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Alternative Rock Classics

The best music from the dawn of Alternative Rock. Featuring the sounds of '80s and '90s Modern Rock!

Alternative Rock Classics

Classic Alternative rock with a '90s-era focus

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'90s Pop Alternative

Alternative pop songs that became mainstream hits

1980s Alternative

The birth of modern rock

1990s Alternative

The best '90s alternative music essentials! Tune in to the greatest alt-rock bands and the top so...

1991 in Rock

Was 1991 the greatest year in rock history? These tracks make the case!

2000s Alternative

Alternative rock hits in a new century

Alt & Modern Rock: 1995

Driving the mid-90s at their best with the year's best tracks.

Alternative Rock 1993

Nirvana, the Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Counting Crows, and Björk made '93 special

Alternative Rock 1997

'97 big-hitters like "Sex and Candy," "Semi-Charmed Life," and that one that goes "WOO-hoo!"

Alternative Rock 1999

It was the year of Everlast, Lit, Filter, Len, Hole, Moby, Korn, and Fatboy Slim

Beastie Boys Samples

The Beasties sampled lots of tasty tracks, and we're playing tons of 'em

BritRock

Bored with the USA? UK Rock, Pop, Electronic, and Classic underground

Classic Alternative 1985

Before grunge, THIS was Alternative Rock: R.E.M., the Smiths, New Order, and Kate Bush

Classic Alternative 1986

A year for classic albums like XTC's 'Skylarking,' Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead,' Depeche Mode's 'B...

Classic Alternative 1992

Big releases from R.E.M., Alice in Chains, Beasties, Lemonheads, and the "Singles" soundtrack...

Classic Alternative 1994

Celebrating a watershed year in alternative rock

Classic Alternative 2001

Weezer, Gorillaz, Coldplay, and Alien Ant Farm -- the top alternative rock of 2001

Classic Alternative 2002

Top alt tracks of 2002: The Strokes, White Stripes, Chili Peppers, the Hives, 311, and Flaming Li...

Classic Alternative: The Grind

Classic alternative rock's edgier side

Emo

Emotionally-driven hardcore, punk rock, and alternative from emo's '90s golden age to today

Grunge

'90s-based heavy alternative like Nirvana, Soundgarden, STP, Pearl Jam and more. Smells like flan...

Lilith Fair

Featuring the performers from 1997's inaugural Lilith Fair, then & now!

New Wave '80s

Pure Post-Punk and New Wave

New Wave & Modern Rock 1981

"Proto" alternative like Soft Cell, Bauhaus, Elvis Costello, Minor Threat, and early U2 and Duran...

Nu Metal/Post Grunge

Big, loud rock from Shinedown, Godsmack, Disturbed, and Five Finger Death Punch

Pop-punk

Punk rock goes mainstream with Blink-182, Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, and more

Radio-X

'80s-based alternative and new wave that goes beyond the pop and fluff and gets to the stuff we r...

Rock & Alternative 1996

Tracks from career album releases by Beck, Tool, Sublime, Dave Matthews, and Cake

Rock and Alternative: 2003

It's all about White Stripes, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age, Blink-182...

Rock and Alternative: 2004

Big breakouts from the Killers, Modest Mouse, Jet, Interpol, and Death Cab

Rock and Alternative: 2005

Seether, Weezer, Shinedown, and Foo Fighters bring the best, the best, the best of 2005

Rock and Alternative: 2013

With Vampire Weekend, the Neighbourhood, Phoenix, and NIN

The Legacy of Riot Grrrl

Celebrating the underground feminist punk scene of the '90s plus acts inspired by the movement

The Multiverse

From Alternative to Zydeco and ABC to ZZ Top, it's genre-defying, decades-spanning eclecticism.

Trip Hop

Melding electronic, hip hop, and more, with Massive Attack, Portishead, and '90s 'Ninja Tuners'

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