What were the best alternative rock albums of the 2000s? Here we take a year-by-year look through the decade, paying close attention to the trends and scenes that pushed alternative rock in new ...

The best albums of 1991 – the year grunge, hip-hop, electronic, and alternative crashed in, forever altering rock's landscape ...

When Alice In Chains released “Man In The Box” as a single, grunge hadn’t yet become a culture-shifting force. Nonetheless, if offered a dark alternative to the glitzy bands dominating MTV. “Man In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft returns to No. 1 on ...

Rock didn't dominate the '80s the way it did the '70s, but there were still some great classic rock albums from the decade, ...

What's the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s? The 1990s were the decade in which alt-rock music truly came into its own. During the '80s, many of alt-rock's heroes were mostly relegated ...

There’s a warmth to this alternative rock album, if not some bittersweetness, considering it is Jeff Buckley’s only studio album. The beloved musician released this album several years before his ...

Perhaps the most experimental thing an experimental artist can do is pivot toward a more established, accessible genre. This is how I think of Spellling’s latest alternative rock album, Portrait of My ...