Slightly Stoopid are turning up the volume and hitting the open road with “Backseat Drivin’,” featuring Wiz Khalifa and G. Love, this week’s ThePier.org Song of the Week on the Skratch N Sniff Alt Show. Landing in this weekend’s nationally syndicated mix, “Backseat Drivin’” brings together three artists whose music has long been associated with […]
Dev Lemons has never separated music from personality. Long before her songs began reaching a wider alternative audience, she was building an online world where music theory, surreal humor, sharp commentary and DIY creativity could exist alongside one another. Her new single “eat the pavement” brings those different sides of her career together in one
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SNS returned for the weekend of July 11 with two packed shows that pushed rock and alternative music far beyond their traditional boundaries. Rock Mix #1222 leaned into heavy guitars, aggressive electronic production and some of the biggest names in hard rock, while Alternative Mix #706 balanced fresh releases with inventive remixes of songs that
Social Distortion Bring the Grit to This Week’s Skratch N Sniff Alt and Rock Shows With a Mike Ness Mini Mix This week on Skratch N Sniff, the guitars get louder, the attitude gets sharper and the whole show gets a dose of Southern California punk rock history as Social Distortion take over both the
If you missed this weekend’s Skratch N Sniff mixes, now is the time to run them back. Rock Mix #1219 and Alternative Mix #703 both went live over the weekend of June 20, 2026, bringing another full round of rock, alternative, remixes, mashups, new music, and familiar favorites flipped the SNS way. Both shows are
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Iration’s “Shoyu” is this week’s The Pier.org Feature Song on Skratch N Sniff’s Alt Mix, bringing the band’s island-rooted reggae-rock sound to the nationally syndicated remix show. The track comes from Iration’s latest album Where It All Began, which arrived May 1, 2026. The 14-song album finds the longtime reggae-rock favorites reconnecting with the sounds
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The Paradox are taking the next big step. Fresh off their breakout NPR Tiny Desk performance for Black Music Month and the release of their new single “Good For Me,” the Atlanta rock band have announced their first-ever coast-to-coast headline tour. The Fall 2026 run kicks off October 14 in Dallas, Texas and wraps November
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O.A.R. have returned with a new single, “Legacy,” featuring Citizen Cope and G. Love & Special Sauce. The track brings together three longtime voices from the alternative, roots, rock and jam-adjacent worlds, connecting O.A.R.’s arena-sized songwriting with the soulful perspective of Citizen Cope and the bluesy, hip-hop-inflected style that has defined G. Love’s career for
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Riot Fest has revealed the official by-day lineups for its 2026 return to Douglass Park in Chicago, setting the stage for another massive weekend of punk, rock, alternative, hip-hop and left-field festival chaos. The festival takes place September 18 through 20 and will feature more than 100 artists across three days. Friday will be headlined
Southern California alternative rock outfit Strange Case have announced their new album, Gone For A While, a project the band describes as the clearest realization yet of the sound they have been working toward for the past decade. The album marks a major new chapter for Strange Case, who have spent nearly 10 years carving
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