Unlike many alternative rockers, Veruca Salt revels in brute force.

The song was covered by alternative rockers The Breeders in 1993.

IN the 1990s to be an alternative rocker in Mexico City usually meant a few specific things.

The new, ultimately unanswerable, question for alternative rockers, who always seem to be mumbling to themselves, is: Who's listening now?

The final song on the program was unexpected: it was the only one not previously recorded by Nirvana or even written by an alternative rocker.

An alternative rocker doesn't stand much of a chance of using that medium, nor does a salsa singer, especially one with dark skin.

The club books local bands and touring ones, from alternative rockers to singer-songwriters.

But alternative rockers were looking for alternative heroes to celebrate.

Duncan Sheik lacks the wan look of an alternative rocker.

These aren't the direct, down-to-earth statements of traditional blues; Whitley, like many alternative rockers, keeps his words oblique.