The pop singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc has announced a new EP where he’s covering a bunch of ’90s alternative songs.Rock My Soul is the first volume of a planned two where he’ll offer up his take on ...

Alternative rock reached its creative peak in the mid-90s. And these classic songs from 1994 still sound great today.

As some of our favorite pop-punk bands continue to show us, we have a lot to thank 1990s alternative music for. Not only did the mainstream explosion set the foundations for the genre collective as we ...

Alternative rock’s heyday was definitely in the 90s. That era has come and gone, sadly. But there are so many songs from that decade that are still quite loved today. And many of those alt-rock tracks ...

The ’90s were chock-full of absolute icons, and no, we’re not referring to the Princess Diana Beanie Baby or JNCO jeans when we say that. From Nirvana to *NSYNC, pop and grunge ruled the airwaves.

‘80s gloom gave way to ‘90s lightness for The Cure, who scored one of their biggest hits with the unusually upbeat “Friday ...

A word that does not often get used in the same breath as “MTV” is “gravitas.” (Unless you are talking about Kurt Loder, in which it always does.) MTV, even before the teen pop boy band boom of the ...

These trailblazers fused unbridled energy with experimental quirks; each band had a sound that was a raucous cocktail of introspective lyrics and a defiant refusal to play by the rules of the ...

Just like every decade before it — and since — the ‘90s sounded completely different from all other musical eras. It was an incredibly raw time in the music industry, with new genres popping up and ...

These days, Art Alexakis sees plenty of palm trees. His Pasadena, Calif. residence is practically surrounded by them. “Not on our property,” he says over the phone. “But to the right of us, across the ...