Our editors' picks for the best Rock & Alternative songs this year.  Cover:  Fontaines D.C.

Editors' picks: Best Rock & Alt Songs of 2024

Linkin Park

From Zero

The Emptiness Machine

Fontaines D.C.

Starburster

Mannequin Pussy

I Got Heaven

Loud Bark

The Cure

Songs Of A Lost World

A Fragile Thing

The Last Dinner Party

Prelude to Ecstasy

The Feminine Urge

Jack White

No Name

That's How I'm Feeling

Brittany Howard

What Now

IDLES

TANGK

Gift Horse

St. Vincent

All Born Screaming

Broken Man

Blondshell

Bully

Docket (feat. Bully)

Hozier

Unreal Unearth: Unaired

Too Sweet

beabadoobee

This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Beaches

Cage The Elephant

Neon Pill

Amyl and The Sniffers

Cartoon Darkness

U Should Not Be Doing That

Twenty One Pilots

Clancy

Next Semester

Bring Me The Horizon

POST HUMAN: NeX GEn

YOUtopia

Green Day

Saviors

Dilemma

Pearl Jam

Dark Matter

Wreckage

The Linda Lindas

No Obligation

All In My Head

Sam Fender

People Watching

Wunderhorse

Midas

The Black Keys

Ohio Players

On The Game

Hinds

VIVA HINDS

Beck

Boom Boom Back

The Black Crowes

Happiness Bastards

Wanting and Waiting

The Smile

Wall Of Eyes

Friend Of A Friend

The Killers

Bright Lights

Mdou Moctar

Funeral for Justice

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Flight b741

Field of Vision

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Wild God

Kings of Leon

Can We Please Have Fun

Mustang

The Beaches

Takes One To Know One

Catfish and the Bottlemen

Showtime

Gary Clark Jr.

JPEG RAW

Maktub

Inhaler

Your House

Badflower

Detroit

The Warning

Keep Me Fed

S!CK

The Offspring

SUPERCHARGED

Make It All Right

Dead Poet Society

FISSION

Running In Circles

EKKSTACY

The Kid LAROI

alright (feat. The Kid LAROI)

Amira Elfeky

Will You Love Me When I’m Dead

ONE OK ROCK

Dystopia

Sum 41

Heaven :x: Hell

Dopamine

The Smashing Pumpkins

Aghori Mhori Mei

Sighommi

Cassyette

This World Fucking Sucks

When She Told Me

Jack Kays

SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD

Destroy Boys

Funeral Soundtrack #4

Scowl

You Hear Yes

Origami Angel

Feeling Not Found

Dirty Mirror Selfie

julie

my anti-aircraft friend

clairbourne practice

SOFT PLAY

HEAVY JELLY

Everything and Nothing

DIIV

Frog In Boiling Water

Brown Paper Bag

Kim Gordon

The Collective

BYE BYE

High Vis

Guided Tour

Mind's a Lie

English Teacher

This Could Be Texas

Pixies

The Night the Zombies Came

You're So Impatient

The Jesus Lizard

Rack

Hide & Seek

Chelsea Wolfe

She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

House Of Self-Undoing

Touché Amoré

Spiral In A Straight Line

Nobody’s

House of Protection

Pulling Teeth

The Story So Far

I Want To Disappear

Letterman

ALEXSUCKS

What're We Doing Here

Soccer Mommy

Driver

Kinky

Beach Bunny

Clueless

Wishy

Triple Seven

Love On The Outside

Kasabian

Happenings

Call

illuminati hotties

POWER

Can't Be Still

The Lemon Twigs

A Dream Is All We Know

My Golden Years

Skegss

High Beaming

Momma

Ohio All The Time

Been Stellar

Scream from New York, NY

Pumpkin

Superheaven

Long Gone

Special

Drug Church

Demolition Man

Softcult

Spiralling Out

Metz

Up On Gravity Hill

Light Your Way Home

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