The best alternative rock bands by decade, including The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, R.E.M, Nirvana, Green Day, ...

Remember when alternative rock ruled the world, every month brought another legendary album, and nobody had the audacity to ...

Believe it or not, alternative rock music did not get its start in the dive bars and independent radio stations of the Pacific Northwest. The genre began decades before Nirvana and Pearl Jam reared ...

Innovative rock music from the 1960s that informed alternative rock, including songs from The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and more.

The band headlined the 1992 Reading Festival at a time when Cobain was going in and out of rehab. Cobain decided to take a lighthearted (for him) approach to the performance and was rolled out on ...

There is no logical reason for Chuck Klosterman to have written Rock* – A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music. That is one reason I’m glad he did. Klosterman says as much ...

Most one-hit wonders are massively popular for a year or two before promptly fading into obscurity. The following solitary hits, however, are still absolute jams today. It’s pretty rare to find ...