Alternative Rock · Artists
Top alternative rock artists
The top-rated alternative rock artist on Riffiter is Jeff Buckley, rated 4.9/5 by 5 listeners.
395 alternative rock artists ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 128 of 2,903 alternative rock albums, averaging 3.7/5, spanning 1972 to 2026.
02 Sonic Youth
7 ratings
03 The Smashing Pumpkins
5 ratings
04 Radiohead
29 ratings
05 The National
11 ratings
06 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 ratings
07 Queens of the Stone Age
15 ratings
08 Linkin Park
36 ratings
09 The Verve
1 rating
10 Jack White
7 ratings
11 Blur
5 ratings
12 The 1975
2 ratings
13 Pixies
10 ratings
14 Caifanes
3 ratings
15 Phoenix
5 ratings
16 Beck
4 ratings
17 My Chemical Romance
7 ratings
18 The Cardigans
1 rating
19 OneRepublic
1 rating
20 Placebo
1 rating
21 The Cure
12 ratings
22 Paramore
10 ratings
23 Coldplay
28 ratings
24 Royal Blood
9 ratings
25 Alanis Morissette
1 rating
26 Breaking Benjamin
2 ratings
27 All Time Low
2 ratings
28 Panic! at the Disco
3 ratings
29 Cage the Elephant
3 ratings
30 alt-J
4 ratings
31 Muse
25 ratings
32 Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 ratings
33 Foo Fighters
19 ratings
34 Silverchair
1 rating
35 Gorillaz
10 ratings
36 PJ Harvey
10 ratings
37 Foster the People
3 ratings
38 Fall Out Boy
4 ratings
39 Hayley Williams
40 Teoman
41 Manic Street Preachers
42 CAKE
43 The Dead Weather
44 Wolf Alice
45 Yot Club
46 Twenty One Pilots
47 The Script
48 Bastille
49 Keane
50 Capital Inicial
51 The Cranberries
52 Creed
53 30 Seconds to Mars
54 The Neighbourhood
55 Simple Plan
56 Snow Patrol
57 3 Doors Down
58 Zoé
59 fun.
60 Incubus
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