1. Tres Chicas are an alternative country group from Raleigh, North Carolina

2. We declare that there is such a thing as alternative country music.

3. But while alternative country-rock developed out of punk, alternative rock, and country itself, Americana sprung from less raw and edgy source material

4. The Bittersweets are an alternative country duo from Nashville, Tennessee, founded by singer-songwriter Chris Meyers (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Hannah Prater (vocals, guitar) in 2005

5. ISIS, which was born from the explosive crossing of violent Salafism and Iraqi Baathism, is an unprecedented project that aims to give Iraq and Syria's Sunni Arabs an alternative country, ruled by the sole precepts of Islam in its most rigorist form