Drafting and Planning: Research Into My Magazine Genre

For my music magazine I have chosen to do Alternative/rock music. 

Alt-Rock emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became popular in the 1990s and 2000s. The term “Alternative” highlights the sub-genre’s distinction from mainstream rock music. Alternative rock music has stylistic origins from the likes of Punk-Rock, Post-Punk Rock, New wave and Hardcore Punk – meaning it is a hybrid of Punk and Rock music. Alternative rock bands tend to consist of a vocalist, electric guitarist, bass guitarist and a drummer.

The Alternative-Rock genre emerged in the UK in the 1980s with a Manchester band – “The Smiths” – being the most notable of the time.

The alternative-rock genre lost its popularity in the 1990s following the death of Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain in 1994 and Pearl Jam’s lawsuit against concert venue promoter Ticketmaster, which in effect barred the band from performing in most of the major venues around the United States, in addition to the fall in the number of grunge bands and the Hiatus of the popular alternative-rock Lollapalooza festival

However, during the late 1990s early 2000s alternative rock bands emerged including the likes of “The Strokes” and “The Rapture” - which took inspiration from the post-punk and new wave establishing the Pop- Punk revival movement. Preceded by the success of bands like “The Strokes”, an influx of new alternative rock bands emerged on the scene. Owing to the success of these bands, Entertainment Weekly declared in 2004, "After almost a decade of domination by rap-rock and nu-metal bands, mainstream alt-rock is finally good again.”

Well known Alt-Rock Bands:

·        Red Hot Chili Peppers

·        Nirvana

·        Twenty One Pilots (TØP)

·        Green Day

·        Radiohead

·        Foo Fighters

·        R.E.M

·        Linkin Park

·        Blink-182

·        My Chemical Romance (MCR)

·        & many more