there's so many talented artists & bands in this genre idk about.  who are ur favs and anyone u would recommend? 

 

my favs: metallica, zeppelin, paramore, chem romance, prince, blink-182

fefe godson

 

Mazzy Star, cocteau twins, deftones, sigur ros, radiohead, kino, mbv, Jesus and Mary chain, the cure, Portishead, massive attack, the sundays

I'm not familiar with any artist/band's full discography, but these are some of my fav albums:

• U2: Achtung Baby + Zooropa
• Arctic Monkeys: first two albums + AM
• My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
• Hole: Live Through This + Celebrity Skin
• The Cranberries: debut
• Oasis: first two albums
• Siouxsie and the Banshees: Kaleidoscope
• Nirvana: Nevermind
• The xx: debut
• The Beatles: Abbey Road
• The Strokes: Is This It?

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by Virgos Groove

Paramore, Radiohead, The Cure, Deftones, The Flaming Lips.

Radiohead 

PJ Harvey

Nirvana

Hole

Deftones

The Cranberries 

i used to like it more than i do. rolling stones, arctic monkeys, mountain goats are rock bands i still listen to, people like willow, poppy and mitski are more varied alt artists who've done some really good rock albums. in the end i usually end up thinking i'd rather be listening to abba or something tho, i'm kinda basic

The Beaches. All female band, Queens! 

 

 

 

tbh there's no rock artist I'd say that I actually 'stan' but this was my fave from last year

 

 

also, i should say the killers but i'm never quite sure how much they're a rock band or not, they're kinda too rock for pop and too pop for rock but the killers were great back in the 00s

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by makeawish

Spiritualized, Swans, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Rush, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears 

Alt/rock are such arbitrary and diverse genres at this point that it's hard to tell what to actually consider alt/rock 

 

More straightforward alt and/or rock faves:

 

The National

Radiohead

David Bowie

The War on Drugs

Rage Against the Machine

Paramore

 

Faves that kind of blur the alt/rock/pop line:

 

Lana Del Rey

Florence + the Machine

Fiona Apple

St. Vincent

If you're looking for recent releases from that kind of sound, most of my favorites from 2023 included them. Check out:

 

The Revivalists - Pour It Out Into the Night

Cold War Kids - Cold War Kids

Thomas Day - Love Me For Another Day

Circa Waves - Never Going Under

NEEDTOBREATHE - CAVES

Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City

Royel Otis - Sofa Kings

Valley of Wolves - Who's Your Enemy

Weathers - Are We Having Fun?

Del Water Gap - I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet

MisterWives - Nosebleeds

Colony House - The Cannonballers

Evanescence 

Nickelback 

Ozzy Osbourne 

Daughtry 

Alice in Chains 

Stone Temple Pilots 

Red Hot Chili Peppers 

Candlebox 

 

Chelsea Wolfe

Garbage

Flyleaf 

Type O Negative, Evanescence, Deftones, Snake River Conspiracy (new band with old members - Mojave Phone Booth), In This Moment, Refused

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by Saddy

The Donna's 

Liz Phair

Juliana Hatfield 

Throwing Muses

Aimee Mann

Dandy Warhols

Beck

Cardigans

Maria McKee

PJ Harvey

 

Some that lean in to indie:

 

Angel Olsen

Widowspeak

Dum Dum Girls

Honeyblood

Beach House

Jenny Lewis

Soccer Mommy

Grace Cummings

Lissie

Plastiscines

 

 

The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Father John Misty, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Interpol, Hole, Portishead, Cocteau Twins, etc...

Hole 

U2

Green Day

The Flaming Lips

A Day To Remember

Metallica

Dire Straits

The Clash

Duran Duran (rock no?)

Stone Temple Pilots

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Third Eye Blind (first album only)

recently saw Zac Brown and kinda fell in love

 

 

 

Olivia Rodrigo 

 

Rock/alternative is my favorite genre.

 

My faves:

Foo Fighters

Green Day

Weezer

Linkin Park

Shinedown

Nickelback

3 Doors Down

Three Days Grace

Breaking Benjamin

Paramore

Kings of Leon

Imagine Dragons

Coldplay

Metallica

Red Hot Chili Peppers

twenty one pilots

Rise Against

U2

Korn

Disturbed

All of Denis Stoff's projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favourite rock/metal/alt bands 

 

- Drag Me Out

- The Amity Affliction

- Bring Me The Horizon

- Asking Alexandria

- Linkin Park

- Bad Omens

- Motionless in White

- Lacuna Coil

- Story Untold

- Grinspoon

- Parkway Drive

- Garbage

- Sleeping With Sirens

- Architects

- In This Moment

- New Years Day

- A Day to Remember

- Hopes Die Last

- Make Them Suffer

- Hands Like Houses

- Deftones

- While She Sleeps

- Black Veil Brides

- We Came as Romans

- Red Hot Chili Peppers

- Palisades

- Magnolia Park

- Polaris

 

 

Favourite Rock Solo Artists

- Maggie Lindemann

- jxdn

- Huddy

- Machine Gun Kelly

- Diamante 

 

 

 

Everything from Def Leppard, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Mötley Crüe, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Marilyn Manson, Clan of Xymox, Aeroosmith and U2 to bands like blink-182, Green Day, The Amity Affliction, 30 Seconds to Mars, Yellowcard, Issues, Sum 41, Pearl Jam, Bring Me the Horizon, Secrets, We Came as Romans and The Birthday Massacre.

 

I'm into a very healthy and balanced mix of old and new. So much music, so little time to enjoy it all—on top of everything else I love listening to and doing.