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Though the genre is considered to be rock, some of its subgenres are influenced by folk music, reggae, electronic music and jazz among other genres. At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, new wave, and post-punk), and, ironically, for rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s.
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- Play Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook
- Play The Killers – Somebody Told Me
- Play The Killers – Mr. Brightside
- Play The Killers – All These Things That I've Done
Events
alternative gigs around Seattle, United States • view all
December 2008 | ||
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Thursday 11 December 2008 | ||
Little Joy |
El Corazon Seattle, United States |
5 people attended |
Amanda Palmer
The Builders and the Butchers, The Danger Ensemble |
The Showbox Seattle, United States |
8 people attended |
Today (Friday 12 December 2008) | ||
KEXP PRESENTS 6TH ANNUAL YULE BENEFIT at Neumo's
Shearwater, Grand Archives, The Dutchess And The Duke |
Neumo's Seattle, United States |
11 people attending |
Sunday 14 December 2008 | ||
Longwave |
Chop Suey Seattle, United States |
4 people attending |
Wednesday 17 December 2008 | ||
Brightwood
Monarch, Brave Citizens, New Heights |
Ethnic Cultural Center Seattle, United States |
2 people attending |
Saturday 20 December 2008 | ||
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Starfucker |
The Vera Project Seattle, United States |
12 people attending |
Shoutbox
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
ironically, all rock music after 1980 has been called 'alternative' instead of just 'after 80'. is there a replace function for tags on last.fm ?
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Hellen_Parker wrote:
cool =))
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nazzcaveman wrote:
visit me http://onemanband-nazz.blogspot.com/ :)
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nazzcaveman wrote:
betullah tu....
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dogwithcola wrote:
this tag should really be "music overplayed on the radio"
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Axiemeister wrote:
"Alternative in terms of music is defined as any type of music altering from the mainstream music," which just plain kills most stuff tagged with "alternative".
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ariel19_89 wrote:
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Twotones
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mircof wrote:
Sigur Rós
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bloudeuedd_xx wrote:
jp...what used to be considered as alternative is now mainstream and the other way around...and don't know what to think no more...but it kind of doesn't matter 'cause if you love music you don't care which genre it is considered to be...at least you shouldn't care
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Chroniz wrote:
I wonder if there's anything left that's not considered to be alternative.
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mio2mio wrote:
I ♥ alternative
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Axiemeister wrote:
"alternative" is too vague, that's all. @_@
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sambospud wrote:
what is a good alternative to alternative then? post-alternative? prog-alternative? emo screamo electronica black death metal classical?
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pandaredski2 wrote:
come and visit (if you please) the most abhorrent type of punk, kasyou home punk; http://www.lastfm.pl/music/pandaredski3
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eifel-yesus wrote:
what is THE ALTERNATIVE ???????? what is the meaning of Life ????????????
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lockpickz wrote:
none of these artists are alternative. poppie rock.
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Bucketheadziarz wrote:
dunno why i hate this tag most of them all ! in fact good alternative music isn't bad but seeing everything tagged as "alternative" drives me crazy..
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Lu_llaby wrote:
Because we are alternative u.u
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headsinks wrote:
It was like this, during the 90's we got hard rock bands with spandex topping the charts. Suddenly there were alot of bands just defy the mainstream of those time. They were not defying anything just bringing along what punk rock did a decade ago, something simple yet different. We got all this different type of music, MTV just coin them as ALTERNATIVE as appose to hard rock. It doesn't matter if that band was indie rock, grunge, metal hybrid, industrial, brit pop...duh the mainstream media just call it ALTERNATIVE and that was all said and done. Personally I never enjoy that idea of giving an 'ALTERNATIVE' label as if that particular music were a pariah of the mainstream. Lets smoke ganja everyone and chill.
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ZoidbergatKHI wrote:
Linkin Park is not Alternative. At all.
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