Here are 11 of the best alternative rock ballads of the 1990s. The 1990s were a pivotal decade for the alternative rock genre. While the genre is most often remembered for grunge-influenced angst, it ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

What are some of the best ballads by big grunge artists? Although grunge is known mainly as a sullen, dark style of music with a droning atmosphere and emotionally-charged lyrics, the bands we ...

"Alone" by American rock band Heart was recently voted among the 50 Greatest Power Ballads in Rock History by Ultimate Classic Rock—but many fans may not know that the song was actually a cover. The ...

What are some of the best ballads by big grunge artists? Although grunge is known mainly as a sullen, dark style of music with a droning atmosphere and emotionally-charged lyrics, the bands we ...

'Alone' could have been lost to history if Heart didn't cover it.