Alt Rock
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Higher Plain Music Radio returns: Best Alternative Music from 2025 Mixtape (Side A) show released
Human curated playlists for human-created music.
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Mitski returns with ‘Where’s My Phone?’ and new album in February
Reclusive rock that lets it all pour out in private.
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Introducing… Vilde
Music for hypnagogia
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Introducing… Marta Vega
Grungey rock with a glitchy DJ twist.
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PJ Harvey’s ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea’ hits 25 years old
25 years of one of the best rock albums ever made.
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NERiMA – ‘All My Mistakes’ Review
When emo rock meets pop sensibilities, anthems happen.
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Mitski – The Land: The Live Album Review
A great performance of an artist that commands the stage.
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Introducing… Liesa Van Der Aa
Belgian experimental electric pop-rock artist explores copy and paste to extreme measures.
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Introducing… Larker
The outpouring of 12 years a slave to a relationship that no longer serves you.
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Scarlet Rae – ‘No Heavy Goodbyes’ Review
Acoustic rock plugged directly into the shoegaze realm as Scarlet Rae tackles grief and loss on her new EP.
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Mitski is coming to theatres with The Land
An audio visual feast captured over three performances in 2024.
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Introducing… TV Moms
Power grunge riffs with a rock and roll edge.
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In The Pines – ‘Sunbeam Dream’ Review
Psych rock greatness from the back of a vintage synth repair shop.
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Introducing… debdepan
Pretty sad girl who likes to party vibes means bass and guitar hooks for the ages with debdepan.
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Introducing… Cosmic Kitten
Intense grungy anthems to comfort your numb, empty soul. Just what the doctor ordered in 2025, for Cosmic Kitten's 5th album.
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Introducing… Bones Ate Arfa
Grungy alt-rock trio from Brighton bring back the best of skater rock, whilst adding their own modern twist to it.
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Introducing… Linda From Work
Seattle garage rock quartet gets inspired by Carrie and a Woman's wrath!
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Fragile Animals – Tourist Review
My favourite dream pop release of 2025 to date.
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Introducing… Tape Trash
Norwegian duo Tape Trash think of emo as an instinct, not a genre.
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Introducing… Isolated Youth
Theatrical goth-tinged post punk quartet from Sweden releases an album crammed full of bangers.
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Introducing… Glow And The Dark
DIY emo punk about beginnings, endings, and the moments suspended in between.
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Introducing… Big Fear
Exploring human fears and warped perceptions with one of the most effortlessly cool alt pop jams I've heard this year.
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Introducing… Duncan Lloyd
Maximo Park songwriter and guitarist takes the next step on his solo career with 90s-style shoegazing Brit Pop banger.
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Live Vault – SPELLLING
When a girl and her loop pedal gains a huge full band to showcase her grungier prog rock side.
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Night School – For Keeps Review
Mixing the goth girl rock with eeriely sweet vocals for a delve into the darker side of love.
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Introducing… Yumi Zouma
An alt-rock tribute to the New York subway and the wonders of public transport that works.
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Temples – Other Structures EP Review
Four new tracks and two new remixes extend Temples' superb album 'Sun Structures' 10 years on without compromising quality.
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Introducing… heddlu
An uplifting psych-rock indie anthem from Wales for anyone needing to recharge their batteries and try again.
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Tom Vek – We Have Sound B-Sides Review
20 years on, the B-sides are back to expand a fantastic album with a treasure chest of hidden indie rock gems.
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Bryde – Live At St Pancras Old Church Review
A raw, unfiltered, powerful tour-de-force live performance
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Broken Baby’s new single channels my approach to 2025 – screw the algorithm
Rock duo Broken Baby shake off the weight of an unfair creative landscape and promise themselves to rediscover creative joy again
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Introducing… Ocre
French alternative rockers Ocre wrote their new single 'Don't Worry' to persuade themselves that everything will be ok
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Drug Church – PRUDE Review
Taking the hardcore punk spirit and injecting it into catchy, grungy adjacent anthems for the working class
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Tori Amos – Diving Deep Live Review
Extended jams showcase the unique hypnotic nature of a live Tori Amos experience.
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Live Vault – St. Vincent
ARTE Concerts provide the stage for an electrifying show
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Yon Loader – Yon Loader Review
When indie meets emo with punk aspirations.
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Introducing… Read The Room
UK based alt rockers mesh anthemic rock with a confrontational punk spirit.
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Torres and Fruit Bats – A Decoration Review
An ethereal, milky drift across alternative rock soundscapes in a playful collaboration.
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Carnival Youth returns with new indie-pop earworm
Latvia's finest indie pop band return with a subtly catchy single in multiple languages.
