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Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. Although the term was most commonly associated in its commercial heyday with a loud, distorted guitar sound, its original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the

Electronic rock, also commonly referred to as synthrock, electro rock or digital rock, is rock music generated with electronic instruments. It has been highly dependent on technological developments, particularly the invention and refinement of the synthesizer, the development of the MIDI digital format and computer technology. In the late 1960s rock musicians began to use electronic instruments, like the theremin and Mellotron, to supplement and define their sound, by the end of the decade the

Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock (i.e., alternative ) tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart. This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue of Billboard. It was originally titled Top Tracks and accompanied by a Rock Albums chart, which was discontinued in 1984 (a new chart with the same name was introduced in 2009) .

Progressive rock (also referred to as prog rock or prog) is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just succeed the pop of the 1960s as much as take its rightful place beside the modern classical music of Stravinsky and Bartók. Progressive rock bands pushed rock's technical and

Blues rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12 bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier, giving it an overdriven character. The style began to develop in the mid 1960s in England and the United States. UK Bands, such as The Rolling Stones and The Animals and American

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census. The MSA is in turn included in the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Pine Bluff, Arkansas Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 877,091 in the 2010 census, making it the 47th largest combined statistical area in America. As of the 2010 US Census, Little Rock had a population of 193,524, making it the 118th