Alternative and Indie Pop
AltPop.News covers alt-pop, indie pop, dream pop, bedroom pop and the singer-songwriter end of the form. We publish explanatory journalism about how music actually gets made, released and paid for, rather than press-release coverage of what came out this week.
We are interested in how pop gets made and positioned – the visual worlds, the styling rules, the release mechanics – as much as in the songs themselves, because at this end of the form those decisions are the work.
How we work
Articles here are written by Sadie Trelawny, who covers this beat for AltPop.News. Pieces are researched and written rather than aggregated, and where a claim rests on a specific event, statistic or decision we check it against primary reporting before it publishes. We do not run articles built from a single aggregator.
We do not fabricate interviews, quotes or releases. If we have not spoken to someone, we do not imply that we have. Where a piece is analysis rather than reporting, it reads as analysis.
Who publishes this
AltPop.News is part of the MW3.biz music network. MW3.biz connects independent and grassroots artists with music curators and publications, and supports artists self-managing their own careers. Coverage decisions here are editorial and are not determined by whether an artist has used that platform.
If you are an artist looking to promote a release, the platform is at mw3.biz.