Alternative Addiction was an American daily

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publication devoted to

music criticism ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus was on

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. It was in operation from 1999 to 2020.

History

The website was originally created in 1999 by editor-in-chief Chad Durkee. The site concentrated on new music, but its journalists also reviewed reissued albums and box sets. It had also begun garnering a following for its extensive coverage of

underground music Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. Underground music is intimately tied to popular music culture as a whole, so there are important tensions within underground ...

. In 2013, Alternative Addiction released unsigned band compilations, started its first online store, a digital downloads section, and had a message board and mailing list with over ten thousand subscribers. ''Alternative Addiction'' worked with

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, and

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among others. It featured the latest news, interviews, record reviews, as well competitions. The site has published "best-of" lists as annual features detailing the best albums and tracks of each year since 2002. The site also published a rock chart which was based on readers' votes. Charts were announced on Tuesday and featured twenty tracks and ten albums. On December 15, 2020, Alternative Addiction seized publication. The website URL was taken over by a rehabilitation directory called "Alternative to Addiction".

References

External links

Last archived version of the website
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