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alt-rock in British English or alt.rock (ɔːlt) nouna genre of rock music regarded by its practitioners and fans as being outside the mainstream Word origin C20: from alt( ernative) + rockExamples of 'alt-rock' in a sentencealt-rock These days, alt-rock (or indie, or underground) is just another genre.Reformed 1990s alt-rock titans tour together for these double-headers.The album has a dark, atmospheric alt-rock aura, just what you'd expect considering their background.We're dealing with alt-rock here, so household names are moot, but the one he offers surprises me.Written and recorded in his childhood bedroom, it shifts seamlessly between crunching alt-rock riffs and folk musings.Where once it stressed prog-rock pomp and strutting machismo, now it tends to alt-rock introspection and a sly androgyny. |