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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 .
An Australian alternative, indie-rock band that formed in 1977, The Go-Betweens’ offered a post-punk sensibility that enveloped The Brisbane Sound in the 70s. The Brisbane Sound moved in two circles, the “loud, grungy guitar bands of Screamfeeder ilk” and the “more introspective, sunny Brisbane sound”.
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 the early 1990s, the success of grunge music, American punk veterans and revivalists, as well as local bands like the Hybernators, the Speed Demons, the Meanies, Frenzal Rhomb, and Screamfeeder led to the formation of punk-influenced bands such as the Living End, Jebediah, Bodyjar, 28 Days, Dreamkillers, Four Zero One Four, Align, Tiltmeter ...
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 .
Australian independent radio station, Triple J has also helped propel a multitude of these bands to garner a worldwide audience, with YouTube videos, articles, and airtime. [70] Australia itself has a large number of music festivals that cater to the psychedelic, as well as other alternative music, scene.
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 ...
Fini Scad were an Australian alternative rock band of the 1990s. They had a minor hit with their single "Coppertone", which reached No. 42 in the 1996 Triple J Hottest 100. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1997, the band were nominated for two awards. [1] They released one album, Wider Screen in 1998, and disbanded later the same year.