This book looks inside the artists and music that transformed the American and British soundscape of the 1980s and '90s.
Scene-setting essays - some with interviews of key figures - explore alternative rock's primary influences, from Captain Beefheart to Brian Eno, and its many subgenres, from punk to grunge and Brit pop to trip hop.
Reviews and profiles cover over 2 000 recordings and more than 500 musicians, such as The Beastie Boys, The Cure, R.
, Marilyn Manson, XTC and hundreds more.
Backbeat Books Alternative rock: the best musicians and recordings, paperback/dave thompson
