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Auburn University – AUMB – Alternative Rock Show

Jun 30, 2010 Rock Bands

The AUMB performs a show featuring music from several famous Alternative Rock bands. Video taken on October 27, 2007 for the Auburn vs. Ole Miss game, at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Songs: “Sweetness” by Jimmy Eat World “Thnks fr th Mmrs” by Fall Out Boy “Holiday” by Green Day “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance

Tags: Alternative, Auburn, AUMB, Rock, Show, University

Cobra – All girl Chinese alternative rock band, CD Cafe 1997

May 3, 2010 Rock Bands

Cobra was an all girls band and one of the early rock bands in China to take the country by storm. Along with Cui Jian, they were one of the first rock bands to tour in the USA in the early 90’s. This is a clip from their show in Beijing at the original CD Cafe, opened up by Liu Yuan of Cui Jian’s band. I regret I don’t know the song name, but it was one of there more popular songs.

Tags: 1997, Alternative, Band, Cafe, Chinese, Cobra, Girl, Rock

The Best of Emo,Rock, and Alternative Bands

May 1, 2010 Rock Bands

songs and bands(in order) reinventing your exit- underoath Sick or sane -senses fail my heroine-silverstein days of the pheonix-afi given up-linkin park welcome home-coheed and cambria 44 caliber love letter, alexisonfire let it die-foo fighters dead!-my chemical romance say this sooner-the almost prayer of the refugee-rise against pretty handsome awkward-the used THANKS FOR THE 40000+ views!

Tags: Alternative, Bands, Best, EmoRock

Top 30 Alternative Rock Bands (#5-#1)

Apr 19, 2010 Rock Bands

this is my list of the top 30 alternative rock bands. i dont care if you like it or not so dont waste your time commenting on the video saying it sucks or anything like that. thanks for watching! (I also threw in some pics of chris cornell and lp that I took at I took at Projekt Rev this summer!)

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Sonic Youth Tickets – See True Alternative Rock Pioneers

Mar 11, 2010 Classic Rock

Sonic Youth tickets, amazingly, have been available for more than 25 years already. It seems like just yesterday that this innovative band was doing its part in redefining the genre of rock and roll as we know it. The legion of loyal Sonic Youth fans just got some great news, however, in that the band is getting back together and hitting the stage once again to relive their old classics and most likely add some of their new signature innovations to the shows they play. A look at their history will help clarify how they became musical icons.

Early Beginnings

The original members of the band all spent their early lives performing in any of several post-punk bands that were prevalent on the local music scene at the time. Given that many of these bands performed together and in the same venues, they got to know each other, and two of the members, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, dated for a time before the band was formed, and they would eventually marry and have a child.

Moore and Gordon also discovered that they had common musical tastes, and they began to perform together. They eventually recruited the other members and “officially” formed Sonic Youth in 1981. Their first gig was at a 10-day “Noise Festival” in the New York neighborhood of SoHo, and their performance was a resounding success. It wasn’t long before Sonic Youth tickets were difficult to find, as they built a loyal local following that would soon get them noticed by the music industry.

Unique Sound

The band is credited with a new sound that became the foundation for “alternative” rock and roll, and the biggest variable that contributed to this sound was the band’s alternate guitar tunings. A little-known fact is that these guitars were tuned in a non-traditional way because they were extremely cheap, as the band could not afford top-notch equipment.

These tunings led to additional innovations, as their approach to music was never what many would consider “scientific.” The band was independent in their approach, and would often formulate melodies and beats based solely on how they felt at the time they were playing.

Results

This purely artistic approach to music led to a wide following for their live shows, but it also led to a career with success that would be considered more “underground” in nature, as they never had a huge commercial success with their albums. None of their albums ever got any higher than #34 on the US album charts, but their following did continue to grow.

If you want to see a band that’s all about artistic expression and freedom with their sound, Sonic Youth tickets are just what you need.

Tags: Alternative, Pioneers, Rock, Sonic, Tickets, True, Youth

Alternative Classical Guitars, Including Portuguese And Flat Top

Mar 7, 2010 Classic Rock

Although its exact history is a little hazy, and subject to much discussion, it is thought that the traditional Portuguese guitar can be traced back as far as the medieval period, and although you will often find references that suggest that it was based on the traditional English guitar, this is most certainly not the case, in particular for the very good reason that there simply is no such thing! The Portuguese guitar is a traditional twelve string instrument which is most notable for its use in the traditional Portuguese Fado music.

When people suggest that the Portuguese guitar comes from the traditional English guitar, what is really being referred to here is not ancestry of design, but rather the quality of build. It was at the time that the Portuguese guitar was being designed and introduced that England was famous for making guitars, and the reputation of these English guitars was very solid. The Portuguese guitar is therefore a descendent of the period when guitars were being made to a high standard in England. Rather than of English origin, the Portuguese guitar is more likely to have its roots in either the medieval citar, or the lute which came from Arabic traditions.

More than likely it was a combination of both of these types of instrument. The Portuguese is an example of a classic guitar, but is not the only type of classic guitar to be available as an alternative to the traditional ones. Another popular type of classical guitar is the flat top steel string guitar. The main difference is that instead of using nylon to create the strings, they are made from steel. This provides a significantly different timbre to the note, but because it has to be tensed and stretched to a very high degree, it has affected the overall shape of the guitar. Often people think that the shape of a flat top guitar is to enhance sound or create some alternate quality of sound to a normal guitar, but it is largely based purely on ensuring that the guitar is strong enough to withstand the tension of the steel strings, since a normal guitar structure would more than likely simply snap in half during the initial tuning up.

The neck of a steel strung guitar is very much reinforced, and the design gives it a strong look and feel. The body is also usually much larger than a normal classic guitar, and also thought his is to act as an extra brace for the strings, it also adds a greater resonance for the notes. The sound created by steel strings rather than nylon ones is described as being much brighter and crisper, and often people suggested that it creates a much louder sound too.

Flat top guitars or steel strung guitars are most often to be found used in traditional folk music, country, jazz and blues, and the music associated with these genres can be thought to reflect the characteristics of the guitar used. A third alternative to the traditional classic guitar is the archtop guitar, and these again used steel strings rather than nylon, creating the crisp bright sound, but the distinctive feature of an archtop guitar is a f-hole which looks very similar to the design of a violin.

The top and back of the guitar’s body are carved in this distinctive curved fashion, and the shape is derived from a similar style of mandolin created by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The archtop guitar can be made available in either the classic form, or as an electric equivalent, and the sound created by these guitars is quite distinctive and has proven very popular with musicians from both the classical and country traditions, and popular music, with the country musicians using the acoustic version of the archtop, and the popular music musicians using its electric equivalent, which often comes with a tremolo arm, particularly when used in rock music.

Tags: Alternative, Classical, Flat, Guitars, Including, Portuguese

Alternative Rock and Its Beginnings

Mar 6, 2010 Classic Rock

When music isn’t pop, rock, country, folk or classical, what is it? It could actually have many names but most refer to it as “alternative”. So how did this name come about?

There are many theories or ideas about how “alternative” became a term used so commonly today. Some say it stemmed from the DJs and promoters of the 1980s who were playing music beyond the top 40 rock radio formats. With freedom of song selection, new bands began making a presence and becoming more requested. From here, college radio grabbed on to the sound, dubbing the music with terms such as new post-punk, indie, or underground music.  The use of the term “alternative” gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, where festival founder and Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell coined the term “Alternative Nation.”

By the late 1980s, the American alternative scene was dominated by styles ranging from quirky alternative pop (They Might Be Giants and Camper Van Beethoven), to noise rock (Sonic Youth, Big Black) to industrial rock (Ministry, Nine Inch Nails). Simultaneously, grunge bands emerged in Seattle, Washington, which included synthesized heavy metal and punk rock. These bands included Soundgarden and Mudhoney. By the end of the decade, a number of alternative bands began to sign to major labels.

In the UK, alternative rock was making a scene at the same time but often called indie. While a few bands achieved commercial success and some mainstream recognition, most alternative rock artists were considered cult acts that were recorded on independent labels and whom mostly received their exposure through college radio airplay and word-of-mouth.

Alternative bands developed underground followings and toured constantly. This was followed in the early 1990s by an industry that recognized the commercial possibilities in these bands. Major labels actively began seeking out these “alternative” bands and signing them. Nirvana found great success in this time and with the release of the band’s single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” along with the constant airplay of the song’s music video on MTV.

Commercial radio stations saw this success and began allowing heavier alternative bands play time. The New York Times declared in 1993, “Alternative rock doesn’t seem so alternative anymore. Every major label has a handful of guitar-driven bands in shapeless shirts and threadbare jeans, bands with bad posture and good riffs who cultivate the oblique and the evasive, who conceal catchy tunes with noise and hide craftsmanship behind nonchalance.”

By 1992 Soundgarden’s album Badmotorfinger and Alice in Chains’ Dirt, along with the Temple of the Dog album collaboration featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden began selling thousands of albums. Rolling Stone magazine began labeling Seattle ‘the new Liverpool’ and major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle.

With the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in 1994 and Pearl Jam’s lawsuit against concert venue promoter Ticketmaster, which in effect barred the group from playing many major venues around the United States, by the end of the 1990s, alternative rock’s mainstream prominence declined.

This decline shifted again and alternative rock again began gaining popularity with artists such as Creed and Matchbox Twenty becoming some of the most popular rock bands in the United States.

Today “alternative” music is almost mainstream and synonymous with quality music. What does the future hold for alternative bands? It is hard to tell, but from its current history, it appears that there will be a continuation of a market for unique expressions of artistry and sound for time to come.

Tags: Alternative, Beginnings, Rock

Goo Goo Dolls Tickets – Buffalo Alternative Rock Continues To Expand Its Reach

Mar 3, 2010 Classic Rock

Most people would be surprised to learn that Goo Goo Dolls tickets have been on the market and available for more than 20 years. However, this is an alternative rock band with serious staying power, and the biggest reason for this prolonged stardom is the fact that their sound remains fresh, and their innovative approach allows them to stay relevant to their millions of fans and other music lovers around the world. A look at their history should provide some insight as to how they’ve managed this long-term success.

Early Beginnings

The band came together in Buffalo in 1986, and their name was derived from a random magazine advertisement. They played local clubs for a time, and released their first album with a short-lived independent label without much commercial success. The band eventually expanded their horizons, and ultimately got to play a gig in Los Angeles.

It was this performance that got them noticed by a larger record company, and this led to their first big-time album release in 1987. However, their innovative sound was not immediately recognized, and their first album was widely panned by critics. The Goo Goo Dolls temporarily earned the moniker of “Replacements wannabes.”

The band played on, however, and continued to hone their sound. This development led to acceptance on both the college radio scene and with the underground punk world, as their style was much more hard-edged than the classic “alternative” rock of the time. They were also becoming known for their energetic live shows, and Goo Goo Dolls tickets were becoming quite popular on college campuses and in punk rock clubs across the country.

Commercial Success

The band continued to cut albums, and a few singles from their next released hit the charts. However, it wasn’t until 1995 that the band hit the mainstream market with their release of A Boy Named Goo, which went double platinum, and made the band a household name with rock and roll fans around the world. Their next release in 1998, Dizzy Up the Girl, went triple platinum and showed the world that the band had continued to develop their sound from their unique foundation.

Overall, the Goo Goo Dolls are anything but an “album mill,” as their focus always has been on live performances and impromptu jam sessions, which is what the band members credit with their innovative sound. Their experimentation has led to many songs and albums that have experienced a huge amount of success, and even now they continue to hone their style.

If you’ve never used Goo Goo Dolls tickets, you’re missing out on a night of true musical talent at its roots.

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Top 30 Alternative rock bands/songs

Feb 9, 2012 Rock Bands

Some of the best alternative rock bands/songs that I listen to. Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Post-grunge. Songs are from early 90s onwards. Note that I didn’t include grunge bands in this list. Grunge, a sub-genre of alternative rock has a special place in my heart. Then I forgot to include Britpop bands, maybe on my next list. Some of the bands I forgot are Weezer, Radiohead, and Evanescence. Completed making the movie in less than a day. Annotations soon. You Can’t Kill HEAVY METAL. You Can’t Kill ALTERNATIVE ROCK.

Tags: Alternative, bands/songs, Rock