The popular musical genre called "alternative rock," immensely popular during the 1980s and 1990s, drew upon the conventions of rock music even while it attempted to distance itself from traditional or "classic" rock....

Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. The term "alternative" was coined in the 1980s to...

While low-slope roofing has experienced a renaissance of exotic materials over the last 30 years, the steep-slope market produced only a handful of alternatives with modest results--until recently. It seems that after gutter guards, the second most popular products at the recent International...

ROYAL Bank of Scotland, Barclays and Citi have offered to securitise half of the Bank of England's emergency loan to Northern Rock, in a move which would cut the public's exposure to the stricken bank. The three banks approached the Treasury in the...

Audio/Visual: Not much has changed in the graphics department. The character models look pretty much the same as the previous two 3-D titles. But hey, it works doesn't it? The music, once again, is huge in San Andreas. There are 11 different radio stations...

When the Smashing Pumpkins reunited after seven years to plan a U.S. concert series, they made a surprising choice for their first shows: a small club in the mountains of North Carolina.The Orange Peel, which has a capacity of 942 people, will host the alternative...

Essay consists of a classification and illustration of different alternative bands.

A brief history of alternative rock music, created in the late 1960s through artists such as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and brought to the forefront in the 1980s and 1990s through artists such as Nirvana. Alternative rock fused their artistic expression with intellectual lyrics that clearly stated their opinions on politics, love, drugs, rebellion, and rock itself.