{
  "name": "Alternative Rock",
  "description": "Performed with a less commercial sensibility, utilizing more eccentric, Punk-influenced sounds, moodier or quirkier lyricism, and sometimes ample amounts of distortion, often paired with Pop-influenced songwriting.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-rock/",
  "parent": "Rock",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 13,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Alternative Dance",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-dance/",
      "description": "Incorporates rhythms and synthesizers from Electronic Dance Music within the context of Alternative Rock and related styles; predominantly popular in the 1990s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Britpop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/britpop/",
      "description": "Emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, with a style hearkening back to the traditional guitar-driven songs and melodic hooks found in the British Pop Rock of the 1960s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dream Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dream-pop/",
      "description": "Reverberated guitars, effects-laden vocals, and dense productions, creating a psychedelic, spacious, and dreamlike sound.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Emo-Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/emo-pop/",
      "description": "Mainstream derivative of Emo, puts more emphasis on the poppy sensibilities of Alternative Rock and Pop Punk.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Geek Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/geek-rock/",
      "description": "Emphasizes a nerdy aesthetic, incorporating synthesizers and other instrumentation less common in Alternative Rock alongside quirky Pop-oriented songwriting and dense, witty lyricism on unconventional topics.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Grunge",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/grunge/",
      "description": "Mixes Punk and Metal sensibilities into a mid-tempo approach featuring a heavy, \"sludgy\" guitar sound, \"raspy\" vocals and angsty lyricism.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Indie Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/indie-rock/",
      "description": "Associated with a less mainstream-oriented and a DIY approach while often dabbling in Pop-informed melodic songwriting, eclecticism, and adopting an \"authentic\" or raw style.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jangle Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jangle-pop/",
      "description": "Treble-heavy guitars with arpeggiated melodies, distinct basslines, and often propulsive, repetitive strum-rhythms; frequently influenced by Post-Punk.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mall Screamo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mall-screamo/",
      "description": "Heavy instrumentation, melodic verse-chorus songwriting, and expressive singing contrasted with screaming vocals.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Post-Britpop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/post-britpop/",
      "description": "Emerged in the late 1990s as a Britpop expansion mainly characterized by acoustic-leaning instrumentation, lush string arrangements, and mid-tempo song structures, as well as less apparent lyrical concerns for Britain in favor of introspective, contemplative themes.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Post-Grunge",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/post-grunge/",
      "description": "Streamlined derivative of Grunge mixing crunchy guitar riffs with more accessible, hook-based structures.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shimokita-kei",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shimokita-kei/",
      "description": "Japanese style closely related to the Shimokitazawa indie scene, featuring Pop-informed songwriting, melodic guitar leads, expressive vocals, and often loud, prominent overdriven guitars.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shoegaze",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shoegaze/",
      "description": "Dense, noisy, and ethereal washes of sound primarily created with electric guitars and heavy use of effects pedals, such as fuzz, reverb, chorus, and delay, with vocals serving as a dreamy, usually unintelligible melodic layer.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    }
  ]
}