This is a list of alternative rock artists. Bands are listed alphabetically by the first letter in their name (not including "The"), and individuals are listed by the first name.
^"Avril Lavigne Essentials". Apple Music. Retrieved September 20, 2018. Alt-rock upstart Avril Lavigne came crashing into the charts in 2002 with a sound that stuck up a black nail-varnished middle finger at the hyper-polished world of classmates Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
^Strauss, Neil (April 23, 1998). "The Pop Life; Horde Festival Offers a Surprise". The New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2011. Faith No More, the 15-year-old San Francisco rock band known for its energetic mix of punk, jazz, heavy metal, alternative rock, samba, polka and easy-listening, has broken up.
^Zoladz, Lindsay. "Garbage: Not Your Kind of People". Pitchfork. Garbage reigned in the late-period glory days of alternative-rock radio, probably because their sound was a hectic amalgamation of almost everything that mingled on the format's airwaves: electronica, punk, industrial rock, grunge, and the occasional trip-hop
^"Jitters (Минск)" [Jitters (Minsk)] (in Russian). realmusic.ru. Archived from the original on May 19, 2005. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
^p1xel (November 10, 2006). "Справаздача : Прэзентацыя сiнгла JITTERS" [Report: the presentation of the single of JITTERS] (in Belarusian). xlam.by. Archived from the original on November 14, 2006. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
^*Blackwell, Mark. Gerr, Jim. Bernstein, Jonathan (December 1991), "The Year in Music", Spin (magazine), p. 33, Alternative rockers Siouxsie and the Banshees scored a top 40 hit with "Kiss Them for Me".((citation)): CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) *Schwartz, Missy (December 17, 2004), "Sioux City; New-wave goddess Siouxsie Sioux led the way for kick-ass frontwomen with bold style. And the Queen Banshee is still wailing", Entertainment Weekly, "Cities in Dust" (1985) was the first of a handful of alt-rock radio hits in the U.S.
^"Smashing Pumpkins" at the Billboard database and at AllMusic.com, and as both "Smashing Pumpkins" and "The Smashing Pumpkins" at the Rolling Stone database. The band is credited as "Smashing Pumpkins" on the covers of Gish, Siamese Dream, and Zeitgeist (and related singles), and as "The Smashing Pumpkins" between Mellon Collie (1995) and Earphoria (2002).