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Pages in category "Australian alternative rock groups" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Under the guidance of manager Glenn Wheatley (former bassist in The Masters Apprentices, one of the top Australian bands of the Sixties) LRB became the first Australian band to achieve major ongoing chart and sales success in the United States. They achieved huge success in the late 1970s and early 1980s and their single "Reminiscing" now ranks ...
Through to the 1990s, Australian acts such as The Vines presented a new era of music, a fusion between the psychedelic pop of the 1960s and the more modern rock stylings of 1990s-era bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
A few bands, like Models, crossed over to the mainstream; others, like The Birthday Party went on to achieve critical acclaim abroad. This era can be said to have ended in the 1990s, when in the wake of the explosion of grunge, alternative music became mainstream. Major labels signed three-chord grunge/punk-style rock bands, commercial radio ...
By 1977, other bands began to form in Sydney, under the influence of Radio Birdman and other local and overseas acts. During the late 1970s, former members of Radio Birdman contributed to several new bands. These bands and other Australian and overseas punk acts were supported by public radio stations.
Also since the early 1980s, an assortment of Punk fusion bands speckled the local punk movement, with a mixture of various musical styles that belonged outside punk rock including Country and Western (The Kingswoods and Tex Deadly and the Dum Dums, both early to mid 1980s), [75] Ska (BLoWHaRD, late 1989 to 1990s), [76] Rockabilly (The ...
Buster Brown (Australian band) C. Caligula (band) Cam-Pact; Chaingang (band) Chocolate Starfish; The Chosen Few (1980s Australian band) The Cops (Australian band)
1986–1990: Alternative rock: Dom Mariani, Darryl Mather, Tony Italiano, Robbie Scorer, Martin Moon: The Stems, Lime Spiders, The Orange Humble Band, DM3, Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp: Spacey Jane: 2016–present Indie rock, Garage rock: Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu, Caleb Harper, Kieran Lama, Peppa Lane The Spektors: 1964–1966: Rock