* Alternative rock

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* 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.

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Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

Alternative rock encompasses a diverse set of styles — including gothic rock and grunge, among others — unified by their debt to punk rock and their origins outside of the musical mainstream.

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Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins made an acoustic cover of the song that was featured on their 1994 B-side collection Pisces Iscariot.

Alternative rock acts from the 1980s and early 1990s indie scene were the direct ancestors of the Britpop movement.

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Alternative rock bands from the Northeastern United States, including Sonic Youth, Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr., are important influences on the genre.

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* In 2002 punkrock record label Alternative Tentacles, released Apocalypse Always !, a compilation CD featuring many punk rock bands as well as a spoken word track by Howard Zinn.

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Alternative metal band Fear Factory, released several concept albums in the 90s.

In June, the band released their first single, " California Über Alles ", on the independent label Alternative Tentacles.

In the late 1990s, former band members discovered problems with the amount of payments which each band member had received from their record label Alternative Tentacles.

He wrote lyrics for a number of tracks on the IAMX albums " Kiss + Swallow " and " The Alternative " and released the album All These Lines Make Noises in 2005 as singer / songwriter / lyricist with the band transporter.

In 1993, the band were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for Wish.

Members of rock groups Squeeze and Dire Straits lived on the Crossfield Estate in Deptford in the late 1970s, along with Mark Perry, founder of the punk fanzine Sniffin Glue and punk rock band Alternative TV.

* Alternative rock band Catherine Wheel were from Great Yarmouth

Alternative and safer methods of self-harm that do not lead to permanent damage, for example the snapping of a rubber band on the wrist, may also help calm the urge to self-harm.

* The Chevin ( band ) Alternative rock band

The band has received much praise in particular from Alternative Press, which has supported the group since the mid-1990s.

Alternative band Stereolab demonstrated the influence of lounge with releases like Space Age Bachelor Pad Music and the Ultra-Lounge series of lounge music albums.

Rolling Stone Magazine describes the band as " hard as nails and cranked to eleven ", while Alternative Press praised the band for its " churning, riff-driven hybrid of all that is heavy, past and present ".

During an Alternative Press Acoustic Session, members of fellow Boston area ska band Big D and the Kids Table hinted that the Bosstones were in fact reuniting for another Hometown Throwdown.

Liverpool doom metal band Anathema's 1998 album Alternative 4 was also named after the programme.

Psychedelic rock band Monster Magnet have a song about the conspiracy, titled " Third Alternative " on their Dopes to Infinity album.

The song " Alternative Three " on the album Karma Had It Coming by Nova Scotia punk rock band, The Broomhandles takes inspiration from the program.

Additionally, in 1993, the band performed " Sexual Healing " for the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.

In a 2005 interview with Alternative Press, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz stated that the band had a huge influence on him and the other members of Fall Out Boy.

* Alternative rock band R. E. M.

With 1996's ' As Good as Dead ' the band found a moderate commercial success in " Bound for the Floor " which rose to No. 5 on the US Alternative Billboards and No. 10 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Billboards.