Something Like Alt Rock: Best of 2025

We know great music is still dropping in December, but we have to call it at some point. So we'll keep the December and Q4 playlists going until the end of the month, but we're calling it for the year end of playlist. 



We tried hard to cut it down to 40 songs, but there were some songs we just couldn't cut and after reviewing our Spotify Wrapped there were some songs we needed to add, so we landed on 55 songs for 2025. Given that Wrapped says we listened to over 3700 songs this year, narrowing down to 55 is pretty good. In other words, here's the Something Like Alt Rock: Top 55 New Songs of 2025: 

  1. Those Damn Crows (pictured above) - No Surrender
  2. Smash Into Pieces - Heroes
  3. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Slipping Through
  4. Dorothy - Tombstone Town
  5. All Time Low - The Weather
  6. Senses - Stabilizer
  7. Bush - 60 Ways to Forget People
  8. Poesy - Home
  9. Royale Lynn - Greed
  10. Our Last Night - Version of Me
  11. Stereo Club - Familiar Faces
  12. Sawyer Hill - Masochistic Lover
  13. Knox - Pick Your Poison
  14. Senses - Tiptoeing
  15. Those Damn Crows - Turn It Around
  16. Mayday Parade - Who We Are
  17. The Rasmus - Love is Bitch
  18. Deer Fang - Left Unseen
  19. Shinedown - Three Six Five
  20. Muse - Unraveling
  21. Fall of Envy Incomplete
  22. As December Falls - Everything's On Fire But I'm Fine
  23. Yungblud - Ghosts
  24. Smash Into Pieces - Broken Halo
  25. Hinder - Bring Me Back To Life
  26. MDMP w/ Tantric - Constellations
  27. Letdown. - Young Broke
  28. Nevertel - Good Intentions
  29. Mammoth - The End
  30. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - X's for Eyes
  31. Late 9 w/ Paul Farrar - Sundown
  32. BRKN Love - Pulling Leeches
  33. Voila w/ Chri$tian Gate$ - After(h)ours
  34. Harm & Ease w/ Black Pontiac - Storm the Gates
  35. One OK Rock - Puppets Can't Control You
  36. Anberlin - Ready Fuels (w/ Matty Mullins)
  37. Smash Into Pieces - Villain
  38. Mayday Parade - Promises
  39. As It Is - Lose Yourself and Find Your Way
  40. Western Education - Coat of Arms
  41. Aerosmith w/ Yungblud - My Only Angel
  42. Mammoth - Same Old Song
  43. Evanescence - Afterlife
  44. The Verve Pipe - Dust
  45. Citizen Soldier - Sit In Your Shadows
  46. Lakeview - Name in a Song
  47. Halestorm - Like A Woman Can
  48. Dayseeker - Crawl Back In My Coffin
  49. Pistols at Dawn - You Forever
  50. Armor for Sleep - In Another Dream
  51. Lansdowne - Burn It Down
  52. Thrice - Holding On
  53. BRKN Love - Cruel
  54. Yellowcard - Better Days
  55. Taylor Acorn - Good-bye, Good Riddance




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