Does anybody else like this as a term that includes "alt rock" and the alt-influenced music of the '80s and '90s? It would include stuff like R.E.M, grunge, lo-fi (Sebadoh, Pavement), noise rock like The Replacements, Husker Du, and Sonic Youth, alternative metal, alternative pop like the Rembrandts/the Lemonheads/the Sundays, britpop, '90s rave and techno music, Beck, the singer-songwriter/women in rock explosion of the '90s, post-grunge and altpop, pop-punk, and nu metal. This assumes modern rock is that which is punk and immediately sprung from it: classic punk, The Talking Heads, Blondie, The Smiths, The Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, hardcore punk, the Cars, the Cure, synthpop, etc. Then the 2000+ movement is "new modern rock", since it is heavily influenced by this.

I prefer it to 'alt-rock'....though I assume it doesn't have that much to do with other Postmodern movements, like Art, Sociology, Economics.etc.

I prefer it to 'alt-rock'....though I assume it doesn't have that much to do with other Postmodern movements, like Art, Sociology, Economics.etc.


Rock really only has cursory associations with any of those.... ;) I think it makes sense because that movement was defined as being after the modern rock revolution and influenced by it but certainly not part of modern rock, at all.