The ’90s were full of indie and alternative bands that didn’t always get the attention they deserved, but their music has aged like fine wine. From dreamy shoegaze to punchy power pop, there’s a whole ...

When alternative music exploded in the 90s, and you had a ticket to Lollapalooza, you’d see Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, and Butthole Surfers all on the same bill. And ...

​This song is a relevant representation of alt rock since it highlights the essence of this style of music: political ...

Once alternative rock became mainstream, record labels signed anyone with a guitar and a band photo shot with a fisheye lens. But in their defense, they got it right over and over again. There were so ...

These trailblazers fused unbridled energy with experimental quirks; each band had a sound that was a raucous cocktail of introspective lyrics and a defiant refusal to play by the rules of the ...

The pop singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc has announced a new EP where he’s covering a bunch of ’90s alternative songs.Rock My Soul is the first volume of a planned two where he’ll offer up his take on ...

The '90s were a magical time for alternative rock music—especially if you were tuned into college radio. The circuit birthed some of the era’s biggest mainstream acts: Nirvana, Liz Phair, Radiohead, ...

‘80s gloom gave way to ‘90s lightness for The Cure, who scored one of their biggest hits with the unusually upbeat “Friday ...

When you think of '90s music, it's easy to automatically start naming off a lot of bands in the grunge and alternative genre. But Seattle titans like Nirvana and Pearl Jam are just one part of the ...

Released as the fourth single from 1995's The Bends, "Just" deals with the self-loathing, paranoia and depression commonly ...

A word that does not often get used in the same breath as “MTV” is “gravitas.” (Unless you are talking about Kurt Loder, in which it always does.) MTV, even before the teen pop boy band boom of the ...