How to Use alt-rock in a Sentence

alt-rock

noun

• Legendary alt-rock artist Frank Kozik died at the age of 61.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 2023
• But when you guys were young in the Nineties, a lot of weird alt-rock bands had these fluke hits.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
• British alt-rock band Bôa has lived more than a few lifetimes.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• Slide guitar wasn’t showing up in a ton of mid ’90s alt-rock hits.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2023
• Folds, former frontman of the alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five, is now a solo artist.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2023
• The group hasn’t really dipped into grunge, alt-rock, and punk.
  — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• What’s the vibe?: An ode to old-school hip-hop, with grunge, alt-rock, and punk influences adding extra layers of angst.
  — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• Many who bought the multi million-seller had no idea that the singer had died, and that one of the best-selling alt-rock acts of the year no longer existed.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Many people came of age to that debut, which meshed alt-rock, power-pop and rap for a sound that while sleek always kept a foot on the pavement.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 Feb. 2023
• The current wave of alt-rock bands hail from different cities in Mexico.
  — Marcos Hassan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
• Though Perry’s relationship with Ghost spans nearly a decade, his work with the revered alt-rock band Pavement goes all the way back to 1999.
  — Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• This year, the last surviving Monkee saluted one of alt-rock’s greatest bands with this EP of covers.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2023
• To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Humor was a driving force behind Smash Mouth’s success, and at the forefront was Harwell’s playful alt-rock voice and persona.
  — Maria Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• Humor was a driving force behind Smash Mouth’s success, and at the forefront was Mr. Harwell’s playful alt-rock voice and persona.
  — Claire Moses, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• Jamie Lee Curtis longs to relive her glory days as an accidental member of a teenage alt-rock band.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• With guitars seemingly ripped straight out of 1998 alt-rock radio, this one’s most interesting now as a preview of Swift’s Red sound.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Williams and her alt-rock band are in an otherwise celebratory mood.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 June 2023
• Our focus is alternative – alt-rock, alt-pop, alt-country, and indie rock.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
• The North Carolina band’s blend of alt-country, alt-rock, and shoegaze was exactly what the doctor ordered on an overcast afternoon.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
• Dogstar — the Nineties alt-rock band featuring storied bassist and occasional movie star Keanu Reeves — are officially back with a new song, a new album, and a whole lot of tour dates.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
• Hardcore musician Ian Shelton created the band to channel pop-minded songwriting, but live, their alt-rock songs took on a gruffer edge.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2024
• On Saturday afternoon, that was Birthday Girl, an unsigned Brooklyn alt-rock band that has the elements of downtown cool nailed.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2024
• The tour showcases Swift’s 17-year, 10-album career — encompassing country, pop, folk and alt-rock.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2023
• The tour showcases Swift’s 17-year, 10-album career – encompassing country, pop, folk and alt-rock.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2023
• Dogstar, the Nineties alt-rock band featuring Keanu Reeves on bass, has officially announced its live return following a two-decade-long hiatus.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
• Tim O’Brien’s poetically opaque lyrics fester in a collection of pop-tinged punk tracks that sit on the alt-rock faultline—electric but primed to combust like an overheated loose wire.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 2 Aug. 2024
• Like its predecessor, Guts is filled with bratty pop-punk bangers, hooky alt-rock homages, and introspective piano ballads with room for belting.
  — Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
• Few would have predicted that one of the biggest alt-rock breakthroughs of the last decade would be a mostly instrumental trio from Houston with a name that seems dauntingly difficult to pronounce.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• To support their first full-length release in six years, alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise have announced a fall headlining tour that will bring them to downtown Indianapolis.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024