 Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins - live from Brabanthallen 's-Hertogenbosch, February 18, 2008 Image by claudia.rahanmetan, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0 |
Mainstream Various ArtistsAlternative rock Alternative rock Music genre For the radio format associated with this genre, see Modern rock. For the baseball player, see Nick Altrock. Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X… (Source: Wikipedia)
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