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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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* 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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It was found out that Alternative Tentacles was paying Dead Kennedys less per CD than all the other bands, including Biafra himself, and not informing his other bandmates, which was the fraud.

Some new bands, such as London's Alternative TV, Edinburgh's Rezillos, and Leamington's The Shapes, identified with the scene even as they pursued more experimental music.

In 1989, PiL toured with New Order and The Sugarcubes as " The Monsters of Alternative Rock ", an arrangement of disparate alternative bands that predated the Lollapalooza festival by two years.

Calling indie rock part of " Alternative Rock " is not correct since it has little to do with the production values, message, and history of that genre ( in the early 2000s, Alternative Rock acts in their attempt to regain mainstream status competed in the charts against Indie Rock acts actively ), yet a significant number of indie rock bands refuse to align to other mainstream genres that generally fail to describe them at all.

Alternative Tentacles went on to launch some of the most original bands of the alternative / punk scene including releasing records ( which were later released by other labels ) by bands including The Dicks, 7 Seconds, and the Butthole Surfers.

Some of the best known bands that have come through Alternative Tentacles are Dead Kennedys, NoMeansNo, D. O. A.

Alternative rock / metal band Father have had success with their first album inspirita in countries like the UK, and have toured with bands like Korn, Anthrax and Apocalyptica.

The band is credited in major national press as " South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the far broader Alternative scene " and headlined major national festivals throughout South Africa, including the country's largest music festival Woodstock, in addition to Oppikoppi and RAMfest.

It has promoted bands like Amatory, Tracktor Bowling and Slot, and awarded many of them with its Russian Alternative Music Prize.

In the 1990s, Kansas produced some bands that found regional and national success taking the predominant Grunge aesthetic and adding a Rockabilly or Country music twang, a style sometimes grouped into Alternative country.

Rolling Stone labeled Meshuggah as " one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands ", and the Alternative Press named it the " most important band in metal.

Alternative Press hailed The Haunted as one of metal's 25 most important bands.

Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which led to the commercial success of Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis ; followed by a stream of post-Britpop bands like Travis and Feeder, which led the way for the international success of bands including Snow Patrol and Coldplay.

Alternative metal bands are often characterized by heavy guitar riffs, unconventional sounds within other heavy metal genres, unconventional song structures and sometimes experimental approaches to heavy music.

Alternative metal bands emerged from hardcore punk ( Biohazard, Corrosion of Conformity ), noise rock ( Helmet, The Jesus Lizard ), grunge ( Alice in Chains, Soundgarden ), and industrial ( Ministry, Nine Inch Nails ).

Some popular rock bands in Cyprus are Akoustikoi Epivates, Katadotes ( Καταδότες ), Full Volume, Quadraphonic, Johnny & the Liars ( Punk / Alternative rock ), Maenads, Forty Plus, Triple Jam and Krokes ( both are Greek rock bands ), Ophiochus ( Instrumental Funk / Rock ), Isaac's Cello ( Psychedelic / experimental ), and ScarletSnowPrelude ( Post-rock / Ambient ).

One of the most popular Alternative Metal bands in the United States is System of a Down, formed by Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan, all of them of Armenian descent.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Alternative arguments from moral order have proposed that we have an obligation to attain the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue.

While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture.

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.

Biafra claims that guitarist East Bay Ray had long expressed displeasure with Alternative Tentacles and with the amount of money he received from them, thus the original incentive for the discovery of the back payments.

East Bay Ray claims he received a fax from Alternative Tentacles purporting Biafra approved the licensing for the game, which Biafra denies happening.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

Alternative splicing is widely used to generate multiple proteins from a single gene.

Alternative splicing of introns within a gene acts to introduce greater variability of protein sequences translated from a single gene, allowing multiple related proteins to be generated from a single gene and a single precursor mRNA transcript.

Alternative continuities in the Marvel multiverse are generally defined in terms of their differences from Earth-616.

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Alternative Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay, The Hall of Ma ' at, by Paul V. Heinrich, May 2002.

Alternative theories about the origin of weathercocks on church steeples are that it was an emblem of the vigilance of the clergy calling the people to prayer, that it was derived from the Goths and is only possibly a Christian symbol, and that it is an emblem of the sun.

The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria, Finland or Canada, and all top marathon skaters, as well as thousands of recreative skaters, travel from the Netherlands to the location where the race is held.

As those nine MEPs did not entitle the Greens to form a parliamentary group on their own, they concluded an alliance with MEPs from Italy, Denmark, and regionalists from Flanders and Ireland to form the GRAEL ( Green Alternative European Link ) group, also known as the Rainbow group.