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Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States and the shoegaze and Britpop subgenres in the ...
Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with "dream pop") [ 11] is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. [ 2][ 12] It emerged in Ireland and the United Kingdom in the late 1980s among neo ...
Alternative musicmay refer to the following types of music: Independent music. Alternative rock. Alternative pop. Alternative R&B. Neo soul, sometimes known as alternative soul. Alternative reggaeton. Alternative hip hop. Alternative dance.
Grunge. American rock band Nirvana (pictured in 1992) is the most commercially successful band of the genre, having sold over 27 million albums in the United States alone. Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of Washington ...
Alternative R&B (also referred to as alt-R&B, indie R&B, and originally known as PBR&B, hipster R&B, emo R&B [5] [6] or R-Neg-B [7]) is a term used by music journalists to describe a stylistic alternative to contemporary R&B that began in the mid 2000s and came to prominence with musical artists such as Frank Ocean, Drake, the Weeknd, SZA, Khalid, Bryson Tiller, PartyNextDoor, Tory Lanez ...
noise rock. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced.
Music genre. A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. [1] Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably. [2]
Alternative metal. Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) [ 4] is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. [ 5][ 6] Alternative metal bands are often characterized by heavily downtuned, mid-paced guitar riffs, a mixture of accessible ...