#alternative-rock

#alternative-rock

Emo started in the 1980s and really came to be a widespread genre throughout the 1990s, but emo's massive breakthrough moment came in 2001, with a series of albums that would take the genre out of the underground and onto television screens, radio stations, festival lineups, Myspace top 8s and Hot Topics all across America and beyond. Like when grunge broke into the mainstream a decade earlier, it was the culmination of a sound that had been building for over a decade,

The most acclaimed albums of 2025 make for impressively eclectic listening. Surveying them does not reveal much in the way of obvious musical trends. There's very little similarity between Rosalia's heady classical approach to pop on Lux and Lily Allen's conversational disclosures on West End Girl. You could broadly group CMAT's Euro-Country, Bon Iver's Sable, Fable and the Tubs' Cotton Crown together as alternative rock but they don't sound anything like each other.

Her previous releases have been featured on BBC Radio 1's Alternative Show. In the studio, she has worked with Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Best Coast), Ken Andrews (Paramore, M83), Micah Tawlks (Hayley Williams, Noah Kahan, Ashe), and her longtime producer, Stephen Laurenson. When she's not making music, Mel can usually be found playing World of Warcraft or getting lost in fantasy novels.

Craig Wedren knew he wanted to be a rock star after discovering KISS, influenced by his mother's musical tastes and inspired by vocalists like Freddie Mercury and Ozzy Osbourne.