Best alternative music performance nominees are: Tori Amos, Beastie Boys, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and The Smashing Pumpkins.
By the time the tour ends, a lot more people will have seen the future of alternative music.
There are still classic rock stations like Q104 and WBAB, but no station presenting promising new bands or alternative music.
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One of the world's most revered alternative music figures, Manu Chao is nominated for his album La Radiolina, for Best Latin Alternative Album.
After forming in 1987, the veteran punk band broke through in 1994 with the release of "Dookie, " which sold 15 million and earned the band a Grammy for best alternative music performance.
Though Seattle and Portland are both pioneering liberal-minded cities with strong community roots, they have long traded jibes on non-sporting matters, such as the quality of their brew pubs, the hipster rating of their alternative music scenes and the potency of their single origin micro-roasted coffee.
In 1980 RPM begat Spinoff which in 1984 mutated into On the Wire, now the longest running continuous alternative music show on UK radio - and due to celebrate its 25th anniversary in September 2009 with a month-long extravaganza of special extended shows and guests from both Lancashire and across the globe.
During the four days it was in Madison, the network shot an episode of the alternative-music showcase Alternative Nation in WLHA's musty basement studios.
Spotify was launched in Sweden in 2008 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, out of a desire to develop a better, more convenient and legal alternative to music piracy.
Both need to be addressed if mobile music is to take off among consumers as a real alternative to using dedicated music players.
There are also attempts to discourage or control "Western" cultural imports, such as rap music and alternative youth culture.
It followed up by launching 6 Music, an alternative-rock station, and the Asian Network.
As an alternative to downloads, streaming music is gaining, served up in various styles by services like Pandora and Spotify.
Alternative therapies, such as music and other non-pharmacologic solutions, may also work, although we need more evidence-based research to know for sure.
In the face of flagging record sales, industry insiders are looking for alternative methods of making money in music.
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All three began life as alternative distribution channels iTunes for music, Netflix for movies and Hulu for TV.
Bajofondo is a studio Frankenstein in which electronic dance music is fused with Latin alternative rock, with echoes of Argentina's and Uruguay's local traditions of tango and milonga in undeniably contemporary music.
In Portugal during the Salazar dictatorship, composers had to make nationalistic use of folk music, which drove some into alternative careers.
The authority said classical music should be provided "in an alternative way" to make savings while still supporting the arts.
"Although the group's early years were more heavy-metal-based, they were one of the first bands to incorporate a more alternative and ethereal sound into their thunderous and visceral music, blazing a trail that newer bands continue to follow today, " Portnow said.
Another money-saving online alternative is Rhapsody, particularly if you buy a lot of music or you're not a iPod aficionado.
Pennsylvania State University is using the program to allow its students to access music download service Napster to give them a legal alternative to file sharing.
The annual Latin Grammy Awards have become a showcase for some of the best music Latino culture has to offer, including pop, alternative, traditional and classical.
Songwriter Vic Chesnutt has often been called gifted, but his music a spare, introspective and idiosyncratic brand of alternative folk rock is decidedly non-commercial.
There is the classic rock of Lou Reed maybe followed by the Rap music of Action Bronson or the Synthpop of New Order or alternative Rocker Phoenix.
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It was a shocking moment that made the alternative ending that HGO used a soft fading away of the music as Elisabeth cradles the dead Carlos in her arms all the more poignant and terrible.
Though Sonic Youth never achieved mainstream pop-music success, its members are recognized as pioneers of the alternative rock scene a band that helped break ground for groups such as Nirvana and Hole.
It was in this New York that the Beat Generation was born, with students dropping out of college and experimenting with drugs, music, sex and literature in a quest to find an alternative to the rampant, materialist lifestyles that they saw growing around them.
Bollywood music is still the mass market choice on Indian stereos, but the alternative scene is growing and thriving.
What is particularly important to him is that the music industry has made it clear to him that it values HMV - as an alternative to price-cutting online retailers and supermarkets that offer very limited choice.
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