# List of alternative rock artists

This is a list of alternative rock artists. Bands are listed alphabetically by the first letter in their name (not including "The"), and individuals are listed by the first name.
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 0–9

* +44
* 3 Doors Down
* 4 Non Blondes
* 8stops7
* 10 Years
* 12 Stones
* 13 Engines
* 54-40
* The 77s
* 311
* The 1975
* 10,000 Maniacs

## A

* A
* A Day to Remember
* A Perfect Circle
* A Rocket to the Moon
* A Silent Film
* Aaroh
* Abandon Kansas
* Abandoned Pools
* The Academy Is...
* Acceptance
* Acroma
* Adam Again
* Adam Gontier
* Adema
* The Afghan Whigs
* AFI
* After Midnight Project
* Against Me!
* Against the Current
* Age of Chance
* Air
* Alanis Morissette
* The Alarm
* Alex Clare
* Alice in Chains
* Alien Ant Farm
* Alkaline Trio
* The All-American Rejects
* All Time Low
* The Almost
* Alpha Rev
* Alt-J
* Alter Bridge
* American Authors
* American Hi-Fi
* American Standards
* Amplifier
* Anathema
* Anberlin
* Andy Biersack
* Angels & Airwaves
* APB
* The Apex Theory
* Arcade Fire
* Arcane Roots
* Architecture in Helsinki
* Arctic Monkeys
* Area 11
* Arkells
* Armor For Sleep
* ArmsBendBack
* Art of Anarchy
* As Tall As Lions
* Ash
* Asian Kung-Fu Generation
* At the Drive-In
* The Ataris
* Athlete
* Atlas Genius
* Atom Smash
* Audioslave
* The Auteurs
* Autolux
* Avril Lavigne
* Awolnation

## B

* B-52s
* Babes in Toyland
* Baby Chaos
* The Backseat Lovers
* Bad Books
* Bad Suns
* Badflower
* Balance and Composure
* Band of Horses
* Barenaked Ladies
* Baryonyx
* Bastille
* Battles
* Bayside
* Be Your Own Pet
* Beady Eye
* Beastie Boys
* Beatsteaks
* Beck
* Beirut
* Belly
* Ben Folds Five
* Ben Kweller
* Beth Orton
* Better Than Ezra
* Beware of Darkness
* Biffy Clyro
* Big Black
* Big Dipper
* Big Wreck
* The Big Pink
* Billy Corgan
* Billy Talent
* Birds of Tokyo
* Björk
* Blackfield
* Black Kids
* Black Light Burns
* Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
* Bleachers
* Blind Melon
* Blind Pilot
* Blindside
* Blink-182
* Bloc Party
* Blonde Redhead
* Blood Red Shoes
* Bloodhound Gang
* Blue October
* Blumfeld
* Blues Traveler
* Blur
* Bôa
* Bob Mould
* Bodyjar
* Bon Iver
* Bowling For Soup
* Boys Like Girls
* Bracket
* Brand New
* Brandon Flowers
* Breaking Benjamin
* The Breeders
* Bring Me the Horizon
* Broder Daniel
* The Brobecks
* The Buck Pets
* Buffalo Tom
* Bully
* Bush
* The Butterfly Effect
* Butthole Surfers

## C

* The Cab
* Cage the Elephant
* Cake
* The Calling
* Camper Van Beethoven
* Candlebox
* Canterbury
* Carbon Leaf
* Cartel
* Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
* Catatonia
* Catherine
* Catherine Wheel
* Cave In
* Cherri Bomb
* Chevelle
* Chris Cornell
* Chumbawamba
* Circa Survive
* Citizen Cope
* Civil Twilight
* The Classic Crime
* Coheed and Cambria
* Cold
* Cold War Kids
* Coldplay
* Collective Soul
* Concrete Blonde
* The Connells
* The Constellations
* Copeland
* Counting Crows
* The Cranberries
* Crash Karma
* Crash Test Dummies
* Creed
* Crossfade
* The Cure
* Curve

## D

* The Dandy Warhols
* Dark New Day
* Das Damen
* Dashboard Confessional
* Dave Matthews Band
* Dave Navarro
* Days Of The New
* Deacon Blue
* Dead by Sunrise
* Dead Letter Circus
* Dead Poetic
* Dead Sara
* Deaf Havana
* Deep Blue Something
* Default
* Deftones
* Demon Hunter
* Depeche Mode
* Dinosaur Jr.
* Dishwalla
* doubleDrive
* Dredg
* Drill
* Duran Duran
* Dutch Uncles

## E

* Eagle-Eye Cherry
* The Early November
* Eddie Vedder
* Editors
* Eels
* Eisley
* Elbow
* Electrasy
* Eleventh Dream Day
* The Elms
* Elvis Costello
* Emery
* Enter Shikari
* Envy on the Coast
* Eraserheads
* Evanescence
* Evans Blue
* Eve 6
* Everclear
* Everything Everything
* The Exies
* The Exit

## F

* Failure
* Faith No More
* The Fall
* Fall Out Boy
* Far-Less
* Fastball
* Fatboy Slim
* Fatherson
* Feeder
* Feist
* Fiction Plane
* Fightstar
* Filter
* Finch
* Finger Eleven
* Fiona Apple
* Fishbone
* Five For Fighting
* The Flaming Lips
* Foo Fighters
* The Format
* Forty Foot Echo
* Fountains of Wayne
* Franz Ferdinand
* The Fray
* Fuel
* Fugazi
* Fun Lovin Criminals
* Funeral For A Friend
* Further Seems Forever

## G

* The Gandharvas
* Garbage
* The Get Up Kids
* Gin Blossoms
* Glasvegas
* Gnarls Barkley
* The God Machine
* Godsmack
* The Golden Palominos
* Gomez
* Goo Goo Dolls
* Good Charlotte
* Gorillaz
* Gotye
* Grant Lee Buffalo
* The Grapes of Wrath
* Grayscale
* Greek Fire
* Green Day
* The Gufs
* Guided by Voices
* Guster

## H

* Half Moon Run
* Halestorm
* HalfNoise
* Happy Mondays
* Hawksley Workman
* Hawthorne Heights
* Headstones
* Hidden In Plain View
* HIM
* The Hives
* Holding Absence
* Hoobastank
* Hootie & The Blowfish
* Hopesfall
* Hot Hot Heat
* Hum
* Hundred Reasons
* Hurt
* Hüsker Dü

## I

* I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
* Idlewild
* I Dont Know How But They Found Me
* Ima Robot
* Imogen Heap
* I Mother Earth
* Incubus
* Injected
* The Innocence Mission
* Institute
* Interpol
* Island of Love
* Ivoryline

## J

* Jack White
* Jack's Mannequin
* Jaguares
* James
* James Iha
* Jane's Addiction
* Jars of Clay
* Jellyfish
* Jerry Cantrell
* The Jesus and Mary Chain
* Jesus Jones
* Jet
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack
* Jimmy Eat World
* Jitters
* John Butler Trio
* Joywave
* The Joy Formidable
* The JudyBats
* Julian Cope
* Juliana Hatfield
* The Juliana Theory
* July Talk
* Jump, Little Children

## K

* K's Choice
* Kaiser Chiefs
* Kaizers Orchestra
* KALEO
* Kane
* Kara's Flowers
* Karnivool
* Kasabian
* Keane
* KennyHoopla
* Kent
* Kevin Devine
* Kill Hannah
* The Killers
* The Kills
* King Charles
* Kings Kaleidoscope
* Kings of Leon
* Kitchens of Distinction
* Klaxons
* KMFDM
* Kodaline
* KONGOS
* The Kooks
* KoЯn
* Kula Shaker
* Kutless

## L

* The La's
* Lacuna Coil
* LANY
* L'Arc-en-Ciel
* The Lemonheads
* Less Than Jake
* Letters to Cleo
* Lifehouse
* Limblifter
* Linkin Park
* Lit
* Live
* Liz Phair
* Local H
* Lord Huron
* Love Battery
* Lovedrug
* Lower Than Atlantis
* Lucero
* Ludo
* Luscious Jackson

## M

* Mad Season
* Madrugada
* mae
* The Maine
* Major Moment
* Mallory Knox
* Manchester Orchestra
* Mando Diao
* Måneskin
* Manic Street Preachers
* Mansun
* Marcy Playground
* Marlene Kuntz
* Marvelous 3
* Mary's Danish
* Matchbox Twenty
* The Matches
* Material Issue
* Matthew Good
* Matthew Sweet
* Maxïmo Park
* Mayday
* The Mayfield Four
* Mazzy Star
* The Mekons
* Melvins
* Mercury Rev
* Metric
* mewithoutYou
* Middle Class Rut
* Millencolin
* Mobile
* Moby
* Modest Mouse
* Moist
* Moke
* Monoral
* Morningwood
* Morphine
* Morrissey
* Mor ve Ötesi
* Moses Mayfield
* Moth
* Mother Love Bone
* Mother Mother
* Motion City Soundtrack
* Mudhoney
* Mumford & Sons
* Muse
* MUTEMATH
* My Chemical Romance
* My Midnight Creeps
* Myles Kennedy

## N

* Nada Surf
* The Naked and Famous
* Natalie Merchant
* The National
* Ned's Atomic Dustbin
* NEEDTOBREATHE
* The Neighbourhood
* Neon Trees
* Neutral Milk Hotel
* Neverending White Lights
* NewDad
* New Empire
* New Found Glory
* New Model Army
* New Order
* New Politics
* New Radicals
* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
* Nickel Creek
* Nickelback
* Nico Vega
* Nine Black Alps
* Nine Days
* Nine Inch Nails
* Nine Lashes
* Nirvana
* No Devotion
* No Doubt
* NOAH
* Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
* Nothing But Thieves

## O

* O.A.R.
* Oasis
* The Ocean Blue
* Oceansize
* The Offspring
* Of Monsters and Men
* Of Montreal
* OK Go
* Oleander
* One OK Rock
* OneRepublic
* Orgy
* Ostava
* Our Lady Peace
* Ozma

## P

* P.O.D.
* Palaye Royale
* Pale Saints
* Palm Ghosts
* Panic! at the Disco
* Papa Roach
* Parabelle
* Paramore
* Passion Pit
* Paul Westerberg
* Paul Weller
* Pavement
* Pearl Jam
* Pete Yorn
* Phantom Planet
* Phoenix
* Phoxjaw
* Pierce the Veil
* The Pillows
* Pixies
* PJ Harvey
* Placebo
* Plain White T's
* Pluto
* Poets of the Fall
* Poor Old Lu
* Pop Will Eat Itself
* Porcupine Tree
* Porno for Pyros
* Portishead
* Portugal. The Man
* The Posies
* Possum Dixon
* The Postal Service
* Poster Children
* Powerman 5000
* The Presidents of the United States of America
* The Pretenders
* The Pretty Reckless
* Primal Scream
* Prime Circle
* Prime STH
* Primitive Radio Gods
* The Primitives
* Primus
* The Prodigy
* Project 86
* The Psychedelic Furs
* Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
* Public Image Ltd.
* Puddle of Mudd
* Pulled Apart By Horses
* Pulp
* Punchline
* Puressence
* PVRIS
* Pylon

## Q

* Queens of the Stone Age
* Quietdrive

## R

* R.E.M.
* Ra
* Ra Ra Riot
* The Raconteurs
* Radiohead
* Radwimps
* Rage Against the Machine
* The Railway Children
* The Rasmus
* The Raveonettes
* RED
* Red Hot Chili Peppers
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
* Redd Kross
* Reef
* The Refreshments
* Regina Spektor
* Relient K
* Remy Zero
* The Rentals
* Renegade Soundwave
* The Replacements
* Republica
* Revis
* Rhythm Corps
* Rocket from the Crypt
* The Rocket Summer
* Royal Bliss
* Royal Blood
* The Rubens

## S

* SafetySuit
* Said the Whale
* Saint Asonia
* Saliva
* Sambomaster
* Saosin
* Saving Abel
* Say Anything
* School of Fish
* The Score
* Scott Stapp
* Scott Weiland
* Screaming Trees
* The Script
* Seaweed
* Sebadoh
* Seether
* Semisonic
* Seven Mary Three
* Sevendust
* The Shamen
* Shawn Mullins
* Shed Seven
* Sheila on 7
* Sherwood
* Shihad
* Shinedown
* The Shins
* Shiny Toy Guns
* Shudder to Think
* Sick Puppies
* Silverchair
* Silverstein
* Silversun Pickups
* Simple Minds
* Simple Plan
* Sinéad O'Connor
* Siouxsie and the Banshees
* Sister Hazel
* Sixpence None the Richer
* Skillet
* Skindred
* Skunk Anansie
* Slaves On Dope
* Sleater-Kinney
* Sleeper Agent
* Sleeping with Sirens
* Sleigh Bells
* Slint
* Sloan
* Slipknot
* Slowdive
* Smash Mouth
* The Smashing Pumpkins
* The Smithereens
* The Smiths
* Snail Mail
* Snow Patrol
* Soccer Mommy
* Social Code
* Something Corporate
* Sonic Youth
* Sons of Elvis
* Sorry About Your Daughter
* Sort Sol
* Soul Asylum
* Soul Coughing
* Soundgarden
* Spacehog
* Spacemen 3
* SPAN
* Sparta
* Spiderbait
* Spin Doctors
* Spirit of the West
* Sponge
* Spoon
* Squeeze
* St. Vincent
* Stabbing Westward
* Staind
* Starflyer 59
* Starsailor
* Starset
* State Radio
* Stereolab
* Stereophonics
* Steve Burns
* Steve Taylor
* Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil
* Stir
* The Stone Roses
* Stone Sour
* Stone Temple Pilots
* Story Of The Year
* The Stranglers
* The Strokes
* The Subways
* Sucioperro
* Suede
* Sugar
* Sugar Ray
* The Sugarcubes
* Sugarcult
* Sullen
* Sullivan
* Sum 41
* The Sundays
* Sunny Day Real Estate
* Sunrise Avenue
* Super Furry Animals
* Supercar
* Superchunk
* Superdrag
* Supergrass
* Superheaven
* The Superjesus
* Surrounded
* Suzanne Vega
* Sweet Water
* Sweethead
* Swervedriver
* Switchfoot
* System of a Down

## T

* Takida
* Taking Back Sunday
* Talk Show
* Talk Talk
* Tame Impala
* Tantric
* Taproot
* The Tea Party
* Team Sleep
* Teenage Fanclub
* Tegan and Sara
* Temple of the Dog
* Terrible Things
* Texas
* that dog.
* The The
* Them Crooked Vultures
* Therapy?
* There for Tomorrow
* They Might Be Giants
* Thin White Rope
* Third Day
* Third Eye Blind
* Thirty Seconds to Mars
* Thom Yorke
* Thornhill
* Thornley
* Thousand Foot Krutch
* Three Days Grace
* Thrice
* Throwing Muses
* Thursday
* Tiger Please
* Toad the Wet Sprocket
* Toadies
* Tokio Hotel
* Tokyo Police Club
* Tomahawk
* Tom Morello
* Tom Waits
* Tonic
* Tonight Alive
* Tool
* Too Much Joy
* Tori Amos
* Tracy Bonham
* The Tragically Hip
* Train
* Transmatic
* Transvision Vamp
* Trapt
* Trashcan Sinatras
* Travis
* The Trews
* Tripping Daisy
* Troy Baker
* TTNG
* TV on the Radio
* Tweaker
* Twenty One Pilots
* Twin Atlantic
* Two Door Cinema Club

## U

* U2
* Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
* Ultra Vivid Scene
* Uncle Tupelo
* Under the Influence of Giants
* Underøath
* Uniklubi
* Unsane
* Unwritten Law
* UPSAHL
* Urge Overkill
* Us Amongst The Rest
* The Used

## V

* The Vaccines
* Vampire Weekend
* The Vaselines
* VAST
* Velvet Revolver
* Vendetta Red
* Verdena
* VERIDIA
* VersaEmerge
* Versus
* Vertical Horizon
* Veruca Salt
* The Verve
* The Verve Pipe
* VHS or Beta
* Vic Chestnutt
* The Vines
* Violent Femmes
* Violent Soho
* Virgos Merlot
* The Voidz
* Volcano Suns
* The Von Bondies
* Vonray

## W

* Wakey Wakey
* Walk Off The Earth
* Walk the Moon
* The Wallflowers
* Wallows
* Walt Mink
* The Wannadies
* Warpaint
* The Watchmen
* Waterparks
* Wavves
* We Are Scientists
* We Are The Ocean
* We the Kings
* The Weakerthans
* Weathers
* The Wedding Present
* Ween
* Weezer
* Whale
* Wheatus
* White Lies
* The White Stripes
* White Town
* Wilco
* Wintersleep
* Wolf Alice
* Wolf Parade
* The Wombats
* The Wonder Stuff
* The Working Title

## X

* X Ambassadors
* The XCERTS

## Y

* Yeah Yeah Yeahs
* Yellowcard
* Yo La Tengo
* You Am I
* You Me at Six
* Young Guns
* Young the Giant
* Yungblud

## Z

* Zoé
* The Zolas
* Zox
* The Zutons
* Zwan