Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a kind of rock music that was founded in 1980 and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock is composed of various subgenres that have emerged from the makers independent music since 1980, as grunge, Britpop, gothic rock and indie pop. These styles are uniform in their common debt to the style and / or ethics of punk rock, which laid the foundations for an alternative 1970. [1] This time the rock was used in a general statement of the underground rock music artists of 1980, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave and post-punk).
While some bands like REM and The Cure achieved commercial success and mainstream critical recognition, many rock artists in 1980 were acts of worship that was recorded on independent labels and received college radio exposure, and oral. When the breakthrough Nirvana and the popularity of grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, rock music has become mainstream and many alternative bands became commercially successful.