alternative rock
noun
: alternative music that blends elements of conventional rock with influences from other musical styles (such as punk rock, hard rock, hip-hop, or folk)
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The drummer has also worked with hard rock band Guns N’ Roses and alternative rock band A Perfect Circle.
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 May 2025
The original score is by alternative rock band Tindersticks.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 May 2025
Jed Gould was an influential Los Angeles disc jockey, known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and ’90s.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
As the festival returns year after year, and commercial alternative rock sounds ever closer to an echo of actual alternatives, audiences start to mock anything genuinely different.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 May 2025
The original score is by alternative rock band Tindersticks.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 May 2025
Jed Gould was an influential Los Angeles disc jockey, known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and ’90s.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
As the festival returns year after year, and commercial alternative rock sounds ever closer to an echo of actual alternatives, audiences start to mock anything genuinely different.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Alternative rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alternative%20rock. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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