How to Use alternative rock in a Sentence

alternative rock

noun

• At turns energetic and soulful, the songs keep the band’s core alternative rock sound while still feeling fresh.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Mariah Carey is ready for the world to hear her alternative rock album, which was shelved almost 30 years ago.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Some ‘90s rock bands reunite for the paycheck of a festival appearance or an alternative rock package tour.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
• The alternative rock act claims its 11th chart entry and sixth top 40 set with the No.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
• The alternative rock music is still there; so are the DJs.
  — Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• Green Day and Weezer both rose to fame in the mid-’90s when alternative rock took over the airwaves.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2019
• This song is in the punk rock, pop-punk and alternative rock genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• This song is in the pop punk, emo and alternative rock genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Machine Gun Kelly won alternative rock artist of the year for the first time.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• That makes this a huge event for anyone who felt at all connected to the alternative rock scene of the '90s.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2023
• That film sparked a fire with the youth of that day, a youth who grew up on hard, alternative rock, punk and metal, that binged on MTV and zines.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 14 Mar. 2024
• The alternative rock girlies are about to have a night to remember.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• But wait, isn’t Eilish the biggest name in the alternative rock space these days?
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• The album has five tracks of feel-good alternative rock.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2020
• This is listed as an alternative rock, soft rock and pop rock song on Wikipedia.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• This was the era after the initial wave of punk rock but before the explosion of what came to be called alternative rock in the 1990s.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
• The top two albums on this list are both masterpieces that changed the face of alternative rock.
  — cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• This song is in the grunge, alternative rock, hard rock and country rock genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• This is listed as a synth-rock/blues-rock/alternative rock song on Wikipedia.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• In 2011, Rutherford co-founded the alternative rock band The Neighbourhood and serves as the lead singer.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
• But he's done it on the pitch with a soccer ball, not shredding a guitar for an alternative rock band.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2022
• Young singers from the Detroit School of Arts are the stars of a music video from one of the signature figures in alternative rock.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
• That was the case recently when the music legend raved about the Irish alternative rock band Fontaines D.C.
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The booking agent came off even harsher about the state of alternative rock in a 1996 Rolling Stone interview.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022
• To top it all off, Texas-native Anderson is a country singer, and Thomas comes from the world of alternative rock.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• This song is in the indie rock, disco-rock, alternative rock and neo-psychedelia genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• This is listed as an alternative rock song on Wikipedia.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The performance will forever be etched in the minds of Nineties alternative rock fans.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
• Few ‘90s alternative rock bands enjoyed the continuity of creative flow in the ‘00s like The Muffs.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 17 June 2022
• Its sound and industry awareness helped shape alternative rock for the next two decades.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024