90s Alternative

No Depression:
A couple of years later, that simple album title and song became the actual name of a fan club on the internet as well as a chat group. However, it didn’t stop there – in ’95, a magazine that shared the same exact name went into publication, and the title “No Depression” soon became the leading title for the progressive movement of alternative country music. Some of the other names that were used to describe this music were “Americana” and “Insurgent Country”. It was also known as “Alternative Country” and that was the name that was used for the role that the internet played in the publicity and growth of this particular movement.

In general, alternative country or “No Depression” isn’t much of a threat to the country artists in the mainstream Nashville country music scene sales figures. However, the speed at which this music has caught on has really shown that there is a substantial amount of people that have grown a little weary of the pop trends that have been over produced in the nineties mainstream country music as well as the limited range of sounds and styles that are normally played on the radio stations that play country music.

Rap music during the latter part of the seventies and the eighties was commonly referred to as “old school” and it was created by DJs scratching records and playing the drum loops, with the MCs rapping over the rhythms that resulted. As time passed and the genre progressed, hard-hitting beats and hard-rock guitars were introduced by the ever-so-popular Run D.M.C. which was the very first hardcore rap group, and the techniques for scratching that were replaced by sampling.

Public Enemy:
Along with their very dense collages of different samples, white noise and beats, Public Enemy took sampling to a whole other level and they also helped to introduce political and social conscience to rap. In the nineties, this faded, as gangsta rap which was originally introduced by NWA, which used the sound from Public Enemy as a template, was able to become the most dominant form. However by the nineties, gangsta rap had become more stylish and smoothed over and consequently was found to be more popular than it has ever been.

There really are some different types of alternative nineties music, most of which is done underground. Some of the music genres that have alternative forms are rap, rock and country.