Once alternative rock became mainstream, record labels signed anyone with a guitar and a band photo shot with a fisheye lens. But in their defense, they got it right over and over again. There were so ...

The pop singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc has announced a new EP where he’s covering a bunch of ’90s alternative songs.Rock My Soul is the first volume of a planned two where he’ll offer up his take on ...

What's the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s? The 1990s were the decade in which alt-rock music truly came into its own. During the '80s, many of alt-rock's heroes were mostly relegated ...

These trailblazers fused unbridled energy with experimental quirks; each band had a sound that was a raucous cocktail of introspective lyrics and a defiant refusal to play by the rules of the ...

Just like every decade before it — and since — the ‘90s sounded completely different from all other musical eras. It was an incredibly raw time in the music industry, with new genres popping up and ...

Plenty of alternative rock songs from the last few decades are a lot of fun to listen to, but not very much fun to try to cover.

Here are five of the most underrated alternative rock singers of the 1990s. The 1990s produced an extraordinary generation of alternative rock vocalists, many of whose voices remain instantly ...