Artist	Song
The White Stripes	Fell In Love With a Girl
from White Blood Cells (2002)
Spoon	I Turn My Camera On
from Gimme Fiction (2005)
Arcade Fire	Rebellion (Lies)
from Funeral (2004)
The Postal Service	Such Great Heights
from Give Up (2003)
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk
from Vampire Weekend (2008)
The Shins	New Slang
from Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Franz Ferdinand	Take Me Out
from Franz Ferdinand (2003)
Death Cab for Cutie	The Sound of Settling
from Transatlanticism (2003)
Radiohead	Nude
from In Rainbows (2007)
TV On the Radio	Wolf Like Me
from Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Phoenix	1901
from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
The Frames	Falling Slowly
from The Cost (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Rilo Kiley	Portions for Foxes
from More Adventurous (2004)
Santigold	L.E.S. Artistes
from Santigold (2008)
Sufjan Stevens	Chicago
from Illinois (2005)
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Animal Collective	My Girls
from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
Wilco	Jesus, Etc.
from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2007)
The New Pornographers	The Laws Have Changed
from Electric Version (2003)
Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks
from Writer's Block (2007)
Various Artists & The Moldy Peaches	Anyone Else But You
from Murderball (2007)
Elliott Smith	Son of Sam
from Figure 8 (2000)
Badly Drawn Boy	The Shining
from The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Silversun Pickups	Lazy Eye
from Carnavas (2011)
The Polyphonic Spree	Light & Day / Reach for the Sun
from The Beginning Stages of the Polyphonic Spree (2003)
Fleet Foxes	White Winter Hymnal
from Fleet Foxes (2008)
Metric	Gold Guns Girls
from Fantasies (2009)
The xx	Crystalised
from xx (2009)
Band of Horses	The Funeral
from Everything All the Time (2006)
!!!	Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)
from Louden Up Now (2004)
Damien Rice	Cannonball
from O (Deluxe Version) (2003)
Devendra Banhart	Lover
from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (2007)
M. Ward	Chinese Translation
from Post-War (2006)
The Rapture	House of Jealous Lovers
from Echoes (2003)
Sleater-Kinney	Modern Girl
from The Woods (2005)
LCD Soundsystem	Tribulations
from LCD Soundsystem (2005)
The National	Fake Empire
from Boxer (2007)
Interpol	PDA
from Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)
Bright Eyes	Lover I Don't Have to Love
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Dashboard Confessional	Stolen
from Dusk and Summer (2007)
Cat Power	The Greatest
from The Greatest (2006)
Bon Iver	Skinny Love
from For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
Dirty Projectors	Stillness Is the Move
from Bitte Orca (2009)
Nada Surf	Always Love
from The Weight Is a Gift (2005)
Yo La Tengo	Mr. Tough
from I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
The Decemberists	July, July!
from Castaways and Cutouts (2003)
The Bird and the Bee	Again & Again
from The Bird and the Bee (2006)
Stephen Malkmus	Jenny and the Ess-Dog
from Stephen Malkmus (2001)
Bloc Party	Helicopter
from Silent Alarm (2005)
Super Furry Animals	Hello Sunshine
from Phantom Power (2003)
Grizzly Bear	Two Weeks
from Veckatimest (2009)
Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
from Let's Get Out of This Country (2006)
The Magnetic Fields	I Don't Believe You
from i (2004)
The Airborne Toxic Event	Sometime Around Midnight
from The Airborne Toxic Event (Deluxe Edition) (2009)
The Walkmen	The Rat
from Bows + Arrows (2004)
Dr. Dog	Hang On
from Fate (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Belle and Sebastian	Another Sunny Day
from The Life Pursuit (Bonus Tracks) (2006)
Ra Ra Riot	Can You Tell
from The Rhumb Line (2008)
Rogue Wave	Eyes
from Eyes - Single (2006)
The Hold Steady	Your Little Hoodrat Friend
from Separation Sunday (2005)
Broken Social Scene	Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
from You Forgot It in People (2003)
Stars	Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
from Set Yourself On Fire (2004)
The Raveonettes	Dead Sound
from Lust Lust Lust (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
The Kills	U.R.A. Fever
from Midnight Boom (2008)
Antony & The Johnsons	Hope There's Someone
from I Am a Bird Now (2007)
The Clientele	(I Can’t Seem To) Make You Mine
from Strange Geometry (2005)
Blonde Redhead	23
from 23 (2007)
of Montreal	Gronlandic Edit
from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
Wolf Parade	Shine a Light
from Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
The Boxer Rebellion	Spitting Fire
from Union (2009)
The Sea and Cake	Aerial
from Car Alarm (2008)
Earlimart	Nevermind the Phonecalls
from Mentor Tormentor (2007)
Okkervil River	Unless It's Kicks
from The Stage Names (2007)

Comment:

If there’s one thing we’ll always love about alternative rock, it’s how open-ended the alt part of the equation is. Especially in the new millennium, as songs are served with decadent dashes of disco-punk and buffered beats (Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, She Wants Revenge), guillotine-like guitars and tremor-triggering basslines (System of a Down, Disturbed, Papa Roach), and thoroughly scuffed rock references that sound the way hipsters look when they roll out of bed in the afternoon (the Strokes, the Hives, the White Stripes). Come to think of it, even pop-punk’s rules were rewritten in the ’00s, from the Broadway-bound turns of Green Day and Panic! At the Disco to the ridiculously catchy skate-park choruses of Yellowcard and Blink-182.

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