Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music

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Project
The Alternative music WikiProject is a project, created on 16 April 2006, that helps to assemble editors interested in alternative rock and indie rock, as well as other forms of alternative music. 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.

If you feel that you can make a positive contribution to the project, become a member by joining the list of members. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

Goals
The goals of this WikiProject are:
  • To improve Wikipedia's coverage of alternative music, by creating and improving articles related to the subject.
  • Maintain and improve the alternative music portal
Relatives
The parents of this WikiProject are Music and Music genres WikiProjects. Similar WikiProjects include: WikiProject Computer music, WikiProject Classical music, WikiProject Electronic music, WikiProject Emo music, WikiProject Metal music, WikiProject New Wave music, WikiProject Punk music, and WikiProject Rock music.

The taskforces of this WikiProject are the Pixies taskforce, the Nirvana taskforce and the Supergrass taskforce.

The descendants of this WikiProject are, in no particular order: WikiProject My Chemical Romance, WikiProject Green Day, WikiProject The Smashing Pumpkins, WikiProject Red Hot Chili Peppers, WikiProject The Flaming Lips, WikiProject Powderfinger, WikiProject Deftones, and WikiProject Nine Inch Nails.

Tasks
If you are wondering where to start, take a look at these tasks:

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WikiProject Alternative Music

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth live, at Accelerator, Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm, Sweden on 2005-07-07.
Quick links
Portal Alternative music portal
Shortcuts WP:ALM, WP:ALTROCK (main page)
WT:ALM (talk page)
Template → {{Wikiproject Alternative music}}
Member userbox {{User Wikiproject Alternative Music}}
Discussion pages
General discussion
Statistics
Alternative music
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 12 38 28 84
A 2 2
Good article GA 3 13 28 28 72
B 3 62 100 24 189
Start 30 241 260 1 532
Stub 46 256 302
Assessed 12 119 453 596 1 1181
Unassessed 1 4 5
Total 12 119 453 597 5 1186

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Featured content
Articles
  Grunge music   May 24, 2005     Joey Santiago   November 18, 2007
  Nirvana (band)   August 15, 2005   Dream Days at the Hotel Existence   November 18, 2007
  Elliott Smith   August 5, 2006   One Hot Minute   November 26, 2007
  Pixies   October 22, 2006   Powderfinger   November 28, 2007
  Frank Black   January 31, 2007   Loveless (album)   December 18, 2007
  The Smashing Pumpkins   March 15, 2007   Spiderland   December 22, 2007
  Doolittle (album)   April 2, 2007   Internationalist (album)  December 23, 2007
  "Bam Thwok"   April 11, 2007   Radiohead   January 7, 2008
  Adore (album)   April 20, 2007   Slay Tracks (1933-1969)   January 7, 2008
  Surfer Rosa   April 20, 2007   David Lovering   January 21, 2008
  "Smells Like Teen Spirit"   April 20, 2007   "I Don't Remember"   January 21, 2008
  Kate Bush   May 7, 2007   U2   January 23, 2008
  Kid A   May 22, 2007   R.E.M.   January 24, 2008
  Stereolab   June 19, 2007   Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt   January 26, 2008
  Uncle Tupelo   June 19, 2007   Anodyne (album)   January 26, 2008
  Californication (album)   July 7, 2007   "Monkey Gone to Heaven"   February 1, 2008
  Dookie   July 26, 2007   Alice in Chains   February 11, 2008
  Be Here Now (album)   July 30, 2007   "Just Like Heaven" (song)   March 2, 2008
  By the Way   July 30, 2007   Flea (musician)   March 5, 2008
  Blood Sugar Sex Magik   August 14, 2007   Bernard Fanning   March 10, 2008
  Sky Blue Sky   August 14, 2007   Odyssey Number Five   March 10, 2008
  "Today"   September 3, 2007   In Rainbows   March 11, 2008
  Wilco   September 17, 2007   "This Charming Man"   March 24, 2008
  Pearl Jam   September 24, 2007   Silverchair   March 28, 2008
  John Frusciante   September 24, 2007   "Touch Me I'm Sick"   May 10, 2008
  Audioslave   September 29, 2007   Diorama (album)   May 14, 2008
  Nine Inch Nails   October 13, 2007   Nine Inch Nails live performances   May 17, 2008
  Pinkerton (album)   November 5, 2007

Lists
  Wilco discography   July 21, 2007     Nine Inch Nails discography   November 21, 2007
  The Make-Up discography   September 12, 2007   Nation of Ulysses discography   December 20, 2007
  Neutral Milk Hotel discography   September 12, 2007   Dave Gahan discography   December 28, 2007
  Nirvana discography   September 24, 2007   Dischord Records discography   January 7, 2008
  Lightning Bolt discography   September 24, 2007   Load Records discography   January 25, 2008
  The Breeders discography   September 27, 2007   Depeche Mode discography   February 23, 2008
  John Frusciante discography   September 29, 2007   Alice in Chains discography   February 28, 2008
  List of Powderfinger awards   October 2, 2007   Silverchair discography   March 19, 2008
  Uncle Tupelo discography   October 13, 2007   Bloc Party discography   May 2, 2008
  Red Hot Chili Peppers discography   October 20, 2007   Sonic Youth discography   May 16, 2008
  Powderfinger discography   October 22, 2007   The Libertines discography   May 21, 2008
  Pavement discography   November 6, 2007   Foo Fighters discography   May 26, 2008
  Feeder discography   November 12, 2007   Smoking Popes discography   May 26, 2008
  Minutemen discography   November 14, 2007   The Strokes discography   June 3, 2008
  List of Silverchair awards   November 18, 2007
Topics
  Wilco discography   October 11, 2007   Dream Days at the Hotel Existence   February 14, 2008
  Powderfinger discography   January 11, 2008

Members
This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username at the end of the list using the {{user}} template (e.g. {{user|USERNAME}}). If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project.
User Comments
WesleyDodds (talk · contribs) Project's jack-of-all-trades. All-around helper in all areas of the project. Primarily interested in 1980s alt-rock, grunge, Britpop, shoegaze, and early gothic rock. Expert knowledge of topics relating to Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, and R.E.M., to name a few.
Osbus (talk · contribs)
Maxcap (talk · contribs)
ChrisB (talk · contribs)
Bagel7 (talk · contribs)
Folkor (talk · contribs)
St jimmy (talk · contribs)
Phorque (talk · contribs) Looking after Elliott Smith and currently trying to improve Deftones. Happy to help with making music samples or hunting down free images.
Kingfisherswift (talk · contribs)
Xinit (talk · contribs)
Icelandic Hurricane (talk · contribs)
Surachit (talk · contribs)
NSR77 (talk · contribs) Wikipedia's Red Hot Chili Peppers and John Frusciante expert. However; The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana are other artists I know a significant amount about.
Tenaciousd (talk · contribs)
DavidJJJ (talk · contribs)
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ProgressiveAeternus (talk · contribs)
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CloudNine (talk · contribs) Mostly contributing to articles related to the Pixies.
Ceoil (talk · contribs) The Fall. I also like bands that sound like Joy Division, and anything lo-fi.
Xobxela (talk · contribs)
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Ka5hmir (talk · contribs) I will contribute mainly to articles involving Radiohead. I am also looking to create a Radiohead WikiProject/Task Force - if you're interested, post on my talk page.
Darthgriz98 (talk · contribs)
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TommyStardust (talk · contribs)
Grovermj (talk · contribs)
Merzbow (talk · contribs)
Cbing01 (talk · contribs)
Riana (talk · contribs) Trying to focus on Aussie bands, and finding free images.
Scarps (talk · contribs)
killereditors (talk · contribs)
Xihix (talk · contribs) Trying to get some albums I like to FA status, like Dookie. Already got it to GA in a day.
M2Ys4U (talk · contribs) Muse fan!
Lostvalley (talk · contribs)
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Grim-Gym (talk · contribs) I'm very picky about which topics I'll commit to, but when I do, you'll notice.
Connorhalsell (talk · contribs) Will focus on grunge bands and related topics (especially Dinosaur Jr)
Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)
Sorchah (talk · contribs)
Tarc (talk · contribs) Grunge. Notable albums/singles have their info fleshed out. Also fair use for images.
Spebi (talk · contribs)
DMG111 (talk · contribs) I could focus on Arcade Fire and other Montreal bands (because I have a fair amount of knowledge about them) but would also like to contribute to other articles.
Cambrant (talk · contribs)
Chickpeaface (talk · contribs)
Atlantik (talk · contribs)
Thelastfetusdying (talk · contribs)
Pjoef (talk · contribs)
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Argezas (talk · contribs) Mainly fousing on industrial rock at the moment, but contributing to other articles as well.
Pbroks13 (talk · contribs)
Paper Back Writer 23 (talk · contribs) My main focus is and always has been working on the Hard-Fi page. Since I have started working it has gone from this, to this. I also enjoy working on the Franz Ferdinand page.
Burningclean (talk · contribs) I am mostly interested in grunge articles, and Alice in Chains is my main focus. I also like collaboration, and would love to work on the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Sceptre (talk · contribs)
IN THE EFFIGY (talk · contribs)
crislee 88 (talk · contribs)
Grrrlriot (talk · contribs)
indopug (talk · contribs)
Red Gown (talk · contribs) Very interested in contributing to late 70's glitter rock, proto-punk, punk, and 'new wave' articles.
Sunil060902 (talk · contribs) I helped Depeche Mode discography achieve Featured List status. Also contributed to other band-related articles
NewMarqueeDayMoonRising (talk · contribs) Interested in helping with spinoffs of alternative music, such alt-country(like Wilco) or alt-punk(Television)
Thundermaster (talk · contribs) I like The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse, The Cure, Blur, Oasis, Pixies, Linkin Park, Supergrass, Arcade Fire, Ash and Radiohead.
SuperNeek (talk · contribs)
Lighthead (talk · contribs)
Arleach (talk · contribs) Interested in Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, Folk Implosion, etc ... Close friends w/ Lou Barlow so I can find out most any information
Panic!out (talk · contribs) I love Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, The All American Rejects, Boys Like Girls...etc.
N0tverycreative (talk · contribs)
Gallagher2x2 (talk · contribs) The West Coast Anthony Green Authority
Seraphim Whipp (talk · contribs) Most of my major editing is in this area
guitardude3600 (talk · contribs) real alt music is good
Lunar Jesters (talk · contribs)
kristmace (talk · contribs) Main interest is Pearl Jam. I have done a lot of work on the Stone Gossard article.
TwentiethApril1986 (talk · contribs) My main interest is Supergrass. I have done a lot of work on Supergrass related articles.
JD554 (talk · contribs) Currently working on Echo & the Bunnymen related articles
Thom (talk · contribs)
Sethward (talk · contribs) Contributing to Pixies articles, mostlty.