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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The 90s Part 7: The Other Genres
Description: One of the great things about the alt-rock revolution of the 1990s was its diversityā¦
The sounds from this part of the rock universe had always been variedā¦thatās because the idea of āalternative musicā was so amorphousā¦if it was (a) non-mainstream and ignored by most radio stations; (b) a little left of centre in terms of aesthetics; and (c) considered weird by the majority, then it qualified as āalternativeā by default, simply because the was no other way to categorize itā¦and humans love to organize things into piles, right?...
Multiple genres thrived in the alt...