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Favorite rock groups from after 1990

By far most of the good rock bands that have come around after 1990 are unsigned acts or groups that aren't in heavy rotation on the radio. In other words... there's plenty of good music out there, you just have to look harder for it now.

These are some of my faves (mainly just the signed acts) that either had their peak in the 90's or started in the 90's or later:

Porcupine Tree
Radiohead
Ghost
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Muse
Incubus
Deftones (RIP Chi)
Alice in Chains
Garbage
Smashing Pumpkins
Tame Impala
STP
Soundgarden
Hooverphonic
Sneaker Pimps
Massive Attack
Portishead
No Doubt
Korn
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Jonathan's Comedown
Darkside
Cake
Alanis Morrissette
Blind Melon
Sixpence None the Richer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Live
Silverchair
Eminem
Puddle of Mudd
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Primus
Coldplay
The Prodigy
NIN
Poe
...
 
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Seeing people mockingly comment on whether or not there are rock bands from after 1990 reminded me I have a huge list of great bands on my phone. Here we go!

-1000mods
-Badflower
-Baskery
-Beehoover
-Bernelius
-Black Pistol Fire
-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
-Blue Horizon
-BoneHawk
-Burn Thee Insects
-Clutch
-Derelics (can only find the album "Guilty of Being Young" but it's an astonishingly good album)
-Disrule
-Five the Heirophant
-Goodbye June
-Half Gramme of Soma
-Heavy Stone
-Holy Mammoth
-Kurse
-Lausch
-Liblikas
-Lowrider
-Mother of God ("Anthropos" is a stellar album)
-Microwave
-Mountains (the one with the album "Dust in the Glare")
-Nap
-O'Brother
-Octopussy
-Port Nocturnal
-Quiet Oaks
-Red Bowling Ball
-Red Fang
-Royal Thunder
-Ruff Majik
-Rx Bandits
-Sautrus
-Sasquatch
-Shotgun Sawyer
-Sinoptik
-Slothrust
-Somali Yacht Club
-Sorority Noise
-Spaceslug
-Stoned Jesus
-Stone Falcons
-Sungrazer
-Supercruel
-Three Leg Dog
-Truckfighters
-Turnover
-Voodoo Queen (the one with the album "Ride Through Hell")
-Weedpecker
-Wilson

And those are just the bands who've impressed me enough to keep a record of their names and how exactly to find their music if I ever forget, because clearly that's a lot to remember because there is actually still a lot of phenomenal music being made. It's just in a relatively narrow scene while the rock, and even metal, genre over all is being diluted by "radio-friendly" songs (read: Pop).
 
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Then why bother clicking on the thread?

It’s his opinion. It’s all good.

My choices would be Stone Temple Pilots, Son Volt, very early ‘90s REM, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica, Hootie and the Blowfish, Matchbox 20, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Spin Doctors. I liked Blue Rodeo’s album “Casino” and the Hoodoo Guru’s “Kinky.” Rage Against the Machine, Jane’s Addiction, RHCP, Living Colour, Muse, Rush, Counting Crows, Black Crowes. There’s a lot more I can’t think of.
 
I had to look at a list of groups from the 90's, as I was in therapy for that decade... my issue being, the 80's were done...

... Foo Fighters, definitely, and possibly Green Day... although the latter was formed in the mid to late 80's...

... serious, I must have been hiding under a huge boulder, as almost every group listed in this thread, I've never heard of...

... and now, back to, 'Roll The Bones' '91, 'Counterparts' '93, and 'Test For Echo' '96... I do remember them.