List of alternative rock artists
This is a list of alternative rock artists. Bands are listed alphabetically by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by the first name.
0–9
- +44
- 3 Doors Down
- 4 Non Blondes
- 8stops7
- 10 Years
- 12 Stones
- 13 Engines
- 54-40
- The 77s
- 311
- The 1975
- 10,000 Maniacs
A
- A
- A-ha
- A Day to Remember
- A Perfect Circle
- A Rocket to the Moon
- A Silent Film
- Aaroh
- Abandon Kansas
- Abandoned Pools
- The Academy Is...
- Acceptance
- Acid Bath
- Acroma
- Adam Again
- Adam Gontier
- Adema
- Adorable
- The Afghan Whigs
- AFI
- After Midnight Project
- Against Me!
- Against the Current
- Age of Chance
- Air
- Alanis Morissette
- The Alarm
- Alex Clare
- Alice in Chains
- Alien Ant Farm
- Alkaline Trio
- The All-American Rejects
- All Time Low
- The Almost
- Alpha Rev
- Alt-J
- Alter Bridge
- American Authors
- American Hi-Fi
- American Standards
- The Amps
- Amplifier
- Anathema
- Anberlin
- Andy Biersack
- Angels & Airwaves
- APB
- The Apex Theory
- Arcade Fire
- Arcane Roots
- Architecture in Helsinki
- Arctic Monkeys
- Area 11
- Arkells
- Armor For Sleep
- ArmsBendBack
- Art of Anarchy
- As Tall As Lions
- Ash
- Asian Kung-Fu Generation
- At the Drive-In
- The Ataris
- Athlete
- Atlas Genius
- Atom Smash
- Audioslave
- The Auteurs
- Autolux
- Avril Lavigne
- Awolnation
B
- B-52s
- Babes in Toyland
- Baby Chaos
- The Backseat Lovers
- Bad Books
- Bad Suns
- Badflower
- Balance and Composure
- Band of Horses
- Barenaked Ladies
- Baryonyx
- Bastille
- Battles
- Bayside
- Be Your Own Pet
- Beady Eye
- Beastie Boys
- Beatsteaks
- Beck
- Beirut
- Belly
- Ben Folds Five
- Ben Kweller
- Beth Orton
- Better Than Ezra
- Beware of Darkness
- Biffy Clyro
- Big Black
- Big Dipper
- Big Wreck
- The Big Pink
- Billy Corgan
- Billy Talent
- Birds of Tokyo
- Björk
- Blackfield
- Black Kids
- Black Light Burns
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Bleachers
- Blind Melon
- Blind Pilot
- Blindside
- Blink-182
- Bloc Party
- Blonde Redhead
- Blood Red Shoes
- Bloodhound Gang
- Blue October
- Blumfeld
- Blues Traveler
- Blur
- Bôa
- Bob Mould
- Bodyjar
- Bon Iver
- Bowling For Soup
- Boys Like Girls
- Bracket
- Brand New
- Brandon Flowers
- Breaking Benjamin
- The Breeders
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Broder Daniel
- The Brobecks
- Buck-Tick
- The Buck Pets
- Buffalo Tom
- Bully
- Bush
- Butthole Surfers
C
- The Cab
- Cage the Elephant
- Cake
- The Calling
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Candlebox
- Canterbury
- Carbon Leaf
- Cartel
- Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
- Catatonia
- Catherine
- Catherine Wheel
- Cave In
- The Charlatans
- Cherri Bomb
- Chevelle
- Chris Cornell
- Chronic Future
- Chumbawamba
- Circa Survive
- Citizen Cope
- Civil Twilight
- CKY
- The Classic Crime
- Cog
- Coheed and Cambria
- Cold
- Cold War Kids
- Coldplay
- Collective Soul
- Concrete Blonde
- The Connells
- Consolidated
- The Constellations
- The Cooper Temple Clause
- Copeland
- Counting Crows
- The Cranberries
- Crash Karma
- Crash Test Dummies
- Crazy Town
- Creed
- Crossfade
- Cui Jian
- The Cure
- Curve
- Cyclefly
D
- The Dandy Warhols
- Dark New Day
- Das Damen
- Dashboard Confessional
- Dave Matthews Band
- Dave Navarro
- Days Of The New
- Deacon Blue
- Dead by Sunrise
- Dead Letter Circus
- Dead Poetic
- Dead Sara
- Deaf Havana
- Deep Blue Something
- Default
- Deftones
- Demon Hunter
- Depeche Mode
- Dig
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Dir En Grey
- Dishwalla
- doubleDrive
- Dredg
- Drill
- Duran Duran
- Dutch Uncles
E
- Eagle-Eye Cherry
- The Early November
- Econoline Crush
- Eddie Vedder
- Editors
- Eels
- Eisley
- Elbow
- Electrasy
- Eleventh Dream Day
- The Elms
- Elvis Costello
- Embodyment
- Emery
- Enter Shikari
- Envy on the Coast
- Eraserheads
- Evanescence
- Evans Blue
- Eve's Plum
- Eve 6
- Everclear
- Everything Everything
- The Exies
- The Exit
F
- Failure
- Faith No More
- The Fall
- Fall Out Boy
- Falling in Reverse
- Far-Less
- Fastball
- Fatboy Slim
- Fatherson
- Feeder
- Feist
- Fiction Plane
- Fightstar
- Filter
- Finch
- Finger Eleven
- Fiona Apple
- Fishbone
- Five For Fighting
- The Flaming Lips
- Fleshwater
- Foo Fighters
- The Format
- Forty Foot Echo
- Fountains of Wayne
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Fray
- Freeze the Atlantic
- Fuel
- Fugazi
- Fun Lovin Criminals
- Funeral For A Friend
- Further Seems Forever
- Future Palace
G
- The Gandharvas
- Garbage
- The Get Up Kids
- Gin Blossoms
- Glassjaw
- Glasvegas
- Gnarls Barkley
- Godsmack
- The Golden Palominos
- Gomez
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Good Charlotte
- Gorillaz
- Gotye
- Grant Lee Buffalo
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Grayscale
- Greek Fire
- Green Apple Quick Step
- Green Day
- The Gufs
- Guided by Voices
- Gumball
- Guster
H
- Half Moon Run
- Halestorm
- HalfNoise
- Happy Mondays
- Hawksley Workman
- Hawthorne Heights
- Headstones
- Headswim
- Helium
- Helmet
- HIM
- The Hives
- Holding Absence
- Hoobastank
- Hootie & The Blowfish
- Hopesfall
- Hot Hot Heat
- Hum
- Hundred Reasons
- Hurt
- Hüsker Dü
I
- I Dont Know How but They Found Me
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
- I Mother Earth
- The Icarus Line
- Idlewild
- Ima Robot
- Imogen Heap
- Incubus
- Injected
- The Innocence Mission
- Institute
- Interpol
- Island of Love
- Ivoryline
J
- Jack White
- Jack's Mannequin
- Jaguares
- James
- James Iha
- Jane Air
- Jane's Addiction
- Jars of Clay
- Jellyfish
- Jerry Cantrell
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Jesus Jones
- The Jesus Lizard
- Jet
- Jimmie's Chicken Shack
- Jimmy Eat World
- Jitters
- John Butler Trio
- Joywave
- The Joy Formidable
- The JudyBats
- Julian Cope
- Juliana Hatfield
- The Juliana Theory
- July Talk
- Jump, Little Children
K
- K's Choice
- Kagoule
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Kaizers Orchestra
- Kaleo
- Kane
- Kara's Flowers
- Karnivool
- Kasabian
- Keane
- KennyHoopla
- Kent
- Kevin Devine
- Kill Hannah
- The Killers
- The Kills
- King Charles
- Kings Kaleidoscope
- Kings of Leon
- Kitchens of Distinction
- Kisschasy
- Klaxons
- KMFDM
- Kodaline
- Kongos
- The Kooks
- Korn
- Kula Shaker
- Kutless
L
- The La's
- Lacuna Coil
- LANY
- L'Arc-en-Ciel
- The Lemonheads
- Less Than Jake
- Letters to Cleo
- Life of Agony
- Lifehouse
- Limblifter
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Lit
- Live
- Liz Phair
- Local H
- Lord Huron
- Love Battery
- Lovedrug
- Lower Than Atlantis
- The Lowest of the Low
- Lucero
- Ludo
- Luscious Jackson
M
- Mad Season
- Madrugada
- Mae
- The Maine
- Major Moment
- Mallory Knox
- Manchester Orchestra
- Mando Diao
- Måneskin
- Manic Street Preachers
- Mansun
- Marcy Playground
- Marlene Kuntz
- Marvelous 3
- Mary's Danish
- Matchbox Twenty
- The Matches
- Material Issue
- Matthew Good
- Matthew Sweet
- Maxïmo Park
- Mayday
- The Mayfield Four
- Mazzy Star
- The Mekons
- Melvins
- Metric
- MewithoutYou
- Middle Class Rut
- Midori
- The Mighty Lemon Drops
- Millencolin
- Mobile
- Moby
- Modest Mouse
- Moist
- Moke
- Monoral
- Morningwood
- Morphine
- Morrissey
- Mor ve Ötesi
- Moses Mayfield
- Moth
- Mother Love Bone
- Mother Mother
- Motion City Soundtrack
- Mudhoney
- Mudvayne
- Mumford & Sons
- Muse
- Mutemath
- My Chemical Romance
- My Midnight Creeps
- My Vitriol
- Myles Kennedy
N
- N.E.R.D
- Nada Surf
- The Naked and Famous
- Natalie Merchant
- The National
- Needtobreathe
- The Neighbourhood
- Neon Trees
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Neverending White Lights
- New Empire
- New Found Glory
- New Model Army
- New Order
- New Politics
- New Radicals
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Nickel Creek
- Nickelback
- Nico Vega
- Nine Black Alps
- Nine Days
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nine Lashes
- Nirvana
- No Devotion
- No Doubt
- Noah
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Nothing But Thieves
O
- O.A.R.
- Oasis
- The Ocean Blue
- Oceansize
- The Offspring
- Of Monsters and Men
- Of Montreal
- OK Go
- Oleander
- Olivia Rodrigo
- One OK Rock
- OneRepublic
- Orbit
- Orgy
- Ostava
- Our Lady Peace
- Ozma
P
- P.O.D.
- Palaye Royale
- Pale Saints
- Palm Ghosts
- Panic! at the Disco
- Papa Roach
- Parabelle
- Paramore
- Paul Westerberg
- Paul Weller
- Pavement
- Pearl Jam
- Pete Yorn
- Phantom Planet
- Phoenix
- Phoxjaw
- Pierce the Veil
- The Pillows
- Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Placebo
- Plain White T's
- Plastic Tree
- Pleymo
- Pluto
- Poets of the Fall
- Poor Old Lu
- Pop Evil
- Pop Will Eat Itself
- Porcupine Tree
- Porno for Pyros
- Portishead
- Portugal. The Man
- The Posies
- Possum Dixon
- The Postal Service
- Poster Children
- Powerman 5000
- The Presidents of the United States of America
- The Pretenders
- The Pretty Reckless
- Primal Scream
- Prime Circle
- Prime STH
- Primitive Radio Gods
- The Primitives
- Primus
- The Prodigy
- Project 86
- The Psychedelic Furs
- Public Image Ltd.
- Puscifer
- Puddle of Mudd
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Pulp
- Punchline
- Puressence
- PVRIS
- Pylon
Q
- Queenadreena
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Quietdrive