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unusual facts about Alternative Rock


Select Vacancy

Select Vacancy is the debut Album by the Australian Alternative rock artist Lisa Maxwell, released in 2006 by Essential Music Australia.


A Buddy Story

It stars Gavin Bellour, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and Matisyahu, a popular American reggae and alternative rock musician who makes his screen debut in the movie.

Another Day, Another Riot

Another Day, Another Riot was the fourth album from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Beautiful Disorder

Beautiful Disorder is the second album by alternative rock band Breaking Point, released in 2005.

Blind Melon discography

Blind Melon is an alternative rock band, whose most notable work dates from 1992 to 1995, and ceased with the death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon.

Booth and the Bad Angel

Booth and the Bad Angel was a music project based around the collaborative efforts of Tim Booth (lead singer with the British alternative rock band, James) and the American film composer, Angelo Badalamenti.

Bullet Soul

"Bullet Soul" is the fourth single from the American alternative rock band Switchfoot's seventh studio album Hello Hurricane.

Charm and Arrogance

Charm and Arrogance was the second album from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Cinéma Vérité

Cinéma Vérité is the debut album by the alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985.

Crazy Making Tour

The Crazy Making Tour was a 2009 summer tour which featured the alternative rock bands Switchfoot and Blue October co-headlining.

Dark Horses

"Dark Horses" is a song written and recorded by the alternative rock band Switchfoot, and serves as the first single from their eighth studio album entitled Vice Verses.

Disciplina Kičme discography

The discography of Disciplina Kičme / Disciplin A Kitschme, a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade, formed in 1982, consists of nine studio albums, one live album, two extended plays, two compilation albums, six singles, and a live DVD video release.

División Minúscula

División Minúscula (Spanish for "Minuscule Division") is a Mexican rock band from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and gradually making an impact on the U.S. Latin alternative scene.

Every Day Should Be a Holiday

"Every Day Should Be a Holiday" is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols.

Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All

Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All is a three-song EP released by alternative rock band Fishbone in 2002.

G.a.s. Drummers

A rock album named Standards Down which was also released by Bcore disc in 2005 with a sound that takes them away from their previous sounds further than ever, and making them sound like a mixture between some 90's alternative rock bands such as Dinosaur Jr or even Pearl Jam together with classic rock acts such as Neil Young, The Kinks etc.

Ginger Ale Afternoon

The 1992 album Hit to Death in the Future Head by American alternative rock band The Flaming Lips includes a song called Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday).

I Cut Like a Buffalo

"I Cut Like a Buffalo" is the third track from the album Horehound, by the alternative rock group The Dead Weather in 2009.

I Remember When This All Meant Something...

The last song on this mixtape', "The Last Something That Meant Anything", is the same name as Alternative Rock band Mayday Parade's song: "The Last Something That Meant Anything" off their debut EP Tales Told by Dead Friends.

Jim Reid

Reid is the lead singer and founding member of the alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Jim Reid (born 29 December 1961) is the lead singer for the alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, which he formed with his elder brother and guitarist William Reid.

John the Revelator / Lilian

It was also played by a few alternative rock radio stations in the US, including WKQX (Chicago), throughout 2006, despite not being released as a single there.

Kåre Hedebrant

Hedebrant is member of a band called The Broadcasting Service, who play alternative rock, "stuff like The Hives".

Kidnapping of Colleen Stan

The alternative rock band Blake Babies has a song entitled "Girl In A Box" on their album Sunburn.

Kingdom of Doom

"Kingdom of Doom" is a song by the supposedly unnamed British alternative rock supergroup made up of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and is the fourth track on their 2007 album The Good, the Bad and the Queen (see 2007 in British music).

Mode. Set. Clear.

is the debut album by New Zealand alternative rock band Villainy, released in New Zealand on October 19, 2012 and distributed by Universal Records.

Nathan Cody

While attending CSUS in 2002, he was hired as a commercial producer and radio personality at alternative rock station KWOD 106.5fm in Sacramento.

Reality Serum

'Trans-urban' is a new genre which is a unique blend of Alternative Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock music... fans of Gary Numan, Cake, Tricky, Linkin Park, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Meat Beat Manifesto, Crazy Town, Monster Magnet, etc., will definitely be intrigued.

Rich Eychaner

In 1995, Eychaner signed on KKDM as an alternative rock station and also owned a local movie rental chain.

Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle

"Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle" (also known as "How Do You Afford Your Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle") is the debut single by Sacramento alternative rock band Cake.

Rock TV

Rock TV is an Italian Music TV channel based in Milan, Italy, devoted to Rock, Alternative rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 718 in 2001.

Rule 3: Conceal Your Intentions

Rule 3: Conceal Your Intentions E.P. is the debut EP by English alternative rock band Septembre.

Some Friendly

Some Friendly is the debut album by the British alternative rock band The Charlatans, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music).

Suddenly Mary

"Suddenly Mary" is a song by the American alternative rock band The Posies, released as the second single released from its major label debut album Dear 23 in 1991.

T. Corey Brennan

Terry Corey Brennan (born November 24, 1959) is an associate professor of Classics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, (USA), and was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, most notably the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

Taime Downe

Their next album Whipped!, released in 1992, faced the surging popularity of alternative rock and was less popular.

The Black Album/Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols

The Black Album/Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols is a 2004 double album released by American alternative band, The Dandy Warhols.

The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence is Tiffany's "alternative" album, even down to its cover art reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral.

The Kings

As it were, the group was on the verge of a major revival as the single "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" became a huge radio hit in Chicago getting major play on all of the main rock stations: Classic rock WCKG, Alternative rock WXRT, and Mainstream Rock WLUP, as well as Top 40 powerhouse WLS-AM.

The Ponzi Scheme

The Ponzi Scheme is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Firewater, released on March 31, 1998 through Uptown/Universal.

The Resolution

"The Resolution" is the first single from American alternative rock band Jack's Mannequin's second studio album, The Glass Passenger.

Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses is an alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects.

Trine Rein

Again a popular single was released in 1996, this time her cover of the alternative rock band Ednaswap's song Torn, which later, in 1997 got its worldwide fame with the Natalie Imbruglia cover, with one of the most broadcast music videos of that time on music channel MTV.

Violeta Violeta

Violeta Violeta is a series of studio albums by Norwegian alternative rock group Kaizers Orchestra, comprising their sixth, seventh, and eighth studio albums.

Volbeat

They are inspired by classic rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, as well as modern hard rock, groove metal, alternative rock and hardcore groups.

When Life Hands You Lemons

When Life Hands You Lemons is the debut full-length album by American alternative rock group Piebald, released on Boston, Massachusetts-based independent label Hydra Head Records in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

WQUS

U.S. 103.1's format has a base of Classic Rock/Classic Hits, but the station also plays some alternative rock and other rock songs from the 1990s (such as "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla) and up to recurrent product (such as "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven).

You Were the Last High

"You Were the Last High" is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols.

Zeppet Store

Zeppet Store (stylized as ZEPPET STORE) is a Japanese alternative rock band, who became known after X Japan guitarist hide signed them to his label LEMONed in 1996.


see also

A Cruel World

The record's sound carries on, to some extent, in the direction of Vision of Disorder's last release, From Bliss to Devastation, which blended more commercial alternative rock elements with hardcore sounds.

Alt Nation

For example, Alt Nation was the first alternative-rock station to play Phoenix's "1901" and Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks", both of which went to #1 on the Alternative Rock chart.

Andrew Hurley

Andy Hurley, drummer of the Chicago-based alternative rock band Fall Out Boy

Angeleyes

American alternative rock band The Czars covered the song on their 2006 album Sorry I Made You Cry.

Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart

Kristen Pfaff, musician best known as the bassist for alternative rock band Hole.

C.A.F.B.

With the help of Benedek Fliegauf C.A.F.B. has been booked in the legendary alternative rock club "Black Hole" the first time ever in the summer of 1991 which helped the group move forward and get noticed in the Budapest punk scene.

Chicken shack

Jimmie's Chicken Shack, an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland

Ejector Seat Reservation

Ejector Seat Reservation is the third studio album by the British alternative rock band, Swervedriver.

Electra complex

The debut album of alternative rock band A Perfect Circle, Mer de Noms, includes a song, Orestes which is a clear reference to the Electra myth.

Ellen West

Alternative rock band Throwing Muses recorded a song called "Ellen West" on their 1991 album The Real Ramona.

Emisija Koja Ide na Televiziju Poneđeljkom oko 9 uveče

The show is a work of The Books of Knjige a comedy group and alternative rock band from Cetinje.

Eraserheads: The Reunion Concert 08.30.08

Eraserheads: The Reunion Concert 08.30.08 is a live concert album from the Filipino alternative rock band The Eraserheads; it was released by Sony BMG Music.

First wave

1st Wave, a classic alternative rock radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 22

FNX

WFNX, an alternative rock radio station from Boston, Massachusetts

Frank Kozik

Frank Kozik (born 1962 in Madrid) is an American graphic artist best known for his posters for alternative rock bands.

Freaky

Freaky Styley, an album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Many critics linked the novel to the popularity of grunge and alternative rock, but it makes no reference to grunge, and the song that is widely credited for boosting grunge into mainstream popularity (Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit") was released after the novel's publication.

Geva Alon

Get Closer, Released in November 2009 and produced by the renowned Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Silver Jews, Dinosaur Jr, Jayhawks), features Alon backed by the band Tree with a sound ranging from alternative rock to psychedelic guitars and Americana.

Good Dancers

"Good Dancers" is a 2003 single released from Australian alternative rock duo The Sleepy Jackson, released on 13 October 2003 from the album Lovers.

Hiroshige

The album cover of the alternative rock band Weezer's 1996 album Pinkertons features Kambara Yoru no Yuki ("Night Snow at Kambara"), print number 15 * in Hiroshige's popular 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō series.

Hopesfall

The band followed The Satellite Years with 2004's A Types, which had a more alternative rock sound and was a drastic stylistic departure from The Satellite Years — notably, Forrest's vocals were almost exclusively clean singing.

Household name

Household Names, American alternative rock band based in Austin, Texas

I Wish I Was Someone Better

"I Wish I Was Someone Better" is the sixth single by British alternative rock band Blood Red Shoes.

If You Ever Come Back

"If You Ever Come Back" is a song by Irish alternative rock band The Script from their second studio album, Science & Faith.

JoAnne Lorenzana

Incidentally, also in 2009, JoAnne sang with her American-born first cousin, Craig Abaya, on "When Change Comes" from his alternative rock release "The Fine Art of Politics (ARTifice music)."

KJAQ

On December 19, 2003, at 5:00 PM, after playing "Burning Down the House" by The Talking Heads, KYPT flipped to Classic Alternative Rock as "96-5 K-Rock".

Laclede's Landing, St. Louis

Alternative rock band Wilco references the Landing in "Heavy Metal Drummer", a song off the 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Lilac Wine

The Argentinian alternative rock band Panza has also covered "Lilac Wine" on their 2007 album Pequeños Fracasos (Little Failures).

Live Ammo

Live Ammo is an album by the British alternative rock band Weak13.

Lower Than Atlantis

It took strong alternative rock influences from bands such as Jimmy Eat World and Foo Fighters.

Lumberland, New York

It was also the subject of the song "Darlings of Lumberland" on the 2013 album Nanobots by the alternative rock group They Might Be Giants.

Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", often shortened to "Lying Is the Most Fun...", is a single by the alternative rock band Panic! at the Disco, from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.

Mud Boy and the Neutrons

Mud Boy and the Neutrons is a Memphis rock music band who influenced the Memphis alternative rock scene in the 1970s through the 1990s, inspiring groups like Tav Falco's Panther Burns, North Mississippi Allstars (featuring two of Jim Dickinson's sons), Big Ass Truck, and others from the area.

My Song Is Love Unknown

Singer Joanne Hogg of the Celtic Christian alternative rock group Iona set this hymn to a new tune and released it on her solo album Looking Into Light in 1999.

Neon Hearts

He later played in the alternative rock/industrial rock bands Prong & Ministry.

No.6 Records

Records later became associated with Elektra Records, continuing to release albums and EPs by alternative rock bands including Luna, Vegetarian Meat, Afghan Whigs, Tindersticks, Charles Douglas, Unrest, Jennyanykind, Jule Brown, and Nada Surf.

Perfecto de Castro

During the course of that decade, he was part of the alternative rock band Rivermaya, founded the band Triaxis, and also collaborated with the seminal Filipino rapper Francis Magalona.

Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde

A best-of collection of songs from the history of alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.

Rei Ayanami

In the music video for "Girl's Not Grey" by alternative rock band AFI, an anime-looking girl appears with a strong resemblance to Rei.

Rogers Stevens

Thomas Rogers Stevens (born on 31 October 1970 in West Point, Mississippi, United States) is the guitarist from Blind Melon, an alternative rock band which began in the 1990s and is most famous for their hit song "No Rain".

Sam Clayton

Clayton was introduced to Little Feat, an eclectic band drenched in Southern rhythms, funk, and alternative rock, by his friend Kenny Gradney with whom he had played behind Delaney & Bonnie, and who was to replace original bassist Roy Estrada.

Stormy Waters

"Stormy Waters", first song fully written (in 1998) by Northern Irish drummer Rick McMurray; considered as fan-favourite and "lost gem"; on CD along with "Wildsurf", another song by McMurray's alternative rock band Ash

Tak Giu

Jacen also directed the music video "Silverpiece" for the alternative rock band, Lunarin.

The Great Impression

The Great Impression is the second full-length studio album by Australian alternative rock band Sparkadia.

The Heads Set: The Eraserheads Box Set

The Heads Set: The Eraserheads Box Set is a box set package by the fast food chain Greenwich for the 90's alternative/rock band Eraserheads.

The Live Set - Volume 1

The Live Set - Volume 1 is the second album by the Australian alternative rock band Tlot Tlot.

WCIP

We Come in Pieces, the 2011 live DVD by the alternative rock band Placebo.

WXCI

As one of a handful of stations playing alternative rock in the US in the early 1980s, WXCI helped popularize new bands such as REM, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, U2, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Black Flag.