How to Use alt-rock in a Sentence

alt-rock

noun
  • British alt-rock band Bôa has lived more than a few lifetimes.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But when you guys were young in the Nineties, a lot of weird alt-rock bands had these fluke hits.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • According to the band, a few artists inspired the dreamy alt-rock project.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The alt-rock band will hit the region in May for a run of five arena shows.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The group hasn’t really dipped into grunge, alt-rock, and punk.
    — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Slide guitar wasn’t showing up in a ton of mid ’90s alt-rock hits.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 May 2023
  • The alt-rock band just announced their new album, The Wow!
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The alt-rock and punk band’s music is featured heavily in the film.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Many of sombr’s alt-rock idols ultimately turned away from pop stardom, burned out on the road or both.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The current wave of alt-rock bands hail from different cities in Mexico.
    — Marcos Hassan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Fans still return to its alt-rock soundtrack, the fashion and its spirit of teen angst and rebellion.
    — Drew MacKie, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But while Son of Dad has lots of country fans, its skeleton is firmly indie and alt-rock.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Folds, former frontman of the alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five, is now a solo artist.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 22 July 2023
  • Justin Cary, the bassist for alt-rock band Sixpence None the Richer, has died.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • The band's sound combines elements of alt-rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and funk with traditional punk.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Many people came of age to that debut, which meshed alt-rock, power-pop and rap for a sound that while sleek always kept a foot on the pavement.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But a dollop of ’95 alt-rock sweetness almost overpowers it.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • See the last performance of the summer season, starring alt-rock band White Lighter.
    — Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Two years passed, the alt-rock revolution was on the horizon, and slick pop hitmakers were falling out of fashion.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Many who bought the multi million-seller had no idea that the singer had died, and that one of the best-selling alt-rock acts of the year no longer existed.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The instrumentation stayed true to the alt-rock sound, with distorted guitars and driving drums keeping up the pace.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Jamie Lee Curtis longs to relive her glory days as an accidental member of a teenage alt-rock band.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2023
  • Sugar, the alt-rock band Bob Mould formed after Hüsker Dü’s split, have reunited.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This autumn, though, the feminist alt-rock icons are finally giving us one hell of a sonic supernova.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2026
  • He was also focused on creating his own music as the frontman of the cult alt-rock band Buffalo Tom.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This year, the last surviving Monkee saluted one of alt-rock’s greatest bands with this EP of covers.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2023
  • From an alt-rock icon to the acclaimed Silkroad Ensemble, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The all-woman, alt-rock band from Toronto will be joined by Hello Mary and Brennan Wedl.
    — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Edwards gradually got clean and co-founded the alt-rock band Autolux in 2001.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025
  • Originally known as the Scuds, the group started off playing pretty standard early Nineties alt-rock.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026

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