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Home  >  Interview: Basement, Hot Mulligan, and PUP at Rockstar Energy Open Posted: 21st August, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.

Home  >  Iowa Kind: Hinterland Music Festival Maintains Homegrown Intimacy Through Rapid Evolution Posted: 15th August, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.

Posted: 10th August, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff Silverstein and Story of the Year brought their Camp Screamo tour to Nashville for the second-to-last date of their summer run, turning the night into a celebration of two bands whose careers have helped shape the post-hardcore and screamo scene. Joined by Origami Angel and Ally Nicholas. With both Silverstein and Story of the Year boasting careers spanning more than two decades, the pairing was a long time coming.

Home  >  The Alt Weekly Roundup (8/10/26) Posted: 10th August, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.

Posted: 1st August, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff Drenched head to toe in sweat were 200 people losing their minds to some of the gnarliest and intense music in the hardcore and metalcore scene right now. Kentucky’s Knocked Loose and rapper Denzel Curry decided to do a live debut of their collab track “Hive Mind” at Brooklyn’s Substance Skatepark on a musty Tuesday night.

Posted: 27th July, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.

Home  >  Review: Summering – “In the Sunlight” Posted: 27th July, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.

Posted: 23rd July, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff On a sweaty Saturday night in Philadelphia, actor-turned-musician Finn Wolfhard and Chicago indie rockers Sleeper’s Bell played sweet sets at Union Transfer. The crowd for this show was mostly young people, primarily women in particular, and they were very enthusiastic and eager for the show to start.

Posted: 23rd July, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff Black Country, New Road are one of the post-rock acts who are pushing the envelope on musicianship and what it means to be a band at its core. The band are a collective of incredibly talented musicians from the UK who’s understanding of the language of music shows no bounds on the stage. Each one of the members does not overpower the other, they all take up space on the stage that allows for the music to really work its magic.

Posted: 20th July, 2026 by The Alt Editing Staff The Alternative is 100% supported by our readers. If you’d like to help us write about more great music and keep our site going, you can become a Patron on Patreon, which also allows you to receive extra content, sweet perks, and The Alternative merch, with levels starting at only $2 per month.