In 1994, the alternative rock group, the Flaming Lips, entered the pop mainstream after appearing on the T.
The band is Sun Kil Moon and it has remade the songs of alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
Dark and dingy in the true tradition of an alternative rock club, D-22 has become the focal point of the Beijing rock scene.
The alternative rock pioneers are prepping the October 18 release of "The Great Escape Artist, " their first studio album in eight years.
How the band's single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit, " was a phenomenal, seemingly overnight success that ushered so-called alternative rock into the mainstream.
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The Los Angeles-born-and-bred band Fishbone, which delivered a bracing combination of rock, funk, punk, and ska, was one of the brightest lights of late-eighties alternative rock.
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Spin itself has withered somewhat since its heyday in the 1990s, when it was closely identified with the rise of alternative rock, but it still has a circulation of 350, 000.
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Bajofondo is a studio Frankenstein in which electronic dance music is fused with Latin alternative rock, with echoes of Argentina's and Uruguay's local traditions of tango and milonga in undeniably contemporary music.
Though Sonic Youth never achieved mainstream pop-music success, its members are recognized as pioneers of the alternative rock scene a band that helped break ground for groups such as Nirvana and Hole.
The only relatively new artists to successfully cross over from the rock and alternative rock charts to the Hot 100 have been Mumford and Sons and Foster the People, and the ubiquitous genre-buster Adele has gone the other direction.
Six in ten women say that a recommendation from a spouse or partner is a deciding factor when making major purchases, according to a survey, taken among more than 13, 000 listeners of Rock, Alternative, Classic Rock, and Sports radio stations, that was conceived by research and consulting firm Jacobs Media.
It followed up by launching 6 Music, an alternative-rock station, and the Asian Network.
The three resembled a former alternative-rock band the Cinemaniacs overdue for a reunion tour.
On trips through the South, for example, he's created playlists that have included crunk (Southern hip-hop) and Southern alternative-rock bands like Drive-By Truckers.
Songwriter Vic Chesnutt has often been called gifted, but his music a spare, introspective and idiosyncratic brand of alternative folk rock is decidedly non-commercial.
Fiction Family is the name taken by two musicians from other bands Sean Watkins of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, and Jon Foreman of the alternative-rock band Switchfoot.
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Other British successes included Mumford and Sons who topped the rock, alternative and folk album artist categories, as well as scoring the honour in each of the genres for their album Babel.
Even the so-called alternative bands heavily blur the lines between rock and pop.
Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers.
The alternative strapping rocket engines to the rock and using their thrust to alter its orbit would not work either, unless the project began several decades before the impact was due.
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At the same time Yury Boiko, the Ukrainian energy minister, has high hopes that shale gas -- formed deep underground within large shale rock formations -- could also be a major alternative source of power in the decades to come.
In the meantime, though, the authority in charge of the area has organised several short-term events to whet the public's appetite for what's to come, with past events including a weekend of rock concerts in early December 2012 and an inaugural alternative cultural festival later that same month.
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The group kicked off a change in radio programming, as so-called alternative stations have put them and other folk bands into rotation next to hard-rock acts.
There are still classic rock stations like Q104 and WBAB, but no station presenting promising new bands or alternative music.
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington described their prize for best rock band as "quite an honour" while Muse said their win for best alternative act was "a real surprise for us".
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