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The following lists bands or artists that are played on adult album alternative radio stations, or have been cited as part of the adult alternative pop/rock music genre. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
At worst, adult alternative releases sound like trite pop songs without words. Find Adult Alternative Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Adult Alternative Music on AllMusic.
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Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format. A spinoff from the album-oriented rock format, its roots trace to the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier freeform and progressive formats.
The format has a broader, more diverse playlist than most other formats. Musical selection tends to be on the fringe of mainstream pop and rock as well as many other music genres such as indie rock, Americana, pop rock, alternative rock, alternative country, jazz, folk, world music, new wave, jam band and blues. The musical selections tend to avoid...
AAA artists take influence from post-new wave British bands such as The Smiths and The Cure, anthemic post-punk inspired sounds of U2, acoustic alternative folk rock (Indigo Girls, Jeff Buckley, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow), and alternative rock (Counting Crows, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M.). The music played has gained signi...
Some of the songs that first air on the Triple-A format have later found additional popularity on the Adult Top 40, modern rock, or adult contemporary charts months after their initial Triple-A chart runs. The format is often seen as a "test market" for emerging artists.
The format has gone off and on in the Los Angeles radio market.
On July 10, 2008 Billboard began a Triple-A chart (using information from sister-publication Radio and Records, a news magazine devoted to the radio and the music industries that has since ceased publication). Rival Mediabase 24/7 also compiles a Triple A chart. As of mid-2009, Radio and Records publications and accompanying charts were discontinued. As of 2010, Billboard publishes Triple A charts in the magazine and for its premium members on its website. Mediabase also publishes Triple A charts on a daily basis.
Additional Triple-A charts are published by CMJ and FMQB. FMQB also produces the annual Triple A Conference in Boulder, Colorado, USA, an event that grew out of the Gavin Report's Triple A Summit, first held in 1993. FMQB took over production of the event, rebranding it as the Triple A Conference, after the closing of Radio & Records in 2009.
•Active rock, a format that, similar to adult album alternative, features classic rock and contemporary rock, but with an emphasis on hard rock
•Adult Alternative Songs, also known as Triple A, a record chart published by Billboard
•Adult contemporary music (radio format), a format with a much more pop-oriented playlist, that is much softer and not too adventurous
•Album-oriented rock (FM radio format)
•List of adult alternative artists
•List of soft rock artists and songs
Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format. Its roots trace to both the "classic album stations of the ’70s as well as the alternative rock format that developed in the ’80s." Format. The format has a broader, more diverse playlist than most other formats.
Adult alternative styles -- whether acoustic, electronic, or electro-acoustic -- are heavily influenced by pop, rock, and jazz fusion elements. (Some albums feature a few vocal selections with lyrics, although the main orientation remains instrumental.) The best artists have a flair for melodic invention, colorful instrumentation, and rhythmic ...
Adult Alternative Pop / Rock. One of the branches of alternative rock that emerged after the genre's absorption into the mainstream, adult alternative pop/rock is a smooth, melodic, radio-friendly style that packaged alternative's mellower side for wider consumption.
Adult Album Alternative (auch Triple-A, AAA oder Adult Alternative) ist ein Radioformat. [1] [2] [3] Seine Wurzeln gehen sowohl auf die „ klassischen Albumstationen der 70er Jahre als auch auf das alternative Rockformat, das sich in den 80er Jahren entwickelte“, zurück.
