Independent bookstores and record stores are more vulnerable in today's media landscape than they've ever been, and the onset of the Covid-19 global pandemic, further harshens the conditions. This is why the producers of the new documentary on NYC record store Other Music have decided to release their film online through a network of independent […]
Alt Lib Radio Hour is a new livestream performance initiative broadcast every Friday out of the Alternative Library. ALRH understands live-streaming as not merely a response to COVID-19 but a site of indeterminate possibility: where the internet is available, so too is an entire world of art and culture. While intended to transition into (coterminous) […]
Three artists join us this March 26th for a night of ‘sound, song and elegiac trance’, centered thematically around loss, elegy, release and letting go. Eclectic artist K. Kunkel offers us the vocal channeling of grief and surreal, unedited prose with sparse musical accompaniment. Body Conference, the project of writer, artist and theologian Ashley Chambers, […]
This week the ALRH hosts its first satellite show, all the way from Mexico City 😈 We’re excited to feature guest curator @silencio.epi, an experimental label specializing in drones, power electronics, noise and distortion. The artists featured in this week’s lineup include: textural club music from ESE ES ESE, dystopic and pulsating analog loops from […]
THIS WEEK we’re back to live programming, bringing you ethereal ambient pop, modular synths, improv club music and psychedelic, abstract projections. Rain or shine, we’ll be partying, masked and distanced, on Billy Frank this April 9th at 7 PM. Swipe for booking info and covid safety, and read about our artists below. Limanjaya is the […]
E-Mail to RSVP: booking@AltLib.org $8 suggested donation for the artists and the AltLib ALL AGES / NOTAFLOF
Our LAST show in April boasts a *killer* lineup, including high-energy electronic artist Emma Et Cetera, brooding synthpop producer Glitchlette, soulful singer-songwriter glass egg, and the eclectic, quirky DJ Parts Per Million. To RSVP, please email info@altlib.org with your name and the number of tickets you would like to reserve. Suggested donation is $10.
The AltLib Radio Hour continues this week with a set of performances in the backyard and livestreaming on instagram: @bhamaltlib This week features songs, mantras, and incantations from three of Bellingham’s witch squad! $8-10 sliding-scale donations support the performers and the AltLib! NOTAFLOF
Mercury Retrograde Variety Show featuring::: • Spaghetti Feedbag Product Demonstration • Appliance Arkestra • Gump Worsley B-day Altar • Freddy Mercury Retrograde Lip-Synch • and many more surprises! Come dressed as your favorite celestial body, and bring a prepared performative offering if you feel inspired to do so ~ there will be room for some […]
This Friday continues our recent weekly tradition of hosting live backyard performances! This week the flavor is experimental rock music, with two as-yet unheard acts, including who describes himself as a one-man lo-fi electro-math-surf-wave project, combining gameboy and drum machines with live guitar and keyboards to form a multimedia mindmeld. This will also be the […]