Alternative Rock (also known as Alternative music, Alt-rock, or simply Alternative) is a genre of Rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. The “Alternative” definition refers to the genre’s distinction from mainstream or commercial Rock or Pop and is expressed primarily in a distorted guitar sound, subversive and/or transgressive lyrics, and generally a nonchalant, defiant attitude. Common characteristics typically include a blend of often melodic, traditional songwriting with more eccentric sounds drawing from that of punk’s, moodier or quirkier lyricism, and sometimes ample amounts of guitar-based distortion and fuzz… read more…