Some good alternative music?

OK get ready for a list

Audislave
A Perfect Circle /Tool
Butterfly Effect
Powderfinger
Smashing Pumkins
Tea Party
BuckCherry
Foo Fighters
grinspoon
Shinedown
Rouge Traders
Team Sleep
White Strips
Wolfmother
Trustcompany


Problem is with saying ALTERNATIVE is really a fucked up way to categories a genre i should never be called Alternative

so many genres cross over and get classed as alternative mainly if you don't make the top 40 crap in a way linkin park the nicklebacks bands like that technically ain't alternative

its a word I hate for example tool are hard rock nine inch nails industrial rammstein Industrial metal

those bands I named are pretty much not metal really just rock/ hard rock

people get confused on the word alternative

its just to vague to class it so i named a few bands that cross over in the genre