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Kelly Doherty 
Editor/ Owner

Kelly established The Alternative Tone back in the ancient times of summer 2012. An avid fan of sad songs written by sad boys with sad guitars, Kelly chooses to live a life based on the lyrics of The Smiths' Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. Her favourite albums in descending order (as of 21:22 on 22/2/14) are:

Arcade Fire's Funeral
Bright Eyes' Lifted
Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowded West
Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism 
Brand New's Deja Entendu 
The Smiths' The Smiths 
Old Gray's An Autobiography 
Bon Iver's For Emma, For Ever Ago 

She listens mainly to emo and folk but sometimes she looses the run of herself and dances to Two Door Cinema Club. Apart from music, Kelly's passions are the movies of Wes Anderson, debating about International Relations, spending weekends in universities pretending to be in the UN and reading Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius over and over and over again.

She also hopes you enjoy her humble site and is starting to feel a little pretentious because she's spent the last while writing about herself in the third person so she's going to stop now.


Ben Curttright 
Reviewer/ Contributor


Ben Curttright is a creative writing student from Omaha, Nebraska. He plays guitar for indiepunk nobodies Rex Manning and reviews music for Funeral Sounds. Also, he has one of Tim Kinsella's guitar picks.




Joe Franks 
Reviewer / Contributor

Mike McGrath Bryan
Reviewer / Contributor 




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