| COLLECTIVESOUL | Post-grunge band whose name is a phrase from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" |
| ATLAS | ___ Shrugged trilogy of American films which were adapted from Ayn Rand's novel of the same name |
| REVIS | "Places for Breathing" post-grunge band |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| EVERYMOTHERSSON | 1960's pop group named after a phrase from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| NIRVANA | Grunge band whose surviving members reformed for the Fire Aid concert (7) |
| TAD | Grunge band whose final album was 1995's "Infrared Riding Hood" |
| MINDGAMES | *Song by John Lennon (1973) and Sickick (2017) whose title is a phrase meaning "psychological manipulation" |
| LILA | Name that when spelled backwards is a phrase that means "Kinda" |
| ALTERNATIVE | ___ rock style of music that was popularized in the 90s and has sub-genres like emo and post-grunge |
| MIDRIFF | 'Tum' is a phrase central to score (7) |
| BUTTROCK | Post-grunge movement derided as "one part aggro noise, one part self-indulgent and whiny singer" |
| ROARK | Howard ___ (Architect in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead) |
| INXS | '80s band whose name is a phonetic spelling of a phrase meaning "too much" |
| GALT | Main character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged and the subject of the constant question, 'Who is |
| ASIA | Heat of the Moment band whose name is a continent |
| KORN | Metal band whose name is a homophone of a yellow vegetable |
| ALT | ___-J (indie-rock band whose name is a keyboard shortcut for the symbol ∆) |
| ALTJ | "Breezeblocks" band whose name is the Mac keyboard shortcut used to type the Δ symbol |
| BTS | Pop band whose name is short for the Korean phrase "bulletproof boy scouts" |
