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The Best Alt-Rock Song of Each Year of the 1990s

The 1990s saw alt-rock music explode as a commercially viable format and these songs saw quite a bit of airplay as a result. Continue reading…

Evanescence, The Offspring And Billy Corgan Lead iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2027 Lineup

Alternative rock has always been a wonderfully crowded neighbourhood, and iHeartRadio’s ALTer EGO is bringing several generations of its most recognizable residents together for on...

Three new alternative rock tracks that are sure to get your toes tapping for this week

The Madelines – “Amy”-There’s something about the energy of this track that wins me over right away. It jams along with a solid rhythm, but then the fuzzy guitars enter and make it...

Loser Demon’s "EP3" finds beauty in the noise of alternative rock

Loser Demon’s EP3 has a deliberately rough-around-the-edges sound, mixing alternative rock, garage rock, indie rock, melodic pop rock, lo-fi guitar music and post-punk in a collect...

Three unique tracks bringing an contemporary twist to the indie rock genre

Emily Rose Burnett – “erase me”-This song feels like it lives at the intersection of indie pop and indie folk music. There’s an understated bassline that feels like the connective...

AP A-sides: 10 songs you need to hear

Our favorite new songs, updated weekly.

Three unique new takes on the rock genre, showing the versatility of 2026

Stephen Day – “You Wouldn’t Know”-One of the genre tags on this track is yacht rock and that piqued my interest. “Do they still make that?” I asked myself. They absolutely sure do...

3 Alternative Rock Tracks From the Mid-1990s That Felt Like Grunge’s Final Swan Songs

Meat Puppets (Photo by �� Tim Mosenfelder/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Grunge was fading away in the mid-1990s, and these alternative rock tracks from that era might as wel...

Mixtape Indie-Rock: Going Underground

Die besten Neuentdeckungen in einer Playlist auf Spotify und als Artikel: Die Bandbreite reicht von Indie über Alternative-Rock bis hin zu Post-Punk. Indie-Rock/Alternative: Jensei...

3 Stunning Rock Songs From Unexpectedly Beautiful Vocalists

Rock group Alice in Chains. Left to right Jerry Cantrell, guitar; Layne Staley, vocals, Michael Starr, bass and Sean Kinney in Hollywood for rehearsal July 1991. These surprisingly...

Three outstanding new indie rock tracks, featuring a new single from ANBERLIN!

Anberlin ft. Switchfoot – “Trenches”-If you’re an indie rock fan from a certain age group (mine), Anberlin is one of those bands you listened to a while back. You are probably exci...

Three alt and indie pop tracks to show how many definitions there can be for “pop” music

V!ctoria – “Late to the Party”-This was one of those songs that I clicked play and, not knowing what to expect, was absolutely floored on the spot. I don’t even know how to explain...

Bachratten – Rockmusik LP (La Pochette Surprise Records)

Let’s be real for a second: we all need some good alternative rock music every once in a

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1089: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 1

When was rock’n’roll born? That’s hard to pin down. It’s not like the world woke up one day and, all of a sudden, there was this brand-new genre of music that had emerged

AP A-sides: 10 songs you need to hear

Our favorite new songs, updated weekly.

'90s Alternative Rock Bands With Only One Original Member Left

All of these bands are still playing shows today, with at least one act topping at least 70 tour dates in each of the past four years. Continue reading…

Sky Is Alright – “Summer In Galt”

London-based act Sky Is Alright’s “Summer In Galt” is an excellent alt-rock single with shoegaze textures, warming guitars, and a reflective songwriting approach. The first single...

AP A-sides: 10 songs you need to hear

Our favorite new songs, updated weekly.

AP A-sides: 10 songs you need to hear

Our favorite new songs, updated weekly.

HOTHALF DOZEN 9.1.26

A little rock - actually a lot of rock -and a couple of love songs. We listen to both sides of the border

Three new pop rock tracks to bring some energy to your mid October

Stephen Douglas Wolfe – “We’ll Live”-This is the kind of song that blends genres in such a way that just makes me say, “yes!” I would have said yes to this track as a folk track, a...

3 Rock Songs From 1997 You Heard While Shopping at the Mall With Your Friends

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JUNE 13: Third Eye Blind backstage at Live 105's BFD 1997 at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 13, 1997 in Mountain View California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Gett...

4 Songs by Soft Rock Bands That Sound Like Anything but Soft Rock

Photo by Frank Carroll/NBC via Getty Images There's a lot of gray area in soft rock, which might explain these four songs by soft rock artists that sound nothing like the rock subg...