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Top 10 Best Alternative/Rock Bands 2000-2014

  • Jan 1, 2015
  • 2 min read

10. Editors

From: England

Albums: The Back Room (2005), An End Has a Start (2007), In this Light and On this Evening (2010), The Weight of Your Love (2013)

Subgenres: Brit Rock, Techno Rock, Hard Rock

Top Songs:

Munich

The Weight of the World

An End Has a Start

Bullets

A Ton of Love

Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (Live Acoustic)

From: Scotland

Albums: Past and Present (2010), Samba Samba Samba (2011)

Subgenres: Punk Rock, Math Rock, Hard Rock

Top Songs:

The Lion and the Pocketwatch

MidgetGems

The Arts Factory

SwizzleStick

Old Buccket Seats

From: England

Albums: Sigh No More (2010), Babel (2012)

Subgenre: Folk Rock

Top Songs:

The Cave

Babel

Sigh No More

Roll Away Your Stone

I Will Wait

Lover of the Light

7. Foals

From: England

Albums: Antidotes (2008), Total Life Forever (2010), Holy Fire (2013)

Subgenres: Math Rock, Dance Punk, Techno Rock

Top Songs:

Olympic Airways

Bad Habit

Spanish Sahara

Balloons

Miami

Tron

Late Night

From: USA

Albums: Twenty One Pilots (2009), Regional at Best (Not Available Legally, 2011), Vessel (2013)

Subgenres: Schizoid Pop, Rap Rock, Electronic Rock

Top Songs:

Fall Away

Addict With A Pen

House of Gold

Car Radio

Before You Start Your Day

Migrane

From: England

Albums: I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2009), Flaws (2010), A Different Kind of Fix (2011), So Long, See You Tomorrow (2014)

Subgenres: Techno Rock, Math Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, Hard Rock

Top Songs:

The Hill

What If

Dust On the Ground

Feel

Rinse Me Down

Shuffle

From: England

Albums: Bad Blood (2013), All this Bad Blood (Double Album, 2014) Vs. (Other People's Heartache, Part III) (Mixtape, 2014)

Subgenre: Techno Rock

Top Songs:

Pompeii

Icarus

The Draw

Bad Blood

Poet

From: USA

Albums: Night Visions (2012), Smoke + Mirrors (Upcoming in 2015)

Subgenres: Techno Rock, Hard Rock

Top Songs:

Demons

It's Time

Amsterdam

Radioactive (Acoustic)

The River

My Fault

From: Scotland

Albums: I am an Island (2014)

Subgenres: Brit Rock, Hard Rock, Folk Rock

Top Songs:

James

I Like Not Knowing (Acoustic)

Half the Things

First Born

Kiteers

Dust

From: England

Albums: Parachutes (2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), X&Y (2005, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Ghost Stories (2014)

Subgenres: Brit Rock, Piano Rock, Electronic Rock

Top Songs:

Don't Panic

Viva La Vida

Warning Sign

Shiver

Fix You

Clocks

White Shadows

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