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It's a kind of mash-up of what was and is great about being young ca. anno turn of the millenium, heavely rooted in alternative-rock, manga, anime, kung-fu flicks, romance, and, yes, video-games.
Come Out And Play SVGL 2009
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Scott Ambrose Reilly , the head of X5's U.S. operation, says that the top result when searching on iTunes for "folk" isn't folk music at all: It's an album by an alternative-rock group called Monsters of Folk.
The Internet's $10 Million Mix Tapes Ethan Smith 2011
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I've always been more of an alternative-rock type guy, but I've been thinking that I'm limiting myself.
Heavy Metal marshallpayne1 2010
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There's even an alternative-rock band in Kansas City called "The Brannock Device," a name picked, according to one of the band's founders, guitarist Jeremy Schutte, because the drummer once worked in a shoe store.
Maker of Foot Measurer Tries to Stop Other Shoe From Dropping Timothy Aeppel 2011
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What's considered alternative-rock music has changed in the eight years since Jane's Addiction last released an album of new material.
Breaking Old Habits Jim Fusilli 2011
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He's a committed Cincinnati Bengals fan because of Boomer Esiason "For 22 years I've suffered," he says, he's a certifiable foodie, he loves live music and last September, he walked the four blocks from his riverside apartment in Hoboken to a local bar to hear the Charlatans, an English alternative-rock band.
He Leads Running of the Red Bulls Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Cake's album was released by the alternative-rock band's own Upbeat Records label and distributed by Warner Music Group Corp.'s Independent Label Group.
A No. 1 Album but a Small Slice Ethan Smith 2011
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TUCKER: For a band that started out in the era of Nirvana, the alternative-rock style advanced by Spoon has moved into the mainstream.
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As the frontman for the band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell was at the vanguard of the 1990s alternative-rock boom that launched such seminal groups as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
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Mr. Tollett's company also produces the alternative-rock Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on the same site as Stagecoach.
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