Alternative rock was once unconventional until it became a dominant mainstream force in the 1990s. Many bands mixed classic sounds from the 60s or 70s with the spirit of punk. These opposing ...

In the 1990s, between grunge and Britpop alone, it wasn’t uncommon to see alternative rock bands in the charts alongside major pop stars.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Cage the Elephant’s “Metaverse” hits No. 1 on the Alternative ...

I know I sound like your grouchy, out-of-touch dad when I say this, but I swear that music just isn’t that good these days. That’s not to say that today’s music is bad, but that it’s just nothing ...

Chicago’s Alternative Rock station 101 WKQX-FM has launched a companion podcast and Sunday music feature, both called The History of Alternative. The new podcast and weekend feature follows on the ...

What's the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s? The 1990s were the decade in which alt-rock music truly came into its own. During the '80s, many of alt-rock's heroes were mostly relegated ...

The ’90s are long gone, and alternative rock — and every other form of rock, for that matter — is dead. Take your JNCOs to the DI, put away your Sony CD-Walkman, and back up your floppy disks, because ...

Singer Billie Eilish took home the 2019 trophy for Favorite Artist – Alternative Rock at Sunday's (Nov. 24) 47th Annual American Music Awards. And that was just one of two awards the first-time ...

The term “alternative rock” evokes an interesting image. At first thought, one may picture emo teenagers or long-haired rock stars smashing guitars. Yet the alternative rock genre is a far cry from ...

Oxymorrons arrive in 2020 as a band standing for diversity, merging the worlds of hip-hop and alternative into one. Oxymorrons have somehow created their own unique lane that the music industry has ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area rock fans got some good news Monday morning when longtime alternative-rock favorite Live 105 returned to the airwaves. At exactly 10:53 a.m. Monday, 105.3 KITS starting ...

The Vail Valley music scene just got a little edgier with the formation of a new band called Quadrasonic, which plays a variety of alternative rock, grunge and ’70s punk. “There are a lot of bands ...