Original sentence: Along with Nirvana, many of the leading alternative rock artists of the early 1990s acknowledged earlier punk rock acts as influences, helping to inspire a resurgence of punk
Edited sentence: Along with Nirvana, many of the leading alternative rock artists of the early 1990s acknowledged earlier punk rock acts (both famous and obscure) as influences, helping to inspire a resurgence of fast, energetic, rock music that was given by the media the, by then, vacant title of 'punk'.It is not an uncommon assertion that these bands are not to be associated with the genre