And finally, a subscription to Creem, the music magazine founded in 1969 and reissued in 2022, would be a great gift for the audiophile who misses reading Lester Bangs.

On a swelteringly hot day in Chandler, Arizona, in July 1991, Jane’s Addiction was set to take the stage on the first date for Lollapalooza, a new traveling alternative music festival that the band’s ...

Music theory is one of those things that musicians either figure out easily or struggle with forever. I’m certainly in the latter category, so using unusual time signatures is more or less out of my ...

Bands like Smashing Pumpkins and The Flaming Lips at one point were featured on Batman soundtracks. Batman Forever turned 30 in June, so we took a look back at when Batman movie soundtracks were a ...

What's the heaviest song by some of your favorite alt-rock and grunge bands? Let's find out! When it comes to alternative rock, the genre’s weight isn’t always measured in down-tuned guitars or double ...

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 ...

Shocking as it may sound, Seattle wasn’t the only city exporting alternative rock in the 90s. And unless you were loaded, you didn’t have enough money back then to keep up with all the records (or CDs ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Alt-indie pop artist Dayglow performs at MSU on April 11, 7 p.m., after gracing such venue stages as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly Festival, Austin City Limits and more. The ...

Platinum-selling 1990s alternative rock band Sponge will headline the 31st annual Art on the Avenue in West Reading on Saturday. Berks County’s premiere art and music festival will take place from 11 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The alternative music community is in mourning after a private jet hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing multiple people ...

Where has The Shark jumped and what will alternative rock fans do now that the station has abruptly switched formats to sports talk? Beginning immediately, all sports programming on WQAM 560 will be ...