Enticing, sometimes challenging, music from the vast underground for thirsty ears and enquiring minds: post-punk, instrumental, math rock, avant, jazz, electronic, indie, funk and global grooves. Kerry has been mashing up independent, non-commercial sounds that cross disciplines and decades since 1987.
Guest host this week: Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers
Playlist:
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Galactic symphony – Persian skies
Donner Party Reunion - Farewell to Nova Scotia
The FreeJazz WallPaper™ - Jungle wallpaper
Okonski - Easy
Érick d'Orion - Ectoplasme
Candice Hoyes - Expecting
Assa’d Khoury - Ya shadil alhan
Super scintillant - Un
Iggy & The Stooges - Doojiman
Ziad Rahbani - Bharf esheen
Mark Guiliana - B. EAT
Pat Metheny with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - H & H
Tom Teasley with Dave Ballou - Elephant dance
The Beatles - I'm looking through you (second version – take 3)
Adrian Younge - Shake down
Molly Pease - Luminescent waves
Kate Gentile - Importunate babble
Iron & Wine - Around the well
Paula Jeanine Bennett, Richard X Bennett - Writings rewrite
Sun Ra - Infinity of the universe
9 Oct 2026
Alternative To What? - Episode October 8, 2026
Playlist:
Jon Mckiel - order
alabaster deplume - what can it take
animal collective - strung with everything
Arab Strap - dollar pak
Winter - nicotine w/eyedress
True Quiet - god's eye view
nick cave & the bad seeds - night raid
ada lea - copycat
Horse Lords - first galactic utopia
phrequed - woke joke
audrey ochoa - trashy mcdorkloser
Louis Gardner - wasted days
beverly glenn copeland - la vida
big star - kangaroo
Sera Cahoone - say something
big thief - no fear
Lambchop - white people
Horse Lords - before the law
CG Tears - batsbats
cate le bon - are you with me now?
wayfinding - shrapnel
Picastro - believer end
wayfinding - sudden water
Various Artists - heartbeat of my mother by Celyne Gaspe
Kon-Fusion - palo santos
6 Oct 2026
Alternative To What? - Episode October 1, 2026
Playlist:
Terror/Cactus - Transmission Clandestino
Andrew Bird - Bloodless
Jeff Parker - Get Dressed
The Neighborhood Kids - Biddi Bomb
Double Header - Djanto
Deltron 3030 - Virus
Tarik Robinson - Bogotá
Florida BC - One Two and Three Eyes
N NAO - Fleuron (feat. Helena Deland)
Copperhead - Touch
Eric Cheneaux - Skullsplitter
SUUNS - Up Past The Nursery
Picastro - Fell The Family Tree
Emeliano Torrini - Black Water
Jon Mckiel - Past Life
Arab Strap - Be A Man
funky porcini - This Ain't The Way To Live
Tasuta N-Imal - Tayerza
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