Music website / blog founded by Pitchfork Media on July 7th 2010, collecting a team of 14 music blogs dedicated to exploring these emerging musical worlds, traversing genres from psych and drone to electronic and underground pop. Co-edited by Emilie Friedlander (Visitation Rites) and Sahil Varma and Jack Shankly (Transparent).

The blogs that formed Altered Zones were: 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Chocolate Bobka, Delicious Scopitone, Don't Die Wondering, Friendship Bracelet, Get Off The Coast, Gorilla vs. Bear, Raven Sings the Blues, The Road Goes Ever On, Rose Quartz, Transparent (3), Visitation Rites, Weekly Tape Deck and Yours Truly