Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new ...

"City Walls" by Twenty One Pilots reaches No. 1 on a Billboard chart, helping the band tie both Green Day and Cage the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

When you think of 1990s alt-rock music, bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction likely spring to mind. There’s another quintessentially ‘90s band ...

The music world offers a vast menu of styles, including pop, jazz, hip-hop, and classical, but not every sound fits neatly into these categories. While many artists follow familiar patterns, others ...

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 ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras go on a journey of discovery within Latin music. And now we're going to take you into a world of new music with our friends at Alt.Latino, ...