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Nashville rock radio mainstay 102.9 "The Buzz" FM celebrates the season with two nights of music that cater to two very different "alternative rock" audiences.

R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground.

Girls from the Brookewood School in Kensington perform on Nov. 28 with the band Guster before a sold-out crowd at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City.

R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground.

Speaking of cool, isn't Rusted Root the house band for "Twilight"? Photo courtesy of the artist When the multiracial, coed folk-fusion band Rusted Root formed in Pittsburgh, Penn., in the early '90s, frontman and founder Michael Glabicki probably never considered that, in 2009, the band's name might be the most ironic thing about them.

Jon Foreman , Switchfoot's lead singer and principal songwriter, finds it hard to "write a direct song about nebulous subject matter.

It is definitely chili weather here in Robertson County and between now and Thanksgiving there are going to be plenty of opportunities to eat chili to your heart's content while supporting some great charity and community service organizations.

After four years without new material the popular alternative rock band, Dave Matthews Band, bursts back into the music scene with their studio album "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King." "Big Whiskey" proves to be an enjoyable musical rollercoaster with such amazing tracks as "Funny the Way It Is" and "Shake Me Like a Monkey." With each track ...

DMN Newswire--2009-9-21--Black Francis, founder of the Pixies, has completed tracks at Ocean Way Recording for his forthcoming solo album.

The Waxbills will head west to promote their second album, after a few more gigs in Niagara.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Grand-opening festivities are set for the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music, also known as the "School of Rock." The first ACM in the U.S. will celebrate Wednesday with a free public concert at the United Way Plaza in the Bricktown district in Oklahoma City.

Fastball to make a winning pitch in Stamford By KEITH LORIA Hour correspondent It was 15 years ago that native Texans Joey Shuffield and Miles Zuniga teamed up with Tony Scalzo to form a new band that focused on guitar-friendly alternative rock, and it didn't seem like long before Fastball was on the rock n'roll radar.

Fastball to make a winning pitch in Stamford By KEITH LORIA Hour correspondent It was 15 years ago that native Texans Joey Shuffield and Miles Zuniga teamed up with Tony Scalzo to form a new band that focused on guitar-friendly alternative rock, and it didn't seem like long before Fastball was on the rock n'roll radar.

The upcoming fall music slate, at least in terms of classic, "meat and potatoes" rock, is decidedly grim.

The dust has settled. No more construction vehicles will be coming and going at 802 S. Buckner Blvd in Pleasant Grove.

The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously July 21 to name a Bricktown alley after rockabillya s Wanda Jackson for her lifetime musical achievements.

Fusillade is a five piece alternative rock group from Central Queensland that formed in 2007 with lead guitarist Mark Kelly, Brenden Hartwig on Bass, Geoff Price on drums and Mark Nancarrow on lead vocals, and later joined by rhythm guitarist and vocalist Mike Clemerson in 2008.

Geoff Leiter, left, and Tim Neblung make up the acoustic guitar duo The Double Shots.

Emily Osment, 17, who plays Hannah Montana's buddy Lilly Truscott, is following Miley Cyrus' footsteps into the music business.

Early in their career, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were frequently dismissed by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, they refined and mainstreamed their sound enough to become one of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the '90s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with ...