https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock
另類搖滾，即Alternative Rock。
另類搖滾之所以叫另類搖滾，因為它本來確實是另類的、沒人聽的。它在70年代是地下的，在80年代是半地下的，在90年代上升為主流，這時已經不是“另類”了，但是由於曆史原因“另類搖滾”一詞保留了下來。所以今天聽到的主流搖滾樂，雖然大家都在聽，仍然叫另類搖滾。
獨立搖滾和另類搖滾的區別：前者強調的是發行廠牌的規模，後者強調的是受眾多少。然而，在90年代涅槃樂隊取得巨大成功，2000年代互聯網上湧現出一批熱門的獨立樂隊之後，無論是獨立搖滾還是另類搖滾，都已成為主流音樂類型了。它仍然叫“另類搖滾”是為了保持和以前叫法的一致。
The name "alternative rock" essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s.[29] Throughout much of its history, alternative rock has been largely defined by its rejection of the commercialism of mainstream culture, although this could be contested ever since some of the major alternative artists have achieved mainstream success or co-opted with the major labels from the 1990s onward (especially since the new millennium and beyond). Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in small clubs, recorded for indie labels, and spread their popularity through word of mouth.[30] As such, there is no set musical style for alternative rock as a whole, although The New York Times in 1989 asserted that the genre is "guitar music first of all, with guitars that blast out power chords, pick out chiming riffs, buzz with fuzztone and squeal in feedback."[31] More often than in other rock-styles since the mainstreaming of rock music during the 1970s, alternative rock lyrics tend to address topics of social concern, such as drug use, depression, suicide, and environmentalism.[30] This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s and early 1990s.[32]
