Alternative rock

Alternative rock  is a type of rock music that started between 1979-1981 and popular by the early 1990s rock is made up of various subgenres that have come out of the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, indie rock, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop.  

These genres are sorted by their collective types of punk, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise--The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". Guitar World. December 1995. 

Examples of alternative rock bands include R.E.M., Nirvana, Radiohead, Oasis, Coldplay, and Imagine Dragons.

Artists
 Default
 Three Days Grace
 Sun Kil Moon
 Creed
 Story of the Year
 Kutless
 Secondhand Serenade
 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
 Deep Blue Something
 Counting Crows
 Sixpence None the Richer
 The Verve Pipe

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