Travel back to 1985 and experience iconic alternative rock songs by The Cure, The Cult, and The Smiths for the first time all ...

Helmet were pioneers of the alternative metal movement in the early 1990s. They had a bit of success upon forming, but they eventually perfected their sound further with the 1992 record Meantime. It’s ...

Teaming with Bob Rock, the producer behind Motley Crue’s Dr Feelgood and Metallica’s Black Album, Veruca Salt wound up with a sound so heavy it obliterated any idea the quartet were mere mimics of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alt-rock also-rans Jimmie’s Chicken Shack of Annapolis, Maryland, started off by making vaguely antisocial funk-metal in the vein of early Incubus, before shifting to the more affable ...

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 ’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 ...

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 ...

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 (KGO) -- The Bay Area's alternative station is back. Live 105 (KITS) returned to the airwaves on Monday after two years off the air. The change for the iconic modern rock station ...