1960s self-titled rock album The Velvet Underground & Nico is groundbreaking and extremely influential to alternative rock ...

A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music’ (Da Capo, Sept.), journalist Klosterman constructs a ...

A new wave of music documentaries across Netflix, Prime Video, and other platforms is bringing punk, grunge, and alternative rock history to wider audiences. From Penelope Spheeris’s raw punk ...

The term “alternative rock” evokes an interesting image. At first thought, one may picture emo teenagers or long-haired rock stars smashing guitars. Yet the alternative rock genre is a far cry from ...

The Nixons made it big in the 1990s with their hit single “Sister”. This post-grunge hit was their only song to make it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US at no. 48. Honestly, the whole of Foma ...

What were the best alternative rock albums of the 2000s? Here we take a year-by-year look through the decade, paying close attention to the trends and scenes that pushed alternative rock in new ...

Alternative rock’s heyday has more or less passed, but there were so many amazing records that came out between the 1990s and 2010s. With so many excellent pieces of work out there, it only makes ...