When Meat Puppets released their second album in 1984, few would have predicted just how transformative it would be.

This 1994 grunge hit from the ever-underrated Toadies has a disturbing backstory that is rooted in modern folklore, of all things. “Possum Kingdom” is based on Possum Kingdom Lake in northern Texas.

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the ...

Twenty One Pilots haven't just been successful with genre charts, as two of their albums have also topped the Billboard 200 ...

An alternative rock band is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its biggest album by unearthing songs from the vault. 311 released “90s Throwback EP: Vol 1″ on Friday, the first of a two-part ...

"Zombie" is, no doubt, The Cranberries' most successful song. It topped charts around the world and reintroduced the band as ...

What's the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s? The 1990s were the decade in which alt-rock music truly came into its own. During the '80s, many of alt-rock's heroes were mostly relegated ...

Classic rock didn't end with the '80s. As you'll see in the list of songs below, the '90s offered plenty of reason for rock music fans to tune into something other than the same records they had been ...

The Top 50 American Rock Songs don't necessarily scream "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!," but there's no mistaking the country of origin for most of these artists. The songs below, as selected by the UCR staff, ...