Alternative Music Blog

A collection of my articles, reviews, interviews (mostly local to NYC/Brooklyn in support of my own community), and shorter, more frequent blog-style posts.

I review and recommend albums, records, books, documentaries, and more, all relating to alternative music. New and old are mixed in harmoniously, because I believe good music never ages.

I’ll even give a few music theory lessons for those who are adventurous enough to take a deep dive and look at what really makes music so cool.

*A word on “alternative” music: I love and adore alternative rock and will focus mainly on that category. However, I’ve found myself caught up in affairs with other genres over the years, so for the purpose of this blog, if it falls outside of the current mainstream, I shall declare it Alternative Music.*

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Latest from the Blog

THE SOUND OF HARDCORE – Part Two: The Germs “Lexicon Devil” (Crash-Smear) (1979)

A Historical and Theoretical Analysis of Fifteen Songs Representative of American Hardcore’s Musical Style I’m going a little academic on this one, but it’s a funny story: Due to a miscommunication in my class on American hardcore punk (yes, there is an actual course on hardcore punk led by Kimon Keramidas at NYU’s Experimental Humanities…

Concert Review: Evanescence, Halestorm, Lilith Czar

Prudential Center – Newark, New Jersey – January 21, 2022. In a Rolling Stone article from November 2020 announcing the latest studio album—The Bitter Truth— from alt-metal band Evanescence, Brittany Spanos wrote: “Every rock era has been defined by how few women have been able to break into the mainstream.” Let that sink in for…

10 Year Challenge / That Time I Painted Skrillex’s Spaceship

What were you doing 10 years ago? This question has been trending on social media lately, but it focuses a little too much on “What did you look like 10 years ago?”  Looks don’t offer much of a narrative as far as I’m concerned, so I’ll tell you a little story about something I did…