The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to alternative rock and its sub-genres, as well as to create missing articles. This project replaces WikiProject Indie music and expands its scope to cover both underground and mainstream components of alternative music. This project is not intended to cover all underground music, mainly that which developed after the advent of punk rock and has been termed "indie" or "alternative"; however, since such obscure topics might escape the notice of other editors or projects, they can be brought to the attention of participants of this Wikiproject on the Talk Page.

You can also help to improve the Alternative music collaboration of the week, an alternative music-related article selected by community consensus to be collaboratively improved over a month's time, ideally to elevate it to good or featured level status.

Please add tasks needing to be done in the appropriate section, and remove them accordingly when they are completed.

WikiProject on Alternative/Indie rock music

Please add your name to this list using {{user|username}}

• WesleyDodds (talk · contribs)
• Osbus (talk · contribs)
• Jmabel (talk · contribs) (minimally available right now)
• Maxcap (talk · contribs)
• La_Pizza11 (talk · contribs)
• ChrisB (talk · contribs)
• PokeOnic (Talk)
• Bagel7 (talk · contribs)
• Folkor (talk · contribs)
• St jimmy (talk · contribs)
• Phorque (talk · contribs)
• Ellie Nash (talk · contribs)
• Andrew McM (talk · contribs)
• Kingfisherswift (talk · contribs)
• Xinit (talk · contribs)
• Icelandic Hurricane (talk · contribs)
• Cambrant (talk · contribs)
• Wootking (talk · contribs)
• Patrik with a P (talk · contribs)
• Surachit (talk · contribs)
• Tenaciousd (talk · contribs)
• Deanster (talk · contribs)
• Frédérick Lacasse (talk · contribs)
• Lueser (talk · contribs)
• DavidJJJ (talk · contribs)
• Doctorfreedom (talk · contribs)
• Scrumshus
• Crestville (talk · contribs)
• XXXtylerXXX (talk · contribs)
• Happycat93 (talk · contribs)
• Cyanofix (talk · contribs)
• mike2121212 (talk · contribs)
• Caf3623 (talk · contribs)
• Lbr123 (talk · contribs)
• Teemu08 (talk · contribs)

These require sources, images, audio, and other contributions to bring them to Featured status.

• Arctic Monkeys
• Björk (former)
• Kurt Cobain
• Garbage (band)
• Green Day (former)
• Oasis (band)
• Pixies
• Henry Rollins
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• Elliott Smith
• Sonic Youth
• "This Charming Man"
• Jack White (musician)
• The White Stripes
• U2

• Danse Society
• Flesh for Lulu
• Glide
• The Locusts
• Saccharine Trust
• Los Jotas
• Film School

• College rock
• Dream pop
• Noise pop
• Post-punk revival
• Sadcore

• Cinerama (band)
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• fIREHOSE
• Karate (band)
• Love Spit Love
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Siouxsie & the Banshees
• The Sugarcubes
• Superchunk
• Meg White

• Archers of Loaf
• Billy Corgan, particularly the citations and External Links
• "Elephant Stone"
• Faith No More The article is kind of rambling and has some POV issues.
• Fields of the Nephilim
• Franz Ferdinand (band) general cleanup, POV, refs
• John Frusciante 40kb long; needs some focus
• Grebo
• Green Day discography
• Morrissey cleanup, POV
• Paul Westerberg
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Ruined in a Day"
• Strangeways, Here We Come in need of POV cleanup (as well as possibly other Smiths albums).
• The Three O'Clock
• Tony Kanal

• Jarvis Cocker
• Starshaped

• Ash (band)
• Indie (music)
• Indie rock
• Radiohead
• Robyn Hitchcock
• The Replacements

• Positive punk into Gothic rock

• The Cure needs to be trimmed down a little bit as well as have some POV toned down.
• Britpop needs to cite its sources in the text.
• Make sure that all alternative subgenres are listed on the Alternative rock page
• Make sure alternative bands are listed on the proper subgenre pages and categories.
• Greater distinction should be made between Indie pop and Twee pop. Twee is a subset of the broader label of indie pop, but both articles cover a lot of the same ground.
• The proper name of Shoegazing/shoegaze/shoegazer needs to be determined.
• Pearl Jam needs sources and a rather severe cleaning of external links
• Rock Kills Kid needs a picture of the band and some more information.
• Hüsker Dü needs soundclips and more inline citations.
• Green Day needs some more photos other than just the band and American Idiot photos.
• They Might Be Giants has continued problems trying to attain Good Article status.

• Grunge music
• Nirvana (band)
• This Charming Man (former)

• Template:altrock
• Template:alternativerock

• List of alternative rock artists
  • List of Britpop musicians
  • List of dream pop artists
  • List of Gothic rock bands
  • List of indie rock artists
  • List of post-rock bands
  • List of shoegazing musicians

These templates can be used in a variety of places to by members of the project.

Code	Result	Usage
{{Wikiproject Alternative music}}	Alternative music NA‑class This page is part of WikiProject Alternative music, a group of Wikipedians interested in improving the encyclopedic coverage of articles relating to alternative rock. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page.Alternative musicWikipedia:WikiProject Alternative musicTemplate:WikiProject Alternative musicAlternative music NA This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.	Place this WikiProject notice at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject Alternative music for guidelines.
{{User Wikiproject Alternative Music}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Alternative music.	Our very own Userbox

The parent of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Music and WikiProject music genres.

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

• /COTW
• /General
• /Strategy

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Computer music.
• WikiProject Classical music.
• WikiProject Electronic music.
• WikiProject Indie music (inactive)
• WikiProject Metal music
• WikiProject Punk music