Skip to main content
The Alternative Tone Team! 
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 


Get In Touch!
As kids who sit around all day listening to indie rock, we are lonely souls who are dying for you to get in contact with us!

If you want us to cover your music through a review, an interview, an exclusive, a good old fashioned news post, a free download or any other new-fangled way, contact us on the following email address:

thealternativetone@yahoo.ie

If you want to give us feedback on the site, want to write with us or fancy a nice chat, contact Kelly on:

digitalashstaticprevails@gmail.com

If you can't get enough of The Alternative Tone (who could blame you), you can give us a like on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, check out our Youtube channel or listen to our favourite tunes over on our Bandcamp!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Funnily Enough, It Was Amicable

Guitarist Jake Langley has parted ways with Handguns. The departure was mutual and amicable. Handguns will still be taking part on their upcoming tour with Set It Off supporting their brand new record  Angst,  out now on Pure Noise Records.   Tour Dates w/ Set It Off, Sparks The Rescue Nov 03           Sons of Hermann Hall Dallas , TX Nov 04           White Rabbit San Antonio , TX Nov 05           Geo's Mcallen , TX Nov 06           The Parish Austin , TX Nov 08           The Underground Mesa , AZ Nov 09           The Backyard Yuma , AZ Nov 10            Soma   San Diego , CA Nov 11 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

McCafferty Split Up

Sadly, Ohio folk/pop/punkers McCafferty have decided to split up. Read their statement below. Dear Everyone, I'm sorry. It is with great sadness and excitement that I inform you all that McCafferty is coming to an end. I am going to be starting to teach soon, and I am required to get a background check, and I don't believe tha t McCafferty is a professional, respectful representation of myself as a newly trained teacher entering the field of Special Education. Music will always have a place in my heart, but my true passion is teaching. I am leaving the scene of DIY antics to follow my pursuit into adulthood, and I am so happy to have shared my bands music with you all. We truly are the essence of a real DIY band. We came into the scene as a dying star that was doomed to go out in the near future, and that time is now. I have already deleted our twitter/other social media websites but I feel that you all deserve an explanation of what is happening. To all the kids who listen...
Post a Comment
Read more

Early In The Morning by James Vincent McMorrow (2010) (Review)

  I've  decided to create a new genre. I call it “beardcore”. Scene heads generally make confessional folk music recorded alone in some isolated building (cabin, hut, beach house etc.) with only acoustic guitars, banjos and whatnot for company. Oh, and they have beards. Now you may think to yourself, ‘This will never take off! How silly of her!’ and, given most of my genre creating, you’d be right (Oberstcore never did take off…), but this scene is not just existing, but is currently thriving. The newest beardcore artist is James Vincent McMorrow’. Joining Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes in the genre, McMorrow hails from the not so green isle of Ireland and is making waves with his debut album Early In The Morning , eleven tracks of atmospheric indie-folk with intelligent musicianship, and more intelligent lyrics. The album starts off with “If I Had A Boat” an initially a capella, atmospheric grower. Starting off quietly, it eases the listener into the record with McMorrow...
Post a Comment
Read more