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Alternative rock and Grunge

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Difference between Alternative rock and Grunge

Alternative rock vs. Grunge

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

Similarities between Alternative rock and Grunge

Alternative rock and Grunge have 94 things in common (in Unionpedia): Alice in Chains, AllMusic, Alternative metal, Ashgate Publishing, Badmotorfinger, Bass guitar, Billboard 200, Blur (band), Britpop, Butthole Surfers, Chorus effect, Collective Soul, Core (Stone Temple Pilots album), Creed (band), Dave Grohl, Dinosaur Jr., Dirt (Alice in Chains album), Disco, Dotdash, Drum kit, Effects unit, Emo, Entertainment Weekly, Foo Fighters, Glam metal, Guitar, Guitar World, Hardcore punk, Hüsker Dü, Heavy metal music, ..., Hip hop music, In Utero (album), Independent record label, Indie rock, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, Liverpool, Lo-fi music, Los Angeles, Matchbox Twenty, Michael Azerrad, Minneapolis, MSNBC, MTV, Mudhoney, Music of Seattle, Nevermind, Nickelback, Nirvana (band), NME, Noise rock, Nu metal, Oasis (band), Our Band Could Be Your Life, Pavement (band), Pearl Jam, Pixies, Pop music, Pop punk, Post-grunge, Post-punk, Progressive rock, Punk rock, Punk subculture, Riot grrrl, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Seattle, Sex Pistols, Simon & Schuster, Simon Reynolds, Singing, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Spin (magazine), Stone Temple Pilots, Sub Pop, Suede (band), Temple of the Dog (album), Ten (Pearl Jam album), The Guardian, The Jesus Lizard, The New York Times, The Replacements (band), The Smashing Pumpkins, The Sydney Morning Herald, Ticketmaster, Timeline of alternative rock, Underground music, Vs. (Pearl Jam album), Washington (state), Weezer, Zine. Expand index (64 more) »

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who then recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative metal

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a rock music fusion genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

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Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).

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Badmotorfinger

Badmotorfinger is the third studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on September 24, 1991, through A&M Records.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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Chorus effect

In music, a chorus effect (sometimes chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches converge and are perceived as one.

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Collective Soul

Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia.

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Core (Stone Temple Pilots album)

Core is the debut studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on September 29, 1992 through Atlantic Records.

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Creed (band)

Creed was an American rock band formed in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film director.

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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, originally simply called Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name.

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Dirt (Alice in Chains album)

Dirt is the second studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 1992, through Columbia Records.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Effects unit

An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source.

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Emo

Emo is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994.

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Glam metal

Glam metal (also known as hair metal and often used synonymously with pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal, which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü were an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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In Utero (album)

In Utero is the third and final studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 21, 1993, by DGC Records.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Krist Novoselic

Krist Anthony Novoselic (Krist Novoselić; often referred to as Chris Novoselic, born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and political activist, and was the bassist and founding member of the grunge band Nirvana alongside electric guitarist and lead singer Kurt Cobain, with Dave Grohl as the drummer.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Matchbox Twenty

Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band, formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995.

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Michael Azerrad

Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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MSNBC

MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Mudhoney

Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band.

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Music of Seattle

Because Seattle is Washington's largest city, the music of Seattle has long played a major role in the music of Washington, in genres of alternative rock that included grunge, and major bands like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.

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Nevermind

Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991.

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Nickelback

Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Nu metal

Nu metal (also known as nü-metal and) is a subgenre of that combines elements of with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial and grunge.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.

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Pavement (band)

Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Pixies

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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Post-grunge

Post-grunge is a derivative of grunge and a style of alternative rock and hard rock that began in the 1990s.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by American rock band Nirvana.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots (often abbreviated as STP) are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitars), and Eric Kretz (drums).

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt.

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Suede (band)

Suede are an English alternative rock band formed in London in 1989.

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Temple of the Dog (album)

Temple of the Dog is the only studio album by the American rock band Temple of the Dog, released on April 16, 1991, through A&M Records.

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Ten (Pearl Jam album)

Ten is the debut studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas and based in Chicago, Illinois.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Replacements (band)

The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in Beverly Hills, California, with operations in many countries around the world.

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Timeline of alternative rock

Alternative rock is generally understood to have begun in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Vs. (Pearl Jam album)

Vs. is the second studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on October 19, 1993 through Epic Records.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Weezer

Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992, consisting of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums), Brian Bell (rhythm guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass, backing vocals).

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Zine

A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via photocopier.

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Alternative rock and Grunge Comparison

Alternative rock has 310 relations, while Grunge has 573. As they have in common 94, the Jaccard index is 10.65% = 94 / (310 + 573).

References

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