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The Alternative Tone Moves To A Better Place

Hello folks! Kelly Doherty here. Just a note to say that we've moved the world of The Alternative Tone to a real life website complete with a shiny new everything. Head over to www.thealternativetone.com to carry on your journey with the site!  Thanks to every single one of you who is responsible for 63,000 views that we picked up over the last two years. It makes me so stoked that people would care about all these little bands enough to seek them out with us.  Here's to another two years!  Kelly, Editor <3 
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Funeral For A Friend & Boysetsfire To Release Split

Funeral For A Friend and Boysetsfire are releasing a split 7" together on May 13th.
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Interview: Enemies (April 4, 2014)

Who is Enemies and what's your story so far? Enemies is Eoin Whitfield, Lewis Jackson and myself (Mark O'Brien). Almost seven years ago Eoin brought us together to make a live band from one of his bedroom projects. Fast forward to 2014 and we've released two albums, three EPs and have toured parts of Europe, America and Asia that we never imagined we'd even visit, never mind perform in. Safe to say it's all worked out very nicely. How was 2013  for the band? It was definitely a roller coaster year compared to any before it. With the help of some fantastic friends we recorded and released our second album Embark, Embrace . We toured pretty extensively and at the end of it all had a very amicable parting with Oisín Trench, who'd been drumming with us since the band's formation. There were a lot of euphoric highs and some pretty tough periods too. I don't think we'd change a thing about 2013 though, it was a really valuable learning curve f
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Jake Bellows Announces Tour Dates

Jake Bellows has announced a bunch of tour dates. Check them out below!  Jake Bellows Tour Dates 04.27 - Scottsdale, AZ @ The Rogue Bar 04.28 - Santa Fe, NM @ Duel Brewing 04.29 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive 04.30 - Omaha, NE @ The Slowdown 05.24 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry * 05.28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge * 05.30 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux * 05.31 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile * 06.01 - Portland, OR @ The Doug Fir * 06.03 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall * 06.04 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bootleg * 06.06 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah * 06.07 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Constellation Room * 06.10 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada * 06.11 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 * 06.13 - Norman, OK @ Opolis * 06.14 - St. Louis, MO @ Firebird * * with Margot & The Nuclear So and So's  
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Tokyo Police Club Now Streaming

Head to The New York Times to stream Tokyo Police Club 's new album Forcefield .
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