How to Use alt-rock in a Sentence
alt-rock
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Legendary alt-rock artist Frank Kozik died at the age of 61.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 2023
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British alt-rock band Bôa has lived more than a few lifetimes.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
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Slide guitar wasn’t showing up in a ton of mid ’90s alt-rock hits.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 5 May 2023
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Folds, former frontman of the alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five, is now a solo artist.
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 22 July 2023
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The group hasn’t really dipped into grunge, alt-rock, and punk.
—Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
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What’s the vibe?: An ode to old-school hip-hop, with grunge, alt-rock, and punk influences adding extra layers of angst.
—Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
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Many who bought the multi million-seller had no idea that the singer had died, and that one of the best-selling alt-rock acts of the year no longer existed.
—Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
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Many people came of age to that debut, which meshed alt-rock, power-pop and rap for a sound that while sleek always kept a foot on the pavement.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 Feb. 2023
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The current wave of alt-rock bands hail from different cities in Mexico.
—Marcos Hassan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
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Though Perry’s relationship with Ghost spans nearly a decade, his work with the revered alt-rock band Pavement goes all the way back to 1999.
—Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
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This year, the last surviving Monkee saluted one of alt-rock’s greatest bands with this EP of covers.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2023
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To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
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Humor was a driving force behind Smash Mouth’s success, and at the forefront was Harwell’s playful alt-rock voice and persona.
—Maria Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
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Humor was a driving force behind Smash Mouth’s success, and at the forefront was Mr. Harwell’s playful alt-rock voice and persona.
—Claire Moses, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
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Jamie Lee Curtis longs to relive her glory days as an accidental member of a teenage alt-rock band.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2023
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With guitars seemingly ripped straight out of 1998 alt-rock radio, this one’s most interesting now as a preview of Swift’s Red sound.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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Williams and her alt-rock band are in an otherwise celebratory mood.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 June 2023
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Our focus is alternative – alt-rock, alt-pop, alt-country, and indie rock.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
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The North Carolina band’s blend of alt-country, alt-rock, and shoegaze was exactly what the doctor ordered on an overcast afternoon.
—Daniel Kohn, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
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Dogstar — the Nineties alt-rock band featuring storied bassist and occasional movie star Keanu Reeves — are officially back with a new song, a new album, and a whole lot of tour dates.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
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On Saturday afternoon, that was Birthday Girl, an unsigned Brooklyn alt-rock band that has the elements of downtown cool nailed.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2024
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The tour showcases Swift’s 17-year, 10-album career — encompassing country, pop, folk and alt-rock.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2023
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The tour showcases Swift’s 17-year, 10-album career – encompassing country, pop, folk and alt-rock.
—Indianapolis Star, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2023
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Dogstar, the Nineties alt-rock band featuring Keanu Reeves on bass, has officially announced its live return following a two-decade-long hiatus.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
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Like its predecessor, Guts is filled with bratty pop-punk bangers, hooky alt-rock homages, and introspective piano ballads with room for belting.
—Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
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Few would have predicted that one of the biggest alt-rock breakthroughs of the last decade would be a mostly instrumental trio from Houston with a name that seems dauntingly difficult to pronounce.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
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To support their first full-length release in six years, alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise have announced a fall headlining tour that will bring them to downtown Indianapolis.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
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And Teitelbaum, known professionally as the alt-rock musician Blondshell, is done with those messages now.
—Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
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Sonic Life largely reads like a post-punk coming-of-age story, tracing its protagonist’s journey from scrawny Connecticut fringe kid to New York alt-rock titan.
—Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
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That chatter was swiftly quelled by people calling out sexist hypocrisy, as both songs employ ’90s alt-rock influences but only one was labeled as sellout behavior.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
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