Alternative Friday

It’s that time to review how lively the new music scene has been in 2023, and the quality hasn’t disappointed! Over the months the Evolving Tunes playlist has done exactly that, containing cl...

https://alternativefriday.com/2023/12/08/evolving-2023/

For a hand-picked and evolving mixtape of impressive music from new, emerging, and under the radar artists, do head to this Spotify playlist. It’s always an eclectic selection too, covering not...

https://alternativefriday.com/2023/01/06/evolving-tunes/

As always, music from new and under the radar artists has continued to impress in 2022, and so here’s a ‘best of the best’ selection from the 1000s of tracks I’ve heard across the past 12...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/12/16/the-best-of-2022-mixtape/

The Evolving Tunes playlist has done exactly that again this year, so as it draws to a close here’s an eclectic playlist with 25 of the best tracks to have appeared since January. It contains a...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/12/02/evolving-2022/

From 2020’s It’s Cool to this year’s Fever Dream, I’ve loved the warm & contagious “beat-driven melancholy” made by Prague born, and now London based artist and producer David Zbirka,...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/11/16/q-a-sunnbrella/

It’s always a challenge to trim the Mixtape longlist down to the ten chosen tracks, and it was a tougher task than usual to come to this selection, so dig in and enjoy an rousing array of art-p...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/11/06/mixtape-22-6/

Ahead of the release of their second album It’s Not Comfortable To Grow, on Sep 30th, the stunning Isle of Wight band Plastic Mermaids have released Elastic Time, a poignant track which highli...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/09/23/plastic-mermaids-elastic-time/

There’s a fabulous array of genres on display in this latest mixtape, from art-pop and cinematic rock to RnB & jazz-funk, via the usual sprinkling of indie & alternative. All come from impressi...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/09/05/mixtape-22-5/

The Fresh on the Net ‘school year’ has come to an end, and we’re now on our summer break, but we’ve had an incredible array of impressive music uploaded to us over the past 11 months, and...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/07/27/schools-out-21-22/

The final Mixtape before the summer break, both here and at Fresh on the Net, allows us to wander through another eclectic array of wonderful songs from new and emerging talent. In this selection...

https://alternativefriday.com/2022/07/04/mixtape-22-4/