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Recent Examples on the Web The heavy metal, rock, punk, and alternative music festival has a rocking lineup of nearly 100 performers heading to Louisville for the four-day event held Thursday through Sunday at the Highland Festival Grounds, 937 Phillips Lane. — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2022 When lightning struck nearby again on Sunday night, organizers decided to call off the rest of the alternative music festival. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022 The album was up for best alternative music album, but the award eventually went to Vampire Weekend's Father of the Bride. — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022 Other new categories announced include best alternative music performance, best Americana performance and best spoken word poetry album. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2022 The track had begun a four-week reign on the Billboard Hot 100 a week earlier and would go on to win a Grammy Award for best alternative music performance in 1991. — Gary Trust, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2015 While the genres ranged from alternative music to Afrobeats, the common theme was heritage. — Vogue, 18 Apr. 2022 This is a necessary step for the indie-pop duo’s upcoming TV series, High School — based on their 2019 memoir about their teenage years in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, full of raves, alternative music, and not-so-secret girlfriends. — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022 In the 1990s came the peak of the alternative music format thanks to the success of bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022 See More

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“Alternative music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alternative%20music. Accessed 6 Oct. 2022.

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