Alt77 is the safe harbour of the underground. Founded by Eduard Banulescu, a music reviewer with over 10 years of experience, the website strives to bypass the noise of the mainstream marketing machine. Instead, Alt77 seeks to critique and to promote artists within alternative music from an insider’s position.
Eduard Banulescu is a dedicated, independent music reviewer. Alt77 features more than 5,000 of his music reviews written over more than 10 years. Eduard also brings his expertise to interviews taken with leading artists in the alternative music sphere (Bob Forrest, Jonathan Richman, Penny Rimbaud), as well as long-form articles celebrating rock music’s influence on pop culture.
Eduard is also a professional musician. As a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Eduard Banulescu plays in goth-rock band Tapetum Lucidum XIX and power-pop group LSD at Disneyland, has been a member of underground punk bands like Anomalii, and has released over 60 solo singles, 2 studio albums and has performed hundreds of concerts.
Banulescu has written a book about the making of Nirvana’s album Nevermind. In 2026, he completed his debut novel, “The Reeperbahn’s Anything You Want It to Be,” which has been shortlisted for several debut novel prizes.
The goal of Alt77.com has always been to report on alternative music, classic or modern, through analysis, reviews, and interviews.
Over time, Alt77 has developed to include a podcast, playlists, opinion pieces, features, etc. All of this work isn’t designed merely to show off, but to assist. Great artists in the underground deserve to be praised for their abilities, not their streaming figures. This is what Alt77 tries to do, while providing a perspective from within this cultural phenomenon.
While it is true that, from a musical standpoint, “alternative” is a blanket term, Alt77.com uses the most widely circulated definition: music that does not necessarily fit within the constraints of modern mainstream music.
Alt77 tends to focus its reporting energies on styles such as punk rock, garage, alternative rock, psychedelic rock, synthwave, indie-folk, metal, ska, jazz-rock fusion, and anything that is just left of the centre of modern commercial music.
We reject the use of AI, generic summaries presented as reviews, and the general pessimism that is now a part of online culture. Art is a vital part of humankind’s development.
Any word posted on Alt77 is written by a human hand, powered by a human brain, and felt by a real soul. That’s the kind of respect music deserves and it often isn’t getting it!
More than anything, Alt77 is on a mission to fill a void.
We know that alternative music is rarely represented in the media. This lack of interest negatively impacts many of the artists we love. In our way, we wish to help create new connections between the art and the fans.
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