When Meat Puppets released their second album in 1984, few would have predicted just how transformative it would be.

Helmet were pioneers of the alternative metal movement in the early 1990s. They had a bit of success upon forming, but they eventually perfected their sound further with the 1992 record Meantime. It’s ...

What's the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s? The 1990s were the decade in which alt-rock music truly came into its own. During the '80s, many of alt-rock's heroes were mostly relegated ...

Chicago’s Alternative Rock station 101 WKQX-FM has launched a companion podcast and Sunday music feature, both called The History of Alternative. The new podcast and weekend feature follows on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Cage the Elephant’s “Metaverse” hits No. 1 on the Alternative ...

I know I sound like your grouchy, out-of-touch dad when I say this, but I swear that music just isn’t that good these days. That’s not to say that today’s music is bad, but that it’s just nothing ...

The ’90s are long gone, and alternative rock — and every other form of rock, for that matter — is dead. Take your JNCOs to the DI, put away your Sony CD-Walkman, and back up your floppy disks, because ...

Singer Billie Eilish took home the 2019 trophy for Favorite Artist – Alternative Rock at Sunday's (Nov. 24) 47th Annual American Music Awards. And that was just one of two awards the first-time ...

The term “alternative rock” evokes an interesting image. At first thought, one may picture emo teenagers or long-haired rock stars smashing guitars. Yet the alternative rock genre is a far cry from ...

Oxymorrons arrive in 2020 as a band standing for diversity, merging the worlds of hip-hop and alternative into one. Oxymorrons have somehow created their own unique lane that the music industry has ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area rock fans got some good news Monday morning when longtime alternative-rock favorite Live 105 returned to the airwaves. At exactly 10:53 a.m. Monday, 105.3 KITS starting ...

The staff found out on Friday when they were all pulled into an office and, "like 1010 WINS does, 'gave us the news,'" said 92.3 radio personality Brady. New York City alternative rock station 92.3, ...