The alternative music scene is having a great 2024. This year has given us a great array of albums in the genre, including the return of many iconic artists from the past 15 years. With that said, all ...
From London’s Nova Twins to Brooklyn’s Iniko, these Black solo acts and Black-led bands span punk, alternative rock, alt-pop, ...
Violent Soho is basically over and done with in the 2020s, but they were really putting out top-shelf work less than a decade ago. Waco was released in 2016 and has been Violent Soho’s most ...
1994 was a big year for all kinds of alternative music. Industrial had its breakthrough, (pop) punk was having a revival, and the last big grunge albums were released in its dying gasps — which is to ...
Retirement is more and more a thing of the past whether we like it or not. In the case of rock and pop, that sometimes means nostalgia tours that hit state fairs in the summer, but there are a lot of ...
Maui has played a prominent role in the Alternative Album category of the Nā Hōkū Hanohano awards in the last few years in the shape of the Kula-based band Big Chief Thunder. They won in 2023 for ...
Helmet were pioneers of the alternative metal movement in the early 1990s. They had a bit of success upon forming, but they eventually perfected their sound further with the 1992 record Meantime. It’s ...
Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy ...
Tame Impala's "Deadbeat" album makes a splashy start on Billboard's charts, as the set launches at No. 1 on six different rankings ...
What a drag it is getting old, Mick Jagger sang back when he was just 22. But Mick and Keith, and a lot of other veteran artists, have shown this year that “past your prime” is a state of mind and you ...
"Back to Friends" dethrones the singer/songwriter's own six-week leader "Undressed." By Kevin Rutherford Sombr supplants himself at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, rising to ...