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AltCtrl co-founder Jade Siren just started a podcast about tabletop RPGs and spooky stuff! Follow Roll For the Reaper and check out the trailer! First full episode comes out next week. \m/

https://open.spotify.com/show/3P09TEiL53OjOf4gryOJlG

Roll for the Reaper Podcast · Jade · A podcast combining discussions about tabletop RPGs and all thinks haunted and spooky.

Hey have you heard about this awesome show? Cvm Rats, My Druthers, Jesse Ahern, and ye olde editor Jessie May at Cherry Street Station 10/11. Be there!

If I had my druthers, I'd post music reviews more often... Oh wait, it's a music review of My Druthers!

My Druthers' Coming Up 3's: The Sea Shanties You Didn't Know You Needed - Alternative Control New London, CT outfit My Druthers puts a 21st century spin on sea shanties of olde with their recent album Coming Up 3’s. It features ten classic songs plus five originals, which flow as seamlessly as waves on the great open ocean. Honestly, the only one I would have picked out as an original is.....

Happy Financial Literacy Month! Fight the oligarchy by not being broke:

Financial Spring Cleaning PLUS, BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Did you know we have, like, articles again?? Here's an interview with Hudson Valley punks Trouble Bound!

New York Punks Trouble Bound: 25 Years and Counting - Alternative Control Imagine a band with Social Distortion’s catchiness, Rancid-esque basslines, and a sneering anger that’s all their own. You might be listening to your new-old favorite punk outfit, Trouble Bound. Hailing from the Hudson Valley, New York, Trouble Bound’s story began in the summer of 1999. The ba...

It’s been a week since Election Day. How are you doing with the victory of The Red Hat?

The Red Hat vs. The Circle of Control I promise I won't tell you my thoughts on the election.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! What are you listening to today?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GDk4wCchviX3ETz9MhGAv?si=we6sCyNLQruMiyvMElDEDg

AltCtrl Halloween Playlist · Jessie May · 26 items · 3 saves

And after almost three years since our last post, the blog is back!

Thanks to The Ghost Wolves for getting us back in action!

THE GHOST WOLVES on Consumer Waste, Band Life with a Kid, and More - Alternative Control HOLY TOLEDO, ALTERNATIVE CONTROL IS BACK! Some things are just hard to get rid of — old electronics, bed bugs, and your favorite underground local-national-international music blog. And now for our first post since December 30, 2021, we bring you THE GHOST WOLVES! This slammin’ Austin punk band ...

Are we coming back?? We might be coming back!

Ye Olde Editor has an interview that needs the best platform…. And this is it! If Al Go Rithm allows you to view this post, stay tuned. 🤟

Thanks Eryka for doing this interview! It's fun getting back into blogging a little more. Looking forward to the new Coma Hole album!

Music and Money with COMA HOLE Lately we've interviewed a few international bands, but this time we're taking things a little bit closer to home! Eryka Fir, bassist and vocalist of psychedelic doom duo Coma Hole, talked with Metalhead Money in advance of the band's album Hand of Severance, due out November 1st, 2024.Known for hau...