Alternative Rock

Alternative rock (also called alt-rock) is a genre of rock music that refers specifically to the punk/new wave-rooted style that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the early-mid 1990s. The term “alternative” was coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that did not fit into the mainstream genres of the time (misunderstanding the term leads to artists like Muse being incorrectly tagged). Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Primus

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Nov 22 Sunday 22 November 2009
Class of 2009 Tour at Northern Lights Saving Abel, Red, Pop Evil, Taddy Porter	Northern Lights Clifton Park NY, United States 42.868635 -73.822803	1 person attended Add shout
Q101 & The Loop Welcome Cavo w/Surrender Dorothy at House of Blues CAVO, Surrender Dorothy	House of Blues Chicago IL, United States 41.88812 -87.629525	1 person attended Add shout
311 State Radio	Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, CT, United States 41.492517 -72.095924	12 people attended Add shout
(RED)Nights presents All American Rejects & Taking Back Sunday with Anberlin... The All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday	Tabernacle Atlanta GA, United States 33.758698 -84.391449	7 people attended Add shout
Train at House of Blues Train	House of Blues Houston, United States 29.75387 -95.363548	1 person attended Add shout
Switchfoot at Exit/In Switchfoot	Exit/In Nashville TN, United States 36.151367 -86.804564	2 people attended Add shout

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DjaDeL wrote:
yesterday afternoon

yea ~ oO~

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luiscmayorga wrote:
yesterday morning

Super especial, que conciertazo!!!!

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xSamuelOnlinex wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Greetings! We a rock group from Belarus - "Zdrada". We give to your attention our first demo which can be downloaded on http://letitbit.net/download/5387.a53be11096d237d19a178dd64/Zdrada___2_demo.rar.html In advance thanks for listening)

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TaintedxSanity wrote:
9 days ago

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Butterfly+Effect <<<---------- Possibly the most UNDERATED Australian bands on lastfm.

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therahmaniac wrote:
12 days ago

foo fighters u rock!

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mak182 wrote:
15 days ago

radiohead, sempre!

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Silverhawk33 wrote:
17 days ago

Muse FTW! [2] Indeed.

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Serghei2115 wrote:
17 days ago

Слухать можно....

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lala_gosling wrote:
17 days ago

♥ Radiohead ..

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onosaka_etsuko wrote:
last month

to be continue

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ll2k1985 wrote:
last month

alternative to Hair Rock like Bon Jovi etc. This tag referred to punk-based music in the 80s and early 90s read the fucking wiki. Except now yeah everything Rock's tagged with it

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szafi19 wrote:
last month

(...)to everything

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catachresistant wrote:
last month

"Alternative to what?". Good. Obviously.

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ZackKouta wrote:
last month

Muse FTW!

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jsnruf wrote:
last month

Alternative to what? [2] srsly

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nosaxplease wrote:
last month

Alternative to what?

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muradmurad wrote:
last month

ugly

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clb547883089 wrote:
last month

nice!

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dzodla wrote:
last month

can anyone once and for all explain to me what does 'alternative rock' mean? stupidest tag ever. if you don't know how to tag a band and it has electric guitar in it, then you just type 'altrenative rock'. I just can't stand it.

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dxylaloka wrote:
last month

i love the most of the groups, but is not rock alternative, is indie, grunge and post grunge

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