Alternative rock (often shortened alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became broadly accepted in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of assorted subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their aggregate debt to the appearance and/or appearance of punk rock, which laid the background for alternative music in the 1970s. At times alternative rock has been acclimated as a across-the-board byword for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, and all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk).
While a few artists like R.E.M. and The Cure accomplished commercial success and mainstream critical recognition, many alternative rock artists during the 1980s were band acts that recorded on independent labels and accustomed their acknowledgment through academy radio airplay and word-of-mouth. ith the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became commercially successful.
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