalmed, to be kept around
    • Ed Palermo Big Band - Tarkus
    • Stereolab - Electrified teenybop!
    • Hitman Blues Band - Blood alley
    • Anthony Braxton & Marilyn Crispell - Part 3
    • Markus Reuter - Aurora drift, pt. 4
    • They Might Be Giants - Snowball in hell
    • Hiromi - XYZ
    • The Smile - Eyes & mouth
    • Ladom Ensemble - Romanian folk dances
    • Frantic Amber - Jolly Jane
    • Reginald Cyntje - Shattered structures
    • Erik Emil Eskildsen - Be kind
    • Iconoclast - Opposites contract
    • Sheldon Agwu - Archean
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 29, 2025

    Playlist:
    • bruire - you've changed
    • big/brave - i felt a funeral
    • marc ribot (feat astrid hadad & ohene cornelius) - ratos de los patas
    • adrian younge presents the delfonics - enemies
    • Farnaz Ohadi - persian folk song
    • Jolie Laide - wharwolf
    • Half Gringa - supervision
    • Iconoclast - the spy upstairs
    • Japanese Breakfast - mega circuit
    • melvin gibbs (feat kokayi) - message from the streets
    • arto lindsay - tangles
    • carl hancock rux - lamentations
    • sandro perri - god blessed the fool
    • king hannah - this wasn't intentional
    • exhaust - metro mile end
    • glissandro 70 - bolan muppets
    • The Folk Implosion - wide web
    • Black Country, New Road - salem sisters
    • eric chenaux - however wildly we dream
    • bluffing - fragile ego
    • buzz' ayaz - efdji
    • eye of newt - bot for teacher
    • Hyldon & Adrian Younge - jenipapo robot
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  • Alternative To What? - Episode May 22, 2025
    Guest-host again this week: Andrew Waller from Breaking The Tethers!

    Playlist:
    • Healing Force - Oh! Love of life
    • Dave Robbins Big Band - Sixes & sevens
    • Shiri Zorn & George Muscatello - Prayer
    • The Mothers of Invention - Dog breath, in the year of the plague
    • Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Old L.A.
    • Billy Cobham - Last frontier
    • Nour Symon - Je mourrai dans une piece fermee
    • Sin of God - Cerebral malfunction
    • Joe Henderson - Joe's bolero
    • Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship - Have you seen the stars tonite?
    • Ki Oni - Floating with an elephant, seal
    • The Jam - Circus
    • Illusions Play - Under shining moon
    • Bill King - The river's edge
    • Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly - Height
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