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

Editors' Picks: Best Rock & Alt Songs of 2025

Turnstile

NEVER ENOUGH

Viagra Boys

viagr aboys

Uno II

Wolf Alice

The Clearing

Bloom Baby Bloom

Geese

Getting Killed

Trinidad

Hayley Williams

Mirtazapine

Militarie Gun

God Save The Gun

Kick

Wisp

If Not Winter

Black swan

Model/Actriz

Pirouette

Diva

Die Spitz

Something To Consume

Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry for the Delay)

Fontaines D.C.

Romance (Deluxe Edition)

It's Amazing To Be Young

The Belair Lip Bombs

Hey You

Deftones

private music

infinite source

Florence + The Machine

Everybody Scream

Bad Omens

Specter

Momma

Welcome to My Blue Sky

I Want You (Fever)

YHWH Nailgun

45 Pounds

Sickle Walk

Snõõper

Worldwide

Star 6 9

Scowl

Are We All Angels

Not Hell, Not Heaven

Shady Nasty

TREK

SCREWDRIVA

sleepazoid

NEW AGE

Julia Wolf

PRESSURE

In My Room

Ecca Vandal

CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE

Yumi Zouma

Drag

YUNGBLUD

Idols

Zombie

Sleep Token

Even In Arcadia

Gethsemane

Florence Road

Break the Girl

chokecherry

Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls

Goldmine

Speed

PEACE

ivri

the theory of you

tower of memories

Hot Mulligan

The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still

It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here

House of Protection

Outrun You All

I Need More Than This

Nova Twins

Parasites & Butterflies

N.O.V.A

La Dispute

No One Was Driving The Car

Man with Hands and Ankles Bound

Jean Dawson

Rock A Bye Baby, Glimmer of God

Prize Fighter

Teethe

Magic Of The Sale

Holy Water

Algernon Cadwallader

Trying Not to Have a Thought

Hawk

yeule

Evangelic Girl is a Gun

Upchuck

I'm Nice Now

Plastic

Twenty One Pilots

Breach

The Contract

Internet Girl

THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST US ALL THE TIME

I CHANGED (I'M UP)

Rocket

R is for Rocket

One Million

Pabst

Cool Car, Stupid Decisions

The Last Dinner Party

The Scythe

ALEXSUCKS

The Headache

Sam Fender

People Watching

Little Bit Closer

grandson

BRAINROT

Wet Leg

moisturizer

catch these fists

Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Dang

Sofia Gobbi

That Ass!

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Pogo Rodeo

The Real Contra Band

Maruja

Pain to Power

Look Down On Us

Drumfish

Mint

Chloe Slater

Love Me Please

Sucker

Petey USA

The Yips

The Milkman

Bee Bee Sea

Stanzini Can Be Allright

It's All About the Music

Sex Mask

Birds/Beheadal

Beheadal

Biffy Clyro

Futique

True Believer

PLAIINS

Do One

Cryogeyser

Wednesday

Mountain

Anxious

Bambi

Counting Sheep

ONE OK ROCK

DETOX (International Version)

Tropical Therapy

Glazyhaze

SONIC

WHAT A FEELING

JOSY

Marianne

Lambrini Girls

Who Let The Dogs Out

Cuntology 101

Kathryn Mohr

Waiting Room

Elevator

First Day Back

Forward

Sure, Ok

Lina-Mariah

Girl With A Gun, Angry

Master Peace

Spin The Block

White Reaper

Only Slightly Empty

Blue 42

Tropical Fuck Storm

Fairyland Codex

Goon Show

SKIRT.

Sweet

Beaks

Clueless

Girl Tones

Burnout

Hitsujibungaku

D o n’ t ‌ ‌ ‌L a u g h ‌ ‌ ‌I t ‌ ‌ ‌O f f

Cari Cari

One More Trip Around The Sun

I Lied, Amber

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