Alternative rock

Music junkies, concert connoisseurs, and vinyl vigilantes everywhere need to know about the similarities and differences between the alternative rock and indie rock genres. The genres alternative and indie are terms sometimes used interchangeably, but their origins are indeed differing. There has been a varying progression of media platforms used to listen to these genres among the past few decades due to society’s social and economic changes. In terms of instrumental progressions and technological

Research Paper: The Evolution of Alternative Rock a. Introduction/Overview A phrase coined by many emerging bands in the early 1980’s, ‘alternative rock’ has become an increasingly more popular term used to describe artists that try to be innately different, yet veer away from the establishment and wish only to play the music they want to play without “selling out”. While it isn’t as concentrated or specific as other genres like hip hop or classical music, alternative music encompasses a wide variety

By this time, grunge and underground rock was huge. People began wearing the ripped jeans and tattered flannels with Doctor Martins and chokers. Cobain was still doing a significant amount of drugs. He was addicted to heroin and often performed and/or interviewed high. In fact, he showed up to his last show (Live at Reading 1992) in a hospital gown and wheelchair as a joke because of the comments he was getting on his drug addiction. This show went down in rock history as one of the most legendary

If the words “alternative” and “rock” are uttered together, chances are, Nirvana immediately comes to mind. Nirvana, lead by Kurt Cobain, intend to push messages that oppose the mainstream through their music and image. Even though, at the height of their popularity they could certainly be considered rock stars, in an interview with MTV in 1993 Kurt famously says “we’re not rock stars”, he truly doesn 't wish to be categorized as one. Nirvana made a conscious effort to be seen in a completely different

Angst & Anguish, key success points of Nirvana and Alice in Chains Abstract In this essay we will focus on major key success points of two bands that took over the world with their music and changed the perception of mainstream music. We're talking about Nirvana and Alice in Chains, two bands that came from same town, year and music genre and yet are completely different in their own respective ways. We're also going to shed a spotlight on both band's frontmens: Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley

Their genre explored alternative rock and grunge which was being strident with the guitar and lethargic vocals. For a band that only produced 3 albums in the span of 7 years their work stood out and were labeled as one of the various significant and affluential bands in rock and roll. The band disbanded in 1994 when Kurt Cobain committed suicide due to instances that involved drug abuse and clinical depression. Even after Cobain’s death the band was admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

Kurt Cobain was considered a rock legend and he changed the face of rock music in the 90s. Kurt Cobain was the leader (vocalist) in the nineties band, Nirvana. Nirvana had over six albums out and all of them were very inspiring to people. Nirvana won one American Music Award in1995 for favorite heavy metal or hard rock art. Nirvana was also nominated for an ECHO award in 1993 during their tour. Nirvana won one Grammy in 1996 for the best alternative music performance and they were also nominated

Kurt Cobain basically made alternative rock into a sub-genre that had its own niche which made Billboard recognize it as what brings independent music together. Kurt Cobain was most known for his social

become know as Grunge, "originally a tounge-in cheek term for the pungent guitar noise propagated by the cultish independent label Sub Pop" ("Grunge"). This mix of 70's metal and early 80's punk blasted into mainstream America and brought the hard rock sound of the 70's back to life, but the sudden, unexpected and to some unwanted, fame and popularity would prove to much for it and like so many pop culture movements before, it would fade away under the pressure("History"). Grunge owes it's start

The 1980s are pretty interesting to look back upon in terms of what happened to the music industry. The decade cradled the beginnings of electronic music and produced the first commercial compact discs (CDs). At the very least all rock bands were expected to house a vocalist who could sing notes into the stratosphere or a virtuosic guitar player who could play at inhuman speeds. Michael Jackson was reborn as the King of Pop, and Madonna would follow him in her own right. There was a lot of dancing