Smells Like Alt Rock

Should have posted these late July drops last Sunday - but here we are only hours before the next of wave new songs drop. Here's the small group of songs to get our August playlist started. Mayday Parade - Sweet Sad Sugar Citizen Soldier - Flatline Martin Garrix, U2 - Fireflies The Pretty Reckless - Devil in Disguise Switchfoot - Butterfly Effect Muse - The Sickness in You & I Eva Under Fire - Survive My Scars Like Roses - Buried Diva Bleach, Out In Front - Wake Up! Bike Routes - There It Goes Waterparks, Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Sorry My Love, Eric Nally - Tell Me Why Mod Sun - 2 AM Lenny - Casanova Talk - Up & Away The Paradox - I Kinda Like That

That's it! We're calling it and cutting the July 2026 playlist down to our top 20 favorites. Hope you've enjoyed these new tunes as much as we have.  Your favorite didn't make the list, that's okay check the 2026 - 2030 playlist and thanks to all the bands for all the new music!  Fuel take the top spot for July 2026 with their new single "Want It" ahead of October's album Pendulum.  Fuel - Want It Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides The Haunt - Worst Taste in Men Letdown. - Did It To You Switchfoot - Beautiful Life Mayday Parade - Lying to Myself Deer Fang - No Matter What The Beaches - Hypothetical Fai Laci - Cure Upon the Hill Shinedown - Machine Gun Sleeping with Sirens - House of Matches The Pretty Reckless - About You Royale Lynn - Altar Movements - Separate The Warning - Ritual Bike Routes - Ripley Against the Current - You and I Des Rocs - Sing Me Back To Sleep Eva Under Fire - My Own Name Knuckle Bones - Salah Honorable Mentions: Oleander - Fourth...

 Continue to build up our July playlist before start cutting back, we've probably got one more week to build up before we tear it down to just our favorites from the month. Check out this week's new tracks below or on Spotify .  Nickelback with John 5 - Rattle The Cage Sawyer Hill - Alibi Dexter and the Moonrocks - If You Could Talk The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw Gin Blossoms - Everywhere As It Is - I'm So Alive! Stand Atlantic - Lucid Slowly Slowly, Alex Lahey - Let's Go Out Theory of a Deadman - Funeral Song Minute After Midnight - It Was Never A Phase If Not For Me, Windtalkers - I Lie Awake

 We are part way through another year full of fantastic music. And while we love spinning up a single here and there, it's good to do some album listening too.  We'll start with our favorites so far in 2026, then touch on the albums we know we need to spend more time listening too, and we'll wrap with upcoming albums we are pumped for: Favorites in Retrospect: (with a sample of each) Lansdowne - Wish You Well Silversun Pickups - Tenterhooks The Format - Boycott Heaven Black Stone Cherry - Celebrate Tigers Jaw - Lost On You Sevendust - One The Maine - Joy Next Door Sly Withers - Make My Mind Up Deer Fang - Forest For The Trees Shinedown - Ei8ht Death Cab for Cutie - I Built A Tower Switchfoot - Forever Now Yonaka - Until You're Satisfied The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw The Pretty Reckless - Dear God What We Need To Spend More Time With: Eva Under Fire Des Rocs - To Hell and Back Evanescence - Sanctuary Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy Metric - Romanticize the Dive...

Summer is halfway through and the summer heat is just hitting Wisconsin - hot new tracks are still dropping as 2026 rolls on. Here's are this week's additions to our Alt Rock July list. (Music Videos or Visualizers includes this week.) Listen to them all on Spotify by clicking here  or checkout the videos below.  Fuel - Want It The Haunt - Worst Taste in Men Eva Under Fire - My Own Name Movements - Separate  Catch Your Breath - Rewind Lakeview w/ The Ghost Inside - Kill Me First Switchfoot - Broken Wings Sleep Theory - My Heart Citizen - I Can See You From Here Mayday Parade - Lying To Myself

It's time to wrap up Quarter two of 2026 - lots of great songs played on repeat in April, May, and June, and we've narrowed them down to our favorites of the quarter. Citizen Soldier takes the cake with Only One coming out on top, but Black Stone Cherry landed on the list three times this quarter.   Listen to the Something Like Alt Rock 2026 Q2 Playlist Spotify and check out the list below.  Citizen Soldier - Only One Shinedown - Young Again Switchfoot - Absolution Black Stone Cherry - I'm Fine Deer Fang - Howl Broadside - What Are You Leaving Behind Tiger's Jaw - Lost On You Lansdowne - Feel You Coming Theory of a Deadman - Barricade Des Rocs - Riders of Red Hook Evanescence - Who Will You Follow Black Stone Cherry - Caught Up In The Up Down Out In Front - The Sound Keo - That's Me Mayday Parade - Blame it on the Youth Black Stone Cherry - Deep Letdown. - Do It For The Love The Cab - Sweet Kerosene Nothing But Thieves - Evolution The Maine - Half a Spark Sawyer Hi...

Feels like I've been waiting for ages to do this post. With Fuel's new single, "Want It" dropping on July 10 ( Pre-save it here ), now is the time.  I've been listening to Fuel since 1998 - the year that featured the band on Godzilla The Album and the release of the Sunburn album with features hits Shimmer (peaked at #2 on the alternative charts) and Bittersweet (peaked at 17 on the alternative charts).  While the original line-up had changed by 1998, the line-up most fans became familiar with comprised of: Brett Scallions, Carl Bell, Jeff Abercrombie, and Kevin Miller started major touring sprints with bands like Buckcherry, Kid Rock, Oleander, Three Doors Down and many more. If somehow, you missed falling in love with the Sunburn album, you probably bought their sophomore album. But let's pause for a second, before I get ahead of myself. I loved "Walk The Sky", I remember thinking that I'd never heard anything like, and high school me knew that...

New month, new music. July continues to deliver plenty of great alt rock tracks.  Here's a drop of 44 songs for you to get started with. Too many to do music videos for them all.  But we've got a bunch of familiar faces on this one. Give listen on Spotify .  If you are new to how this works, we build up a list all month long, then at the end of month cut it back to our favorites.  Props to Oleander for using a Bomp Pop as their art for their new single Fourth of July.  The Pretty Reckless - About You Switchfoot - Beautiful Life Fai Laci - Cure Upon The Hill Deer Fang - Forest For The Trees Petey USA - Like A Mantra The Beaches - Hypothetical Dear Youth, As December - Illusion Shinedown - Machine Gun Hoobastank - How Do You Sleep The Menzingers - Better Angels Letdown. - Did It To You Voila - The Wilt To Live Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides Evanescence - Wide Open Heaven Movements - Everything Is Fine Mayday Parade - Weekend Music Porch Light - Arctic Judah & ...

Fell massively behind this month - so we'll do this post a little differently. The June list will still be cut back to our top songs, but we'll introduce you to all of the songs here. All of the songs have been added to our Alt Rock 2026-2030 playlist .  Check out the June Playlist by clicking here - and see all of the song below.  Top Songs for June: Shinedown - Young Again Deer Fang - Howl Nothing But Thieves - Evolution Keo - That's Me Against the Current - Deadman Walking Lakeview - Wreck My Night Almost Monday - Skinny Dip The Haunt - Alone On Your Planet High June - Passing Through Sawyer Hill - Tyin' the Noose Dexter and the Moonrocks - 12 Steps Eva Under Fire - The Words You Say Sublime - Gangstalker Judah & The Lion - Maybe the Best is Now Young the Giant - This Too Shall Pass Honorable Mentions: My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na The Pretty Reckless - Dear God Framing Hanley - The Reckoning Death Cab for Cutie - Stone Over Water Halsey - Lucid And the rest of...