Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation?

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 10: 1999: By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …

  A decade of alt-rock ends in flames at Woodstock 99.

  February 22, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 9: 1998: You’re either with Korn and Limp Bizkit, or you’re against them

  Fuck sensitivity. It’s the late ’90s. Time for something nü.

  February 8, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 8: 1997: The ballad of Oasis and Radiohead

  Or, “Which is the better fuel for making the greatest British rock album of the ’90s: misery or cocaine?”

  January 25, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 7: 1996: Layne Staley and Bradley Nowell are the living dead

  The ghosts of Sublime and Alice In Chains live on.

  January 11, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 6: 1995: Live, Bush, and Alanis Morissette take the pop path

  When yesterday’s rebellion became the sound of the mainstream.

  December 14, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 5: 1994: Kurt Cobain is dead! Long live Soundgarden!

  The silence and shadows of 1994.

  November 30, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 4: 1993: Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, and Urge Overkill forsake the underground

  It’s 1993 and all eyes are on Chicago. There’s going to be trouble.

  November 16, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 3: 1992: Pearl Jam, the perils of fame, and the trouble with avoiding it

  Pearl Jam’s Ten puts adolescent angst and rage to music, and gives the band room to set a standard for how alt-rock groups worked in the ’90s.

  November 2, 2010 | 12:01am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 2: 1991: “What’s so civil about war anyway?”

  Nevermind and Use Your Illusion battle for a nation’s rock heart.

  October 19, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? Part 1: 1990: “Once upon a time, I could love you”

  New feature! Music writer Steven Hyden takes a year-by-year look at the rise, triumph, tragedy, and fall of ’90s rock. Up first: 1990.

  October 5, 2010 | 12:00am -