Alternative

Alternative in terms of music is defined as any type of music altering from the mainstream music, however there is a distinguishable style of music generally called Alternative rock (also alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the United Kingdom as indie). Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Say Anything

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Jul 10 Friday 10 July 2009
Black Francis	Triple Rock Social… Minneapolis MN, United States 44.966992 -93.246734	4 people attended Add shout
Jet at Paradise Rock Club Jet, Paper Tongues	Paradise Rock Club Boston MA, United States 42.351692 -71.119644	4 people attended Add shout
Fiesta Brava	The Midway Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, United States 42.306278 -71.10765	1 person attended Add shout
Abraham the Poor @ Hookah Zen! at Hookah Zen Lounge Abraham the Poor	Hookah Zen Lounge Las Cruces, NM, United States 32.31222 -106.77778	1 person attended Add shout
Better Than Ezra Tyler Hilton	Bottle & Cork Dewey Beach, DE, United States 38.695425 -75.075073	Add shout
Limp Bizkit	Mandalay Bay Las Vegas (NV), Las Vegas, United States 36.092303 -115.175579	2 shouts

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Pen-Cap-Chew wrote:
yesterday evening

This tag pisses me off

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erikjan22 wrote:
Tuesday evening

I think Alternative and Indie kind of lost their meaning. Since lot's of Alternative bands are in the mainstream these days and lot's of bands aren't indiependent anymore, but are still called Indie. But that's just me :P

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jable wrote:
Sunday evening

@NicolaiHell Well it isn't the genre that enrages me (and it wasn't meant to be taken literally :P), it's the stupidity around it. "Media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication" how can that define a music genre? It fells like I'm having a discussions with a bunch of cheeky three y/o kids that just entered their phase of denial. Indie and alternative are OK to use (imo) as long as they are combined with another genre even though it'd be better if it was just called rock or hip-hop.

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Chazas wrote:
Sunday morning

Well said. It is the same like to tag with "metal" or "rock" - it's inaccurate, because for example alternative metal and alternative rock isn't the same like black metal and rap metal, so tag rightly!

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op2 wrote:
Saturday morning

Why do people tag music with this tag. It means nothing.

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dim2192 wrote:
last week

I hate this tag. Alternative can mean anything

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NicolaiHell wrote:
last week

Radiohead and Gorillaz: Excellent. If you guys like these bands I recommend The Eraser by ThomYork, I specially like the song Black Swan.

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architect88 wrote:
last week

Alternative in terms of music is defined as any type of music altering from the mainstream music... Coldplay, Radiohead, Gorillaz... Is there anything more mainstream than theese?

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NicolaiHell wrote:
last week

Jable, it´s just music buddy. If a thing like a music genre pisses you off you should give yourself a really good check. I don´t like liver, but it doesn´t "piss me off more than anything" , I simply don´t eat it.

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NicolaiHell wrote:
last week

Music doesn´t get any better if you know what genre it belongs to. It´s empty knowledge. There´s simply music I like, and music I don´t like (and it doesnt mean it´s the best there is, it´s just the best for me, whatever the world considers best is not my concern ) . Genre is only useful when you are looking for music that might appeal to you, and even though some bands in some categories might seem unfit I have hundreds of more important things to worry or quarrel about.

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vesmol wrote:
last week

N# 8bit+guitar

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BurningOceans wrote:
last month

Fake genre.

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Slaything wrote:
last month

@nathalie and maramore: what the fuck are you two talking about? you've never even listened to anything alternative

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Lukka_ wrote:
last month

alternative_rocks

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maramore19 wrote:
last month

alternative=good [2]

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nathalie17china wrote:
last month

alternative=good

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CD-nsk wrote:
last month

Unsucsessful suicide was! Cold Death, Novosibirsk, Russia Action: ~100 tablets + litre of vine. Result: vomiting + end of pain. Date: ~20 June.

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
last month

dumbest tag ever. NO QUESTION.

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jable wrote:
last month

Nothing pisses me of more than the alternative and indie genres. Goddamn.

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Vino-G wrote:
last month

Alternative is no longer an alternative. In the same way that Indie no longer means just a label. Fuck all Genre's anyway.

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