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31/10/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Project Vela

Here at The New Alt, we love to know more about great songs and the meaning behind them. That’s why we started this series, The Meaning Behind The Melody, where we pull back the curtain and take a …

20/09/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Salvo - Crime Of The Century

Here at The New Alt, we love to know more about great songs and the meaning behind them. That’s why we started this series, The Meaning Behind The Melody, where we pull back the curtain and take a …

31/05/2022

The meaning behind the melody Half Heard Voices https://thenewalt.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/the-meaning-behind-the-melody-half-heard-voices-sounds-of-panic/

Half Heard Voices is an American progressive metal band founded in Frederick, Maryland. The group’s sonics treat the user to a myriad of ambient guitar harmonies and clean vocals, then quickly tran…

31/05/2022

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Prolific rapper, writer, voice actor and animator mc chris has announced his final tour ever! Slowed down by Covid, a divorce and his new role as a single dad, mc chris (never capitalized inte…

26/05/2022

Presale for DCXPC Live Vol 5 is live now!

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DCxPC Live has announced the release of DCxPC Live Vol 5: Grave Return and The Hamiltons. The album was recorded at a party thrown by DCxPC Live. For Grave Return, the album was just about get…

20/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Morning In May

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Cleveland, Ohio’s Morning In May is back with his brand new single “Deterior Design”. For those not familiar, Morning In May (often stylized MIM) is the musical vessel of singer-songwriter Jake Bar…

18/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: New Vision - In The Garden

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New Vision is a band from Hudson Valley, NY. Their unique, yet familiar sound touches back on the late 90s and early 2000s surge of indie/emo rock. Whether you’re a fan of the genre or just a casua…

17/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody - mothaltar - Original Vision

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Hailing from the Dallas TX, mothaltar blurs the line across different genres with their dedication to combining complex, blistering riffs with beautifully cinematic soundscapes. Their lat…

17/05/2022

Review: CyberTooth Go High Concept On "Cold Reaction"

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Cybertooth is at the beginning of an album cycle it seems, and it looks like they’ve cooked up a fun concept for the release. To catch you up, Cybertooth is a rock band from Myrtle Beach, SC …

03/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: To Begin Anew - The Victory

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To Begin Anew was born in January of 2020 when brothers Cody Boyette and Casey Wagner began writing music together. They began seeking out musicians of similar backgrounds and interests to join and…

02/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Call In Dead - Patriarchy

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Orlando Florida’s Call In Dead are back with their latest track “Patriarchy“, the first song featuring their new vocalist Ripley. The band features four veteran punk rockers, who blend their diffe…

02/05/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: FoKuS - Natural Beauty

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Luke “Fokus” Uddenberg grew up in a musical household in Toronto, Canada to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father, whose joint love of reggae, calypso, and pop were instilled early into the musi…

11/04/2022

Modern Andy and Lowlegs Team Up Again

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St. Louis, MO Triphop artist Modern Andy has teamed up again with electronic duo lowlegs for their second single together, “Backmasking”. The single blends dron…

11/04/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Home Invasion

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Home Invasion is an atmospheric blackened blues duo from North Dakota that combines elements of post-rock, country, black metal, and spoken word. Through rabbit hole loops and unsettling aesthetics…

30/03/2022

The Meaning Behind The Music: Less Than None

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Since the band’s inception in 2011, Less Than None has had a tremendous impact on the underground music scene of NYC. Less Than None have been featured on media outlets such as Bullspike Radi…

25/03/2022

The Meaning Behind THe Melody: Ross Rocco

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California singer, songwriter and producer Ross Rocco has just dropped his latest single “Speak Easy”. The song features writing and production from Jon Romero and vocals from Gabe Reas…

15/03/2022

Exclusive Premiere: Jamie Stoffa - Try To Forget

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Jamie Stoffa is a genre-bending multi-instrumentalist based out of Washington, D.C. who blends elements of pop, rock, and post-hardcore with modern production to create a signature sound that is&nb…

08/03/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody - I Fight Fail

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Canton, Ohio, alt-rock scene stalwarts I Fight Fail has released their newest single, the darkly anthemic “Faded (feat. AJ Perdomo)”. The song features AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer, giving th…

25/02/2022

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Modern Andy f

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St. Louis, MO Triphop artist Modern Andy has released their newest single, the very chill “Demonized/ :Reimagined” featuring electronic duo Lowlegs. The song itself is an ambient vibe, sure to be p…

14/02/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Libricide - Over Everything

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Libricide is a multi-faceted modern rock band based out of NYC, fusing styles and taking stages to create an original sonic experience that broadens your mind and gets stuck in your head. Holding d…

11/02/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody - Novustory - Love Me Too

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Blackburn, UK, alt-rock band, Novustory, has released their newest single, “Love Me Too”, out now on Regent Street Records. Melodic and polished, the song highlights the bands’ versatility ab…

09/02/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Midnight Foolishness

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Brooklyn, New York’s Midnight Foolishness has released a new music video for their single, “The Reasons We Don’t Talk Anymore” off of their album Use Your Head Not Your Hands. One…

09/02/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Lives Lost - Brighter Days
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Hummelstown, PA post-hardcore band Lives Lost has released their newest single, the heavy yet melodic “Brighter Days”. It’s a really great track for fans of bands like AFI. But what is the m…

03/02/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Faith louise music

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Hailing from Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, UK, Pop artist Faith Louise has released her new single, “Wanna Feel” on Regent Street Records. “Wanna Feel” is the 6th single from the y…

03/02/2022

Fairshake Order Up Another Round

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Atlanta, GA, alternative rock band Fairshake has released their newest single, “Another Round” – the second track to drop from their upcoming release, High Risk. “An…

24/01/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Alex Addy

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Currently, Alex Addy goes by Mr. Addy. He is going on his sixth year teaching 2nd graders how to rock. Lately, he thinks he is Bob Marley crossed with Bob Dylan. From the looks of it he will be …

24/01/2022

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Cruel Hope

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Cruel Hope is not a band. Rather, it is the embodiment of a generation’s bitter struggle to accept that the world they were promised no longer exists, brought to life in the form of modern alternat…

20/12/2021

The Meaning Behind The Melody: Faith Amari

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Just three years into her music career, Chicago-based artist Faith Amari pushes boundaries while bringing awareness to various topics going on in the world. To cope with all the trauma she faced gr…

15/12/2021

Ohio Indie Label Punkerton Records Releases "HELL IS OHIO" Compilation To Benefit FOOD NOT BOMBS

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Columbus, Ohio’s Punkerton Records has just released Hell Is Ohio Vol 1 digitally on Bandcamp and on cd at www.punkertonrecords.com. The compilation features 27 Ohio- exclusive artists that f…

15/12/2021

The Meaning Behind The Melody: LOUD LOVE

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Philadelphia rock band Loud Love has just dropped the official video for their single “Heavyweight”, the official song of Mission Pro Wrestling! The track, which has gone on to win regi…