We share some music picks for spring, including new releases from the band The Mars Volta and the flamenco duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. We are smack in the middle of spring. And for our friends at NPR's ...

Unless it’s Nirvana, it’s no easy task choosing the best albums from the biggest alternative rock bands of all time. But it’s a challenge we are willing to take. What “alternative” means has certainly ...

Do you remember when a little house at the Jersey Shore rocked the music world? The crew at WHTG-FM (106.3) were on the vanguard of the alternative rock movement of the the '80s and '90s, playing ...

Green Day now has a home on the airwaves of KMXP Mix 96.9, as does Hozier, Oasis, Jimmy Eat World and other alt-rock favorites. That’s because the Phoenix FM radio station has been broadcasting more ...

There’s a lot of debate about the definition of alternative music. It describes music contrasting with mainstream genres in instrumentation, lyrical content, and rejection of major record labels and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cure have been nominated exclusively in Best Alternative Music Album until this year, when they received an additional nod—and ...