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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 .
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 ...
Pages in category "Australian indie rock groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 240 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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
Around the same time, bands such as Quruli and Number Girl had begun heavily influencing Japanese alternative rock. Music critic Ian Martin wrote that, along with Supercar, these groups had demonstrated that "Japanese rock bands could take on the British and American alternative bands of the 1990s at their own game ... and in doing so, they had ...
JAB billed themselves as "Synthetic Shock Rock" and were the first Australian punk band to use live synthesisers and tape loop guitar and synthesiser solos. [5] Adelaide in this period was a staid, conservative, and unreceptive city, and consequently the bands were ignored, feared, and could not secure gigs unless they booked venues themselves ...
[2] Charles Miranda, also of The Canberra Times, felt that "It is a lot different to the band's first album, Wish List, having a more live, 'earthy' sound and flavour – from energetic heavy rock to soft vocaled love songs." [10] They were named most popular independent act at the 1993 Australian Music Awards by local version of Rolling Stone ...
The album was successful and went on to win an ARIA award for Best Alternative Release. 2005 in particular sparked many brand new Australian "indie rock" bands such as End of Fashion who won ARIA awards for their debut self-titled album and hit song "Oh Yeah" (as well as performing at the Homebake festival and appearing on talk show Rove Live ...