Artist	Song
Coldplay	Viva la Vida
from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
Three Days Grace	Break
from Life Starts Now (2009)
Rise Against	Savior
from Appeal to Reason (2008)
The All-American Rejects	Gives You Hell
from When the World Comes Down (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Dani California
from Stadium Arcadium (2009)
Green Day	21 Guns
from 21st Century Breakdown (Deluxe Version) (2009)
Cobra Starship	Good Girls Go Bad (feat. Leighton Meester)
from Hot Mess (Deluxe Version) (2009)
Finger Eleven	Paralyzer
from Them vs. You vs. Me (2007)
Chevelle	Jars
from Sci-Fi Crimes (2009)
Sick Puppies	You're Going Down
from Tri-Polar (2010)
Linkin Park	New Divide
from New Divide - Single (2009)
Cage the Elephant	Back Against the Wall
from Cage the Elephant (2009)
Mudvayne	Do What You Do
from The New Game (Deluxe Version) (2008)
Pearl Jam	The Fixer
from Backspacer (2009)
Nickelback	Rockstar
from All the Right Reasons (2007)
Shinedown	Second Chance
from The Sound of Madness (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
30 Seconds to Mars	Kings and Queens
from This Is War (2009)
The Offspring	You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)
Seether	Fake It
from Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
The Temper Trap	Sweet Disposition
from Conditions (2009)
Silversun Pickups	Panic Switch
from Swoon (2011)
Foo Fighters	The Pretender
from Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits (2009)
Paramore	Misery Business
from Riot! (Deluxe Version) (2008)
MGMT	Kids
from Oracular Spectacular (2007)
My Chemical Romance	Welcome to the Black Parade
from The Black Parade (2006)
Death Cab for Cutie	I Will Possess Your Heart
from Narrow Stairs (2008)
Breaking Benjamin	I Will Not Bow
from Dear Agony (2009)
Anberlin	Feel Good Drag
from New Surrender (2008)
The White Stripes	Icky Thump
from Icky Thump (2007)
Them Crooked Vultures	New Fang
from Them Crooked Vultures (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Weezer	Pork and Beans
from Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe Edition] (2008)
Slipknot	Snuff
from All Hope Is Gone (Special Edition) (2008)
Apocalyptica	I Don't Care
from Worlds Collide (2008)
The Bravery	Believe
from The Sun and the Moon (2007)
Metric	Help I'm Alive
from Fantasies (2009)
AFI	Miss Murder
from DECEMBERUNDERGROUND (2006)
Florence + The Machine	Dog Days Are Over
from Lungs (2009)
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk
from Vampire Weekend (2008)
Feist	1234
from The Reminder (2007)
Wolfmother	Woman
from Wolfmother (2006)
OK Go	Here It Goes Again
from Oh No (2005)
10 Years	Wasteland
from The Autumn Effect (Bonus Track Version) (2005)
Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks
from Writer's Block (2007)
Michael Franti & Spearhead	Say Hey (I Love You) [feat. Cherine Anderson]
from All Rebel Rockers (2009)
Cold War Kids	Hang Me Up to Dry
from Robbers & Cowards (2008)
TV On the Radio	Wolf Like Me
from Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Theory of a Deadman	Bad Girlfriend
from Scars & Souvenirs (2008)
My Morning Jacket	I'm Amazed
from Evil Urges (2008)
Korn	Coming Undone
from See You On the Other Side (2005)
Metro Station	Shake It
from Metro Station (2007)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Face Down
from Don't You Fake It (2006)
Boys Like Girls	Love Drunk
from Love Drunk (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
The Dead Weather	I Cut Like a Buffalo
from Horehound (2009)
Flyleaf	All Around Me
from Flyleaf (2007)
The Used	Blood On My Hands
from Artwork (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Keane	Is It Any Wonder?
from Under the Iron Sea (2006)
311	Love Song
from Greatest Hits '93-'03 (2004)
Serj Tankian	Empty Walls
from Elect the Dead (2007)
Flobots	Handlebars
from Fight With Tools (2008)
Atreyu	Falling Down
from Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007)
Hockey	Too Fake
from Too Fake - Single (2009)
Slightly Stoopid	2am
from Chronchitis (2007)
Guster	Satellite
from Ganging Up On the Sun (2006)
Saliva	Always
from Back into Your System (2002)
Dropkick Murphys	I'm Shipping Up to Boston
from The Departed (Music from the Motion Picture) (2006)
The Fratellis	Flathead
from Costello Music (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Arctic Monkeys	I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Ludo	Love Me Dead
from You're Awful, I Love You (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Unwritten Law	Seein' Red
from Elva (2002)
Hot Hot Heat	Bandages
from Make Up the Breakdown (2002)
Louis XIV	Finding Out True Love Is Blind
from The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (2005)
New Found Glory	My Friends Over You
from Sticks and Stones (2004)
Cavo	Champagne
from Bright Nights * Dark Days (2009)
The Raconteurs	Steady As She Goes
from Broken Boy Soldiers (2006)

Comment:

While the ’90s was all about slacker revolts, the return of college rock, and such old-school revivals as ska and swing, the new millennium has given the guitar-guided charts a facelift on a monthly basis. So much so that we’ve been forced to compile not one, but two Essentials playlists devoted to the ’00s’ top alt-rock acts. You’re looking at the sequel right here — heart-wrenching emo with an erratic hardcore-punk pulse (Rise Against, New Found Glory, the Used), arena rock that’s ready for lighter-lifting and deafening sing-alongs (Red Hot Chili Peppers, 30 Seconds to Mars, Foo Fighters), nü-metal that actually sounds new (Korn, Slipknot, Linkin Park), and hard rock that reaches for the rafters, echoing the Stooges (the White Stripes) and Led Zeppelin (Wolfmother).

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