Alternative Indie

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1900s

10,000 Maniacs

12 Stones

3 Doors Down

30 Seconds to Mars

311

4 Non Blondes

A

A Day To Remember

A Flock of Seagulls

A Perfect Circle

A Rocket To The Moon

Abadabad

ABBA

Academy Is, The

Acceptance

Adam and the Ants

AFI

Against Me!

A-ha

Airborne Toxic Event

Alanis Morissette

Alien Ant Farm

All-American Rejects

All Time Low

Allison Iraheta

Allman Brothers Band, The

Aloha

Alpha Rev

Alter Bridge

Alvvays

America

Amplifier

Anberlin

Ani DiFranco

Animal Collective

Animals as Leaders

Apache Relay

Arcade Fire, The

Arctic Monkeys

Ash

At The Drive-In

Ataris

Athlete

Atom Smash

Atoms For Peace

Atreyu

Audio Adrenaline

Augustana

Avial

Avenged Sevenfold

B


B52s

Babes in Toyland

Bad Brains

Bad Company

Bad Religion

Bad Suns

Badly Drawn Boy

Band of Horses

Barenaked Ladies

Beastie Boys

Beck

Bell Biv Devoe

Ben Folds

Berurier Noir

Better Than Ezra

Bi-2

Biffy Clyro

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Birdy Nam Nam

Billy Idol

Billy Talent

Biscuit

Bitch Falcon

Bjork

Black Keys, The

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Veil Brides

Blink-182

Blondie

Bloc Party

Bloodhound Gang, The

Blue October

Blues Traveler

Blur

Bodyjar

Boom Said Thunder

Boris Williams

Bowie, David

Bowling for Soup

Boys Like Girls

Brad

Brand New

Brandon Flowers

Bravery, The

Brave Saint Saturn

Breaking Benjamin

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Bright Eyes

British Sea Power

Broadcast

Broken Bells

Brokencyde

Buckcherry

Built to Spill

Bullet For My Valentine

Bush

Busted

Butthole Surfers

Buxton


C


Cage The Elephant

Cake

Calling, The

Camera Obscura

Candlebox

Cardigans, The

Carolina Liar

Catfish and the Bottlemen

Cheap Trick

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Chevelle

Chumbawamba

Circa Survive

Civil Twilight

Clay

Cobra Starship

Coheed and Cambria

Cold cold Cold

Coldplay

Collective Soul

Corey Smith

Counting Crows

Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Mouth

Cranberries, The

Cranes

Crash Kings

Crash Test Dummies

Crazy Town

Creed

Cure, The

Cute Is What We Aim For

Cyndi Lauper


D


Dashboard Confessional

Daughtry

David Bowie

David Cook

David Gilmour

David Gray

Days Difference

Days of The New

Death Cab For Cutie

Decemberists, The

Delphiravens

Depeche Mode

Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows

Devendra Banhart

Devin Farney

Dinosaur Jr.

Disturbed

Dogs Die In Hot Cars

Dolly

Donnas, The

Doves

Dropkick Murphys

Duran Duran


E


East 17

Editor

Elastica

Elvis Costello

Embrace

Enter Shikari

Evanescence

Evans Blue

Eve 6

Everclear

Everlast

Eve’s Plum

Extreme

Eyehategod


F


Faith No More

Fall Out Boy

Fanfarlo

Fastball

Feeder

Feist

Fiction Plane

Filter
Finger Eleven

Fiona Apple

Firehouse

Fishbone

Fistful of Mercy

Five For Fighting

Flaming Lips

Flogging Molly

Florence + The Machine

Flyleaf

Foo Fighters

Fossils

Four Non Blondes

Fracture

Framing Hanley

Franz Ferdinand

Fratellis, The

Fray, The

Fuel

Fun Lovin’ Criminals

Futureheads, The


G


G. Love & Special Sauce

Garbage

Gavin DeGraw

Gavin Rossdale of BUSH

Get Up Kids, The

Gin Wigmore

Glassjaw

Glenn Tilbrook glenn-tilbrook Glenn Tilbrook

Go-Go’s, The

Godsmack

Goldfinger

Goo Goo Dolls, The

Good Charlotte

Gossip

Gorillaz

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Grandaddy

Green Day

Greg Laswell

Guster

Gwen Stefani

Gym Class Heroes


H

H.I.M.

Happy Mondays

Harvey Danger

Hedley

Hellogoodbye

Hey Monday

Hinder

Hives, The

Hoobastank

Hoosiers, The

House of Pain

Hush Sound, The


I


Iggy Pop

Imagine Dragons

Incubus

Interpol

INXS

Isomers, The


J


Jack’s Mannequi

Jane’s Addiction

Jimmy Eat Worlda

John Mayer

Joy Division

Juice WRLD x Marshmello


K


Kaiser Chiefs

Kale

Kasabian

Kate Bush

Kate Nash

Keane

Killers, The

Kim Mitchell

Kings of Leon

Kino

Kooks, The

Korn

KT Tunstall

Kutless


L


L7

La Roux

Ladytron

Lenny Kravitz

Les Claypool

Les Satellites

Less Than Jake

Lifehouse

Lily Allen

Limbeck

Limp Bizkit

Linkin Park

Lit

Live

Liz Phair

Local H

Lou Reed

Ludwig Von 88

Luscious Jackson

Lush

Lydia

Lykke Li


M


Mae

Mae Shi, The

Magnetic Fields, The

Maine, The

Manchester Orchestra

Manu Chao

Marcy Playground

Mars Volta, The

Massive Attack

Matchbox Twenty

Matt Costa

Maximo Park

MC5

Medicine

Men at Work

Metric

Metro Station

MGMT

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Michael Learns to Rock

Middle Class Rut

Midnight Oil

Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Mika

Ministry

Minus The Bear

Modest Mouse

Moist

Moloko

Monsters of Folk

Morrissey

Motels featuring Martha Davis, The

Motion City Soundtrack

Mott the Hoople

Mudhoney

Muse

Mute Math

My Chemical Romance

My Darkest Days

My Morning Jacket


N


Nada Surf

Natalie Merchant

National, The

Nazz

Needtobreathe

Neon Trees

New Found Glory

New Order

New Politics

Nickelback

Nine Days

Nine Inch Nails

Nirvana

No Doubt

Noir Desir


O


Oasis

Offspring, The

OK Go

Old 97’s

OneRepublic

One eskimO

Our Lady Peace



P


Panic at the Disco

Parachute

Paramore

Pavement

Peace Frog

Pearl Jam

Pennywise

A Perfect Circle

Phantom Planet

Phoenix

Pinback

Pixies, The

Placebo

Plain White T’s

P.O.D. / Payable on Death

Pop Evil

Pop Will Eat Itself

Powderfinger

Presidents of the United States of America, The

Pretenders, The

Primus

Prodigy, The

Puddle of Mudd

Pulp


Q


Queens of the Stone Age


R


R.E.M.

Raconteurs, The

Radiohead

Rancid

Ratatat

Ray LaMontagne

Razorlight

Ready Set, The

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Refused

Relient K

Replacements, The

Rev Theory

Rise Against

Rob Thomas

A Rocket To The Moon

R n Murphy

Rusted Root

Ryan Adams

Ryan Star


S


Santigold

Saosin

Saves the Day

Saving Abel

Scorpions

Screaming Trees

Seal

Second Coming, The

Secondhand Serenade

Seether

Sepultura

Seven Mary Three

Shawn Mullins

Shinedown

Shins, The

Shiny Toy Guns

Sibyl Vane

Sick Puppies

Silverchair

Silversun Pickups

Simple Minds

Simple Plan

Sisters of Mercy, The

Sister Hazel

Skid Row

Skillet

Slipknot

Slightly Stoopid

Slits, The

Smashmouth

Smashing Pumpkins

Smiths, The

Snow Patrol

Social Distortion

Sonic Youth

Soul Asylum

Soundgarden

Specials, The

Splean

Sponge

Spoon

Squeeze

SR-71

Stereophonics

Steven Page

Stroke 9

Stone Temple Pilots

Strokes, The

Sugar Ray

Suicidal Tendencies

Sum 41

Superchick

Switchfoot


T


T Rex

Tallest Man on Earth

Tame Impala

Taking Back Sunday

Tears For Fears

Ten Foot Pole

Tattoos, The

Teenage Fanclub

Temper Trap, The

Ting Tings, The

Toadies, The

Them Crooked Vultures

Theory of a Deadman

They Might Be Giants

Third Eye Blind

Thermals

Thirty Seconds to Mars

This Will Destroy You

Three Days Grace

Thrice

Thriving Ivory

Ting Tings

Tired Pony

Tonic

Tool

Tori Amos

Tragically Hip

Transplants

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trapt

Trews

Troggs

Turbonegro

Ty Segall

TV on the Radio

Twin Atlantic

Twilight Sad

Two Door Cinema Club


U


Ultra Orange and Emanuelle

Ultimate Painting

Uncle Tupelo

Underoath

Unkle

Unwritten Law

Urban Dance Squad

Urban Cone

Umbrellas, The

Ume

Used, The

Union Underground, The

Upbeats, The

Urge Overkill

Urge, The

Used, The


V


Vaccines, The

Valleys

Vampire Weekend

Vamps, The

Vanessa Carlton

Vast

Veils

Velo

Velvet Revolver

Venetian Snares

Venke Knutson

Veronicas, The

Veruca Salt

Verve, The

Vicarious Bliss

Victoria Williams

View, The

Vines, The

Violent Femmes


W


Walk the Moon

Walkmen, The

Walls Group, The

Warpaint

Warlocks, The

War on Drugs

We Are Scientists

Weakerthans, The

Ween

Weezer

We The Kings

Wheatus

White Buffalo, The

White Lies

White Stripes

White Tie Affair

Widespread Panic

Wilco

Wild Flag

Wild Nothing

Wild Roses

Wild Feathers

Wildlife Control

Wild Throne

Wild Ones

Wild Child

Wild Ones

Wild Belle

Wild Cub

Wild Pink

Wild Nothing

Wild Moccasins

Wild Adriatic

Wild Ones

Wild Ones

Wild Light

Wombats, The

Wolf Alice

Wolf Parade, The

Wolfmother

Wombats, The

Wonder Years, The

Woods

Woodkid

World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

Wavves

Wreckers

Wrens

Wye Oak


X


X Ambassadors

X Japan

XTC

XX, The

Xtra Mile Recordings

X Ray Spex

Xcerts, The

Xcursions, The

XERXES

XOXO

X-Factor

X marks the Pedwalk

X-Drive

Xel Ha

Xiu Xiu

Xtrmst

Xecutioners

Xaloc

Xilent

X-Ray Dog

XeoN

Xaranga

Xzibit

X-Perience

Xalifa

X-Treme

Xylos

X-ecutioners

X-Press 2

X-Ray Eyes

X-ecutioners

X-Dream

X-Mix

X-Press

X-Sessio

X-Ray

X-treme

X-NTRo

X-Posure

X-Rays


Y


Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yellowcard

Yellow Ostrich

Yacht

Yello

Yacht Club

Yacht Club DJs

Yachtley Crew

Yacht Money

Yacht Punk

Yacht Rock Revue

Yachtz

Yardbirds, The

Yarn

Yasiin Bey

Yawpers, The

Yelle

Yellowcard

Yellowclaw

Yellow Days

Yellowheads, The

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellowman

Yellow Ostrich

Yo La Tengo

Young Knives

Young the Giant

Yuck

YUNGBLUD


Z


Zebrahead

Zero 7

Zodiac

Zola Jesus

Zolas

Zombies

Zoot Woman

Zwan

ZZ Top




Arctic Monkeys
Emerging in the mid-2000s, Arctic Monkeys gained popularity with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006). Known for their witty lyrics and energetic sound, they consistently evolved across albums like AM (2013), making them one of the most influential bands in alternative rock.

Nirvana
Nirvana, led by Kurt Cobain, brought alternative rock into mainstream culture with their 1991 album Nevermind. Their blend of raw punk energy and melodic elements defined the grunge movement and left a lasting impact on alternative music.

Radiohead
Radiohead revolutionized alternative rock with their experimental sound. Starting with albums like The Bends (1995) and OK Computer (1997), the band mixed rock, electronic, and avant-garde elements, evolving into one of the most critically acclaimed and innovative bands in music history.

The Cure
The Cure, pioneers of the post-punk and gothic rock movements, blended dark, introspective lyrics with atmospheric music. Albums like Disintegration (1989) are considered masterpieces, influencing generations of alternative and indie rock bands.

The Strokes
The Strokes revived the garage rock sound in the early 2000s with their debut album Is This It (2001). Their minimalist, riff-driven music helped spark a wave of post-punk revival bands, making them key figures in modern alternative rock.