Best Alternative Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album recognizes artistic excellence in alternative music albums. Alternative music embraces attributes of progression and innovation, and may include recordings that do not fit into other genre categories.
35th Annual Grammy Awards • 1993
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1991 and Aug 30, 1992
Tom Waits won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album with "Bone Machine"
Winners & Nominees 1993
Previous Winners
| Year | Winner | Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cure | Songs Of A Lost World | All Nominees |
| 2025 | St. Vincent | All Born Screaming | All Nominees |
| 2024 | boygenius | The Record | All Nominees |
| 2023 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | All Nominees |
| 2022 | St. Vincent | Daddy's Home | All Nominees |
| 2021 | Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | All Nominees |
| 2020 | Vampire Weekend | Father Of The Bride | All Nominees |
| 2019 | Beck | Colors | All Nominees |
| 2018 | The National | Sleep Well Beast | All Nominees |
| 2017 | David Bowie | Blackstar | All Nominees |
| 2016 | Alabama Shakes | Sound & Color | All Nominees |
| 2015 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent | All Nominees |
| 2014 | Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires Of The City | All Nominees |
| 2013 | Gotye | Making Mirrors | All Nominees |
| 2012 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | All Nominees |
| 2011 | The Black Keys | Brothers | All Nominees |
| 2010 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | All Nominees |
| 2009 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | All Nominees |
| 2008 | White Stripes | Icky Thump | All Nominees |
| 2007 | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | All Nominees |
| 2006 | White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | All Nominees |
| 2005 | Wilco | A Ghost Is Born | All Nominees |
| 2004 | White Stripes | Elephant | All Nominees |
| 2003 | Coldplay | A Rush Of Blood To The Head | All Nominees |
| 2002 | Coldplay | Parachutes | All Nominees |
| 2001 | Radiohead | Kid A | All Nominees |
| 2000 | Beck | Mutations | All Nominees |
| 1999 | Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | All Nominees |
| 1998 | Radiohead | Ok Computer | All Nominees |
| 1997 | Beck | Odelay | All Nominees |
| 1996 | Nirvana | MTV Unplugged In New York | All Nominees |
| 1995 | Green Day | Dookie | All Nominees |
| 1994 | U2 | Zooropa | All Nominees |
| 1993 | Tom Waits | Bone Machine | All Nominees |
| 1992 | R.E.M. | Out Of Time | All Nominees |
| 1991 | Sinéad O'Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | All Nominees |
