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.
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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.
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.
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.
It followed up by launching 6 Music, an alternative-rock station, and the Asian Network.
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.
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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.
The band is Sun Kil Moon and it has remade the songs of alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
Even the so-called alternative bands heavily blur the lines between rock and pop.
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 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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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.
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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There are still classic rock stations like Q104 and WBAB, but no station presenting promising new bands or alternative music.
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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.
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.
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