The Alternative

08/03/2023

27/05/2021

San Pablo City-based singer/songwriter Mark Dela Cruz releases "Muni-Muni," a four-track EP produced during the lockdown. Check it out!

https://www.thealternativeph.com/mark-dela-cruz-muni-muni/

Mark Dela Cruz It’s been more than a year since the whole country was locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone was and continues to be affected, including musicians. While some were forced into indefinite hiatus, others used the downtime to create new material like San Pablo City, Lag...

29/07/2020

Wacken World Wide Happening Now!

Get your dose of the heaviest metal from the best bands over the globe including our very own Valley Of Chrome this rainy night!

Wacken World Wide Live Stream

29/07/2020

Our friends and Philippines' very own Valley Of Chrome at this year's Wacken World Wide!

Happening tonight, July 29, 2020 at 11PM Manila time!

Watch them here: www.wacken-world-wide.com

Let's support our brothers in metal! 🤘

Streaming TONIGHT at www.wacken-world-wide.com

11pm in the Philippines 🇵🇭
5pm in Germany 🇩🇪

Wacken World Wide
Wacken Open Air
Numinous Philippines

09/03/2020

LB-based metalcore band SkyGrid - PH recently launched their debut EP "Faultless Vision." Check it out!

Photo courtesy of Skygrid. A metalcore fan would appreciate Skygrid’s Faultless Vision, the Los Baños-based band’s debut EP. The five-track EP brings together material put together from…

20/12/2019

We've just learned about the passing of a great artist, Gerry Alanguilan. Rest in power, sir!

Text and photos by: Kimmy Baraoidan

02/10/2019

Happening tomorrow night! Catch BLKD and Calix at Jacques'!

Click the link for more information: https://www.thealternativeph.com/blkd-calix-kolateral-elbi/

Kolateral, Can’t Ctrl, Laguna Hip Hop, and Jacques’present BLKD x CalixLakbay Kolateral: Los Baños October 3, 2019Thursday, 8pmJacques’ RooftopLopez Ave., Los Baños With performan…

26/09/2019

The boys behind Kolateral are coming to Elbi!

Catch BLKD and Calix on Thursday night, October 3 at Jacques' Rooftop. For more information, CLICK the link: https://www.thealternativeph.com/blkd-calix-kolateral-elbi/

Presented by Kolateral, Can't Ctrl, Laguna Hip Hop, and Jacques' in partnership with Gold Steps Productions.

Kolateral, Can’t Ctrl, Laguna Hip Hop, and Jacques’present BLKD x CalixLakbay Kolateral: Los Baños October 3, 2019Thursday, 8pmJacques’ RooftopLopez Ave., Los Baños With performan…

20/09/2019

BREAKING GROUND: The UPLB Abstract Show is an exhibition that features the works of eight Filipino abstract artists—Binong Javier, Lara Latosa, Herbert Pajarito, Michael Pastorizo, Jay Ragma, Beatrix Syjuco, Valen Valero, and Meneline Wong.

What will greet viewers are vibrant colors, perfectly straight lines, dancing swirls, and shapes and figures that can only be seen and juxtaposed in the mind's eye.

READ: https://www.thealternativeph.com/breaking-and-gaining-ground/

Text and photos: Kimmy Baraoidan and Chris Quintana

13/09/2019

HEROES AS TATTOOS. It's not often that we see faces of heroes permanently inked on skin. At Tatú: Tatak ng Kasaysayan, 2nd Laguna Tattoo Competition, two tattoo artists chose to do portraits of two well-known heroes from Laguna.

READ: http://thealternativeph.com/heroes-as-tattoos

Text and photos: Kimmy Baraoidan and Chris Quintana

11/09/2019

HEROES AS TATTOOS. It's not often that we see faces of heroes permanently inked on skin. At Tatú: Tatak ng Kasaysayan, 2nd Laguna Tattoo Competition, two tattoo artists chose to do portraits of two well-known heroes from Laguna.

READ: https://www.thealternativeph.com/heroes-as-tattoos/