The Alternative Music Playlist #42: April / May / June / July / August 2023

The Alternative Music Playlist #42: April / May / June / July / August 2023

The Very Best in New Alternative Music

April - August 2023

Hi. How are you? It’s been a minute but I’ve got something to tell you… The Alternative Music Playlist IS BACK!!!

It’s crazy to think the last one of these came out in April… but it does mean we’ve got an absolute shit tonne of cracking new tunes for your aural delight. This is 15 hours of curated alternative music. Expect rap, metal, dance, indie, ambient, alternative rock and everything in between. Let it become the soundtrack to your life for the next few months.

Follow The Alternative Music Playlist, share it, slap it on shuffle, tag us on the socials with your favourite tracks and don’t forget to send the artists plenty of love too!

Don’t waste any more time; get your lugs round it.

Listen on the embedded player or at Spotify / YouTube / Soundcloud / Deezer at the links below.

Thanks to GRM ART (@_grm_art) for the cover art found on Commercial Street, Leith.

Featuring: Sustinere - Tired,

Sugar Horse - Thrash Music,

Tokky Horror - Toilet,

Dancer - Chris Whitty's Inner World,

They Watch Us from the Moon! - Mother of All Bastards,

Beige Palace - Waterloo Sublet,

Casual Drag - Bleach Head,

Crostpaths - I Am The Liquor,

The Wife Guys of Reddit - Post-punk Experiment #3 (A Bigger Splash),

Bemz - RAGING BULL,

Scowl - Sold Out,

HMLTD - Past Life (Sinnerman's Song),

Destroy Boys - Beg For The Torture,

Wednesday - Got Shocked,

Texture - Non Zero,

The Linda Lindas - Too Many Things,

billy woods - FaceTime,

Inkfields - Smile for the Camera,

BERRIES - Control,

SUDS - My Own Mind,

Metallica - 72 Seasons,

Empyre - Parasites,

KRYTICAL MASS - SH^RK B01,

Jesus Piece - FTBS,

Skyzoo - Blue and Orange Everything,

Beach Fossils - Dare Me,

whenyoung - Unchained,

Dahlia - Keep Running,

bdrmm - Be Careful,

ferna - bleed,

Marlody - Runaway,

Moodring - BLACK_WAVE,

The Lemon Twigs - Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life,

Extranauts - Lazarus,

Shambolics - Never Gonna Change,

Laveda - Surprise,

Cagri Raydemir - Justifiable Hands to Play,

Thom Southern - Love Hz,

Dudu Tassa - Ashufak Shay (feat. Rashid Al Najjar),

Eliades Ochoa - Se Soltó un León,

Ali Farka Touré - Safari,

MAN ON MAN - Showgirls,

Bob Vylan - Pretty Songs - Tokky Horror Remix,

Bully - Hard to Love,

The Landed - Rage for the Machine,

Enter Shikari - goldfĭsh ~,

Benefits - Traitors,

The Noise Who Runs - Beautiful Perhaps,

Jody and the Jerms - Insatiable,

Grove Street - Lessons of the Past,

DEADLETTER - The Snitching Hour,

The Amity Affliction - Show Me Your God,

Dååth - The Philosopher (feat. Dan Sugarman, Ice Nine Kills & Rafael Trujillo),

Æ MAK - Shimmer Boy,

Withered Hand - Feelings,

Predatory Void - *(struggling..),

The Clientele - Blue Over Blue,

Palehound - The Clutch,

The Chisel - Shit Life Syndrome,

The Early Purple - Big Mistake,

Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll,

Neska Lagun - Fahnenflucht,

Redolent - Space Cadet,

Napoleon Da Legend - Soldats,

Napoleon Da Legend - Rubik's Cube,

Washer - Fail Big,

Sad Boys Club - Delicious,

Therapy? - Poundland of Hope and Glory,

A Certain Ratio - 1982,

The Research - Back To The Real World,

Gouge Away - Idealized,

Toodles & The Hectic Pity - The Enemies of Happiness Are Not Napping!,

Napoleon Da Legend - Food,

Cattle Decapitation - Dead End Residents,

Teeth - Hate Me,

BIG SPECIAL - SHITHOUSE - Single Edit,

Riiver Brukes - Time Will Tell,

billy woods - Year Zero,

comfort - No Honest Work,

Panic Pocket - Get Me,

The Gulps - Surrender,

Heavy Lungs - Dancing Man,

Modern Woman - Achtung,

Monograms - Hi Low,

Conscious Route - White Vicious,

Aramis - You Are The Enemy,

Indigo De Souza - You Can Be Mean,

200 Stab Wounds - Masters of Morbidity,

Lakes - Chablis,

Karaba F.C. - In the Violence,

pMad - Fire,

URNE - Becoming The Ocean,

The Hi-Tops - Shiver,

Opus Kink - Dust,

Jo Bartlett - Floating Through,

Can't Swim - must be nice (metaphorically speaking),

Evidence of a struggle - Alan's Song,

Lambrini Girls - Mr Lovebomb,

Feral Family - Spice King,

Gozu - Tom Cruise Control,

Hannah Rose Platt - Tango with Your Fear,

Michael J. Benjamin - The Same Again,

Phoxjaw - tortoise - edit,

Sylvan Esso - Didn't Care - Live At Electric Lady,

Joe Billy - No Sympathy,

Sleep Token - Vore,

Mugshot - Left in the Wake,

Creeper - Cry To Heaven,

Milanku - À l'aube; prêchant la mauvaise nouvelle,

Steve Hewitt - Jealous Man,

HENGE - Ra,

Larkhall - Eleven Japanese Streams - James Yuill Rework,

The Dirty Nil - Celebration,

Truth Ruiner - The Absent Throne,

Billy Got Waves - Heaven,

Humour - The Halfwit,

Dizraeli - Oi Oi (Live),

Contrasts - Release Me,

Tigercub - Play My Favourite Song,

The Fades - Off the Record,

Pupil Slicer - No Temple,

OMA - C.R.E.A.M. (Live Instrumental) - Cover,

Lipphead - Midnight Brain to Georgia,

Silky Steps - I Like It, I Love It,

Zulu - Wait and Bleed - Spotify Singles,

PUP - How To Live With Yourself,

Philip Seth Campbell - Magical West,

Nadine Khouri - Song of a Caged Bird - Barry Adamson Remix,

Trouser Dress - Dandelion & Burdock,

LURK - Dark Humor,

Treeboy & Arc - Behind The Curtain,

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Who's Watching Me,

Amy Bell - Why Be Happy,

Karen Harding - Devil In The Mirror,

Mothman and The Thunderbirds - All Star,

Regent - Can't You See,

Apollo Brown - Golden Chakras,

Fiddlehead - Sullenboy,

C-Steezee - Pain,

Paradime - LXG '11,

Spanish Love Songs - Clean-Up Crew,

Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow,

Rivers of Nihil - The Sub-Orbital Blues,

Teri Gender Bender - You Won The Man,

Gorilla Wizard - No Replacement for Displacement,

Hot Milk - PARTY ON MY DEATHBED,

Dead Pony - MK Nothing,

KEN Mode - The Shrike,

really big really clever - hu hurt u,

Friendship Commanders - Fail,

TARiiiQ - CHERRY BOMB (PT. 2),

Austin Dean Ashford - Black Harry Potter,

Champion Poundcake - DRAMACIDAL,

Kool Keith - The Formula (feat. Marc Live & Ice-T),

Housekind - Salt Shield,

Youth Sector - The Ball,

Cannibal Corpse - Blood Blind,

Trophy Eyes - Blue Eyed Boy,

Pigeon Wigs - Radiation Blues,

Octophant - Stairs,

Baroness - Last Word,

Snõõper - Powerball,

Dolly Parton - Bygones (feat. Rob Halford),

Skating Polly - Rabbit Food,

TRIBEZ. - My Storm Is My Calm - Shuko Remix,

Amerigo Gazaway - Last Night,

Daneshevskaya - Somewhere In The Middle,

Nation of Language - Weak In Your Light - Daniel Avery Remix,

Militarie Gun - Do It Faster,

RXPTRS - The World on My Tongue,

The Armed - Sport of Form,

Better Lovers - 30 Under 13,

Rudi Zygadlo - Somewhere In Glasgow,

Hospital Corner - Seasonal Change,

Isadora Eden - Still,

Entering Polaris - The Light At The Edge Of The Earth,

LYR - Living Legend,

Suburban Spell - Bright Gold Cross,

Sophia Petro - Leave,

Guitarmy of One - Top Secret Agent Man on a Wire Tapped Phone at Sea,

The 3 Clubmen - Look At Those Stars,

Asinhell - Fall of the Loyal Warrior,

Model Home - Leaky Home Simulator 2031,

Death Ray Vision - Reaper,

IOTUNN - Mistland,

Tantrum Zentrum - Don't Be A Fascist,

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate - Burn the World,

Wytch Hazel - Angel of Light,

Blood Command - Forever Soldiers Of Esther,

Vintage Trouble - Alright Alright,

The Paper Kites - Black & Thunder,

The Scratch - Latchico,

Wolf & Moon - Lost & Low,

YUNGMORPHEUS - The Price,

Joell Ortiz - OG,

Mary Jane Dunphe - Stage of Love,

UnityTX - ROC SH!T,

Sad Park - NO MORE SOUND,

Kiefer - Dreamer,

CR and the Nones - The Long Game,

The Beths - I Told You That I Was Afraid (Acoustic),

Denmark Vessey - Marionette Flex (feat. Nolan the Ninja & Fly Anakin),

With Honor - My Anchor,

Cognitive - Rot Eternal,

Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam - Apocalypse,

Gramma Vedetta - Space Farmer,

Chamber - Retribution,

Svalbard - Faking It,

Oxbow - Lovely Murk,

Blind Equation - you betrayed the ones you loved,

Code Orange - Take Shape (feat. Billy Corgan),

The Kills - LA Hex,

Kryptik - Heathens,

Shadow Smile - Suck the World Dry,

Radio Aftermath - Fetid,

The Legendary Ten Seconds - The Siege of Plymouth,

Fatboi Sharif - Ash Wednesday,

Apollo Brown - Get The Dough Off,

Harms Way - Silent Wolf,

Willie J Healey - Woke Up Smiling,

Ash - Like A God,

Max Winter - Lean Into Me,

Capra - Tied Up,

Candid Faces - Coming Home,

The Zenith Passage - Deletion Cult,

Silent Planet - Antimatter,

Hollow Front - Letting Go,

Paradime - Period.,

Skinny Pelembe - Deadman Deadman Deadman,

Slow Pulp - Doubt,

ME REX - Eutherians (Ultramarine),

Glen Hansard - The Feast Of St. John,

Cult of Sobek - Lord of the Crocodile,

X Ambassadors - Friend For Life (with Medium Build),

Arlo Parks - Pegasus (ft. Phoebe Bridgers),

Free Love - All The Same To Me - Maranta Remix,

Grandaddy - The Town where I'm Livin Now,

Fire Up The Sun - Nae One Gives A Fuck (Part Three),

Steve Marino - Tune You Out,

Conscious Route - Galactic (feat. Wends),

Hotline TNT - Protocol,

Nuclear Power Trio - !Vamos, Brandito!,

Dream Wife - Kick In The Teeth,

Allman Brown - Bewildered,

Forty Foot - Melty Brains,

Void Of Vision - Angel Of Darkness,

Bug Facer - Prod,

Echo Ladies - Fabrik,

CLT DRP - Nothing Clever Just Feelings,

GRAVELLE - Forever,

JayWood - Dirk Gently (Know Yourself),

McKowski - Return of the Pygmy pony,

Ade - One of Us,

With Honor - Open Hands,

Armand Hammer - Trauma Mic