45 Best Alternative Rock Blogs and Websites
Alternative Music Blogs
Here are 45 Best Alternative Music Blogs you should follow in 2023
1. Alternative Press Magazine
Cleveland, Ohio, US
A leader in alternative culture news covering everything from new music releases to exclusive artist merchandise. Alternative Press is an American mus...ic magazine based in Cleveland, Ohio.more
altpress.com
1.2M 628.4K 826.4K 4 posts / day DA 82 Get Email Contact
2. Diffuser
New York, US
Diffuser provide Alternative and indie rock music news. Chronicling the past, present and future of alternative music.
diffuser.fm
71.6K 6.6K 9 posts / year DA 69 Get Email Contact
3. Alternative Nation
California, US
Alternative Nation provide news on guitar based alternative rock bands that don't suck from the 90's onwards.
alternativenation.net
72.2K 20.9K 23 posts / week DA 66 Get Email Contact
4. Louder Than War Blog
Manchester, England, UK
Louder Than War is one of the UK's fastest-growing and award-winning music and culture websites. Louder Than War is a music and counter-culture we...bsite and record label that brings you all the latest music latest rock, punk, metal, and alternative music news, album and gig reviews, news and interviews as well as covering counter-culture film, TV, and art.more
louderthanwar.com/..
42.8K 42.4K 9.9K 9 posts / week Sep 2010 DA 67 Get Email Contact
5. Chart Attack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chart Attack is a guide to indie and alternative music, based out of Toronto, Canada, online since 1996. They're dedicated in showcasing great mus...ic that pushes expectations of genre, and getting to know the people who make it through written features and video features.more
chartattack.com
7.9K 28 posts / week Apr 2000 DA 63 Get Email Contact
6. Stereofox
Berlin, Germany
Stereofox is a music blog which helps you discover new indie, alternative and electronic music. Listen, add to favourites and share with friends.
stereofox.com
8K 8.8K 25 posts / week DA 38 Get Email Contact
7. Magnet Magazine | Real Music Alternatives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Real Music Alternatives. Since 1993, MAGNET has published a print magazine, available by subscription and in bookstores and record stores worldwide. M...AGNET has covered independent music through artist profiles, critical reviews, in-depth features and bold photography.more
magnetmagazine.com
16.6K 19.4K 10.5K 6 posts / day DA 61 Get Email Contact
8. Stereo Stickman | Alternative
US
Stereo Stickman is an independent music community & online magazine offering the utmost professional, in depth representation for musicians, producers... & bands who work hard at their craft. Follow Stereo Stickman to check out some of the latest Alternative bands & artists they've covered recently from around the globe.more
stereostickman.com..
2.9K 33.4K 5K 1 post / week DA 38 Get Email Contact
9. Audio Ink Radio
Michigan, US
Audio Ink Radio is the forefront of new music. Rock, metal and alternative music news, interviews, features, song reviews, photos, and more.
audioinkradio.com
13.4K 6.6K 7 posts / week DA 50 Get Email Contact
10. The Alternative
US
The Alternative was created to be the music site that we wanted to exist. A site with impeccable taste, quality content, and intelligent stances on im...portant issues. The Alternative pledges itself to providing you (our readers) with only the best music and art.more
getalternative.com
3.4K 24.4K 1 post / day DA 38 Get Email Contact
11. Soundsphere magazine
York, England, UK
An online and print guide to alternative music (rock, goth, metal, electronic, indie) and culture for the North of England and worldwide. They champio...n alternative music in the North of England and feature bands, artists and culture on a local, national and international level.more
soundspheremag.com
20.5K 5.9K 8.8K 16 posts / week DA 37 Get Email Contact
12. THOUGHTS WORDS ACTION
Serbia
We are a music review blog dedicated to the punk rock genre and related subgenres. Follow along as we dive into the latest releases, Album premieres, ...and review and rank rock albums by your favorite bands. Discover more interesting resources on Punk Rock through our blog.more
thoughtswordsactio..
2.8K 2K 5.4K 30 posts / week DA 24 Get Email Contact
13. A&R Factory | Alternative
London, England, UK
Artist and Repertoire (A&R) blog features upcoming unsigned bands and buzz artists from around the world. Their readership includes independent and ma...jor labels, publishers, management companies, radio station, PR and sync companies from across the world who use our website as a resource to discover and sign acts.more
anrfactory.com/tag..
9K 16.3K 4 posts / week DA 35 Get Email Contact
14. BlackPlastic.co.uk
London, England, UK
BlackPlastic.co.uk is an alternative music blog focused on sharing the best electronic music. It is an alternative music blog focusing on reviews of n...ew album and EP releases.more
blackplastic.co.uk
534 1.8K 2 posts / week DA 33 Get Email Contact
15. Turtle Tempo
London, England, UK
A London-based music blog that cares about new music. We are committed to giving talented indie & alternative music artists the recognition they deser...ve.more
turtletempo.co.uk
1.5K 8.3K 734 3 posts / week Apr 2016 DA 23 Get Email Contact
16. Alt77
Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
Alt77 was created by Eduard Banulescu as a way of honoring his most loyal companion, alternative music. Eduard is a writer and musician. As a singer a...nd guitarist, he has been involved in the alternative music world for many years. He's recorded albums, EPs, and singles as a solo performer, to as a member of a band. The goal of Alt77.com has always been that of reporting on alternative music, classic or modern, through analysis, reviews, interviews.more
alt77.com
937 675 992 1 post / day DA 25 Get Email Contact
17. DIY Conspiracy
Bulgaria
DIY Conspiracy is a website working to represent punk-rock's creative and community-based values with a strong political & ethical focus. We creat...ed this project to support underground artists and to use the Internet as a free and collaborative platform for exchanging information hundreds of news, record reviews, interviews, rants, columns, and many more.more
diyconspiracy.net
5.9K 1K 4.6K 2 posts / week DA 32 Get Email Contact
18. AltCorner
Bristol, England, UK
The corner of the internet for all your alternative and underground music needs. Featuring the latest: news, reviews, interviews, band profiles, and m...ore!more
altcorner.com/reviews
3.2K 3.5K 1.5K 3 posts / week DA 30 Get Email Contact
19. Indie Is Not A Genre
UK
Indie is not a genre is an independent music blog that covers new Indie albums, reviews, interviews and concert livestreams. We are an independent sou...rce for new music from the UK, Australia, Canada and beyond.more
indieisnotagenre.com
3.1K 3K 1.5K 1 post / day DA 35 Get Email Contact
20. Hardcore Punk Rock Blog
California, US
Hardcore Punk Rock Blog shares hardcore music, podcasts, interviews, news and reviews.Punx In Solidarity has extensive knowledge of the punk rock unde...rground. We are a committed and dedicated group of passionate punk rock music fans that enjoy the hardcore lifestyle.more
punxinsolidarity.com
2.6K 1.3K 2 posts / week DA 19 Get Email Contact
21. Spectral Nights
Aldershot, England, UK
Spectral Nights is a place where we get to wax lyrical about bands we like, gigs we've been to, and anything else that takes our fancy - from albu...m reviews to new music videos and the occasional interview, festival review and band playlist.more
spectralnights.com
313 2.3K 1 post / week DA 20 Get Email Contact
22. Neon Filler Blog
UK
Neon Filler was created in 2009 by Joe Lepper and Dorian Rogers. Since then it has grown to include articles by our wonderful bunch of contributors, ...regular Top 10 features and in 2011 we published our Top 100 Indie and Alternative Albums list. Indie Music UK is the home of indie and alt music website.more
neonfiller.com/wor..
856 2.1K 1 post / month Sep 2010 DA 25 Get Email Contact
23. Hard Rock Daddy
Brooklyn, New York, US
Hard Rock Daddy is a place to discover great music, go inside the mind of a modern-day dad and journey with a virtual backstage pass into the lives of... an offbeat, entertaining family.more
hardrockdaddy.com
4.2K 1.5K 1 post / quarter DA 31 Get Email Contact
24. Doubtful Sounds
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Doubtful Sounds is dedicated to bringing you the best news, reviews, interviews and associated ephemera from the wide world of music. From indie and a...mericana to electronica, experimental and metal - we aim to keep you informed across a range of genres.more
doubtfulsounds.net
1.7K 655 1 post / week DA 30 Get Email Contact
25. Alternative Reality
Alternative Reality is an Alternative music blog, featuring alternative music reviews & discussion, 90's Albums Revisits, History of Rock, Holiday Mus...ic Playlists, and Special Editions.more
alternativealbumsb..
5 posts / week Nov 2015 DA 3 Get Email Contact
26. East of 8th Music Blog
Nashville, Tennessee, US
East of 8th covers all things in the indie and alternative music scene. Based out of Nashville, Tennessee, follow us for album and concert reviews, mu...sic festival coverage, music news, and curated playlists. Susan, a self-described life-long band nerd and strong advocate for proper grammar, began her musical adventures at age 9 at a piano keyboard. She named this blog East of 8th because she loves independent and alternative rock, and is lucky enough to live a just a few minutes east of its southern soul.more
eastof8th.com
2.5K 1.5K 878 1 post / quarter DA 20 Get Email Contact
27. Overblown
UK
Overblown Webzine is a UK and Ireland based alternative music website funded by readers, with a focus on community and our readers. Overblown is all a...bout subterreanean music. Whether it is post punk, shoegaze, sludge metal, or noise rock they want to bring these alternative music genres to the fore. more
overblown.co.uk
7.7K 4.4K DA 43 Get Email Contact
28. Rock Sound
UK
Magazine brings you the latest rock, metal, pop-punk and metalcore music news and reviews, music videos and pictures. They are are the real alternativ...e. has consistently been first to cover the best new bands (as well as the biggest ones) in the alternative world.more
rocksound.tv/news
673.9K 400.9K 233.8K 30 posts / year DA 78 Get Email Contact
29. Indie Music Filter
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto-based music blog finding the best new music in the feeds. To the point track features, videos, quick reviews and streaming playlists.
indiemusicfilter.com
8K 18.2K Jan 2006 DA 40 Get Email Contact
30. Indie Underground
London, England, UK
Indie Underground is the creative enterprise of Aaron McMillan and the Indie Underground Contributors. Discover share and support up-and-coming and cu...rrent indie / alternative musicians, developing scenes.more
indieunderground.ca
4.2K 3.5K DA 28 Get Email Contact
31. SparkPlugged
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Fire begins with a spark and we hope we can spread it by plugging amazing music. We're all about great Japanese indie, rock, and electronic music. Fro...m the underground live houses to the event centers to the dark and dank clubs, we work to find fantastic music so we can share it, review it, and talk with the artists who created it.more
sparkplugged.net
382 416 DA 27 Get Email Contact
32. Fashion Grunge | Music
US
In 2008 Lauren was living in New York City and with the birth of the blog culture she felt there was a void in the resurgence and appreciation of the ...visuals behind the grunge and alternative rock of the '90s. What first began as a blog, 7 years later has become a platform for emerging artists, designers, and an exploration of many creative passions.more
fashiongrunge.com/..
109.7K 1.4K 31.8K DA 42 Get Email Contact
33. Either/Or
Dublin, Ireland
Either/Or is an alternative music lover's guide for all kinds of tunes - pop, rock, rap, electronica, dance, metal, lo-fi, punk, indie, alternativ...e, post-rock, shoegaze, synthpop, ambient, acoustic and many more. Albums reviews, lists, and rankings.more
eitherorreviews.com
1.2K 17 posts / year DA 11 Get Email Contact
34. BarryGruff | Alternative/Rock
Dublin, Ireland
BarryGruff is a music blog, based in Dublin, Ireland and the gist is pretty simple; to share some musical musings with a wider audience than my mates ...down the pub or wherever.more
barrygruff.com/cat..
1.1K 2.6K DA 24 Get Email Contact
35. Alternative Friday
London, England, UK
Alternative Friday, which has grown into a music blog that champions talented new and independent musicians, and which covers an eclectic array of gen...res.more
alternativefriday.com
14.5K 2K 1.7K 2 posts / year DA 10 Get Email Contact
36. RottenYoungEarth
An alternative music blog. Find and explore new bands and their submissions on this blog.
rottenyoungearth.b..
1.2K DA 18 Get Email Contact
37. Dr. Vinyl
Brighton, England, UK
Keep up with articles from Dr. Vinyl.
drvinylmag.com
DA 2 Get Email Contact
38. Meeting with Music Makers
Bradford, England, UK
Christian Watson(writer, flaneur, resurrectionist) has met and befriended every music maker that has graced this world with their presence. Here, he t...ells the stories of the chance encounters that have led to so many close, personal friendships.more
meetingwithmusicma..
DA 5 Get Email Contact
39. Primal Music
Dublin, Ireland
Irish based music blog focusing on all things reverb, resonance, vibration & echo, shoegaze, ethereal dreampop, post-punk, modern psych rock.
primalmusicblog.co..
534 Jan 2015 DA 27 Get Email Contact
40. Immersed in cool music | Alternative Indie music
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Carrie likes to explore all music genres, but mostly Alternative/Indie rock. Her music blog (www.immersedincoolmusic.com) started out as a wild, 31 da...y challenge of listening and finding music that connects her head and her heart. She have followers all over the world and she have shared talented bands that you may never have heard before.more
immersedincoolmusi..
1.1K 484 669 4 posts / year DA 8 Get Email Contact
41. Record Crates United | Alternative Music
Record Crates United is a home for wayward music. Artists and sounds from the past and present that may already have or at least deserve to have a cul...t following will have their time here. No matter if the artist is from a major label or self-releasing music from their apartment, everything can be reviewed here.more
recordcratesunited..
1 DA 22 Get Email Contact
42. Indie Interluded
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Indie Interluded is an alternative music blog. They are are indie interluded, a Toronto based indie music blog. Their passion is music and our goal i...s to make a site for every indie music fan. A place for all you enthusiastic culture-vultures to discuss, share and discover the very best that the indie music scene has to offer.more
indieinterluded.com
64 93 DA 4 Get Email Contact
43. mffm's Alternative Rock Music
Germany
mffm is a Alternative Rock music channel, melodic, vocal Rock: Modern Rock, Post-Grunge, Alternative Metal, Christian Rock, Indie Rock, Vocal Rock & B...allads.more
mffmbs.blogspot.com
DA 3 Get Email Contact
44. Holly Melissa Music
A collection of Alternative Music articles, reviews, interviews, and shorter, more frequent blog-style posts. Holly Melissa reviews and recommends alb...ums, records, books, and documentaries, all relating to alternative music. New and old are mixed in harmoniously because she believes good music never ages.more
hollymelissamusic...
6 posts / year DA 1 Get Email Contact
Alternative Music Bloggers
Blogger Name | Blog Link | Total Blog Posts | |
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Djordje Miladinović | thoughtswordsaction.com | 816 | |
Talia Peterson | chartattack.com | 263 | |
Bishal Roy | alternativenation.net | 229 | |
Dom Smith | soundspheremag.com | 122 | |
DJ Rhodes | alternativenation.net | 102 | |
Lu | stereofox.com | 90 | |
Eduard Banulescu | alt77.com | 88 | |
Nasko | stereofox.com | 79 | |
boris | stereofox.com | 70 | |
Mark | alternativealbumsblog.wordpress.com | 66 | |
Amelia Vandergast | anrfactory.com/tag/alternative | 60 | |
Neville Hardman | altpress.com | 41 | |
Jay Mitchell | soundspheremag.com | 39 | |
Dan Carver | soundspheremag.com | 36 | |
Anne Erickson | audioinkradio.com | 35 | |
Brett Buchanan | alternativenation.net | 33 | |
Alessandra Schade | altpress.com | 29 | |
Eduard | alt77.com | 27 | |
Adam Russell | blackplastic.co.uk | 24 | |
Cat Badra | audioinkradio.com | 23 | |
Nora | stereofox.com | 21 | |
Anna Zanes | altpress.com | 19 | |
John Hayhurst | soundspheremag.com | 19 | |
Alessandro DeCaro | altpress.com | 17 | |
Katie Macbeth | indieisnotagenre.com | 17 | |
Holly Rotherham | soundspheremag.com | 16 | |
Charles Ken | audioinkradio.com | 15 | |
Seda | turtletempo.co.uk | 14 | |
Chris Bound | turtletempo.co.uk | 13 | |
Mary Fernandez | chartattack.com | 13 | |
Dustin Schumacher | alternativenation.net | 12 | |
Iain Key | louderthanwar.com/blogs | 12 | |
Rima Coleman | chartattack.com | 10 | |
Subhojeet Mukherjee | alternativenation.net | 10 | |
Sam Smith | soundspheremag.com | 9 | |
Joe | neonfiller.com/wordpress | 8 | |
Azafell | diyconspiracy.net | 7 | |
Callie Petch | soundspheremag.com | 7 | |
David Smith | chartattack.com | 7 | |
johnrobb | louderthanwar.com/blogs | 7 | |
Krisi | stereofox.com | 7 | |
Vicki Evans | altcorner.com/reviews | 7 | |
Alex Maiolo | louderthanwar.com/blogs | 6 | |
Elizabeth Birt | altcorner.com/reviews | 6 | |
Erin Smith | chartattack.com | 6 | |
Jeon | chartattack.com | 6 | |
Peter Porker | chartattack.com | 6 | |
Rebecca Todd | turtletempo.co.uk | 6 | |
Sabrine Bion | chartattack.com | 6 | |
Alexandra Fender | chartattack.com | 5 |