Alternative rock genres

Lo-fi music (from the term "low fidelity") is lower quality of sound recordings than the usual standard for modern music.

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative/indie rock with post-disco dance music.

Grebo is a word that was used at least in the East Midlands in the seventies to describe someone with an interest in Motorcycles.

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in Seattle.

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres.

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock.

Gothabilly (sometimes hellbilly), is one of several music and cultural subgenres of rockabilly.

Paisley Underground is an early genre of alternative rock, based primarily in Los Angeles, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s.

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a rock music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

Post-punk revival (also described as new wave revival, garage rock revival or new rock revolution) is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originated in the early 1990s in Washington State (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Ethereal wave, also called ethereal darkwave, ethereal goth or simply ethereal, is a subgenre of dark wave music and is variously described as "gothic", "romantic", and "otherworldly".

Sadcore is a subgenre occasionally identified by music journalists to describe examples of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slower tempos.

Christian alternative rock is a form of alternative rock music that is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview.

Baggy was a British dance-orientated rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Time Lord rock (sometimes shortened to Trock) is a genre of geek rock music based on, and about, the Doctor Who television series.

Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative rock developed in the mid-1980s in the UK and US that mixes dissonant noise or feedback, or both, with the melodic instrumentation and production elements more often found in pop music, making it more melodic than noise rock.

Pagan rock is music created by (and in some cases for) adherents of one of the many Neopagan and occult traditions that emerged in the middle to late 20th century.