NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST!

This page is the hub for the No Paper. No Scissors. Rock Playlist! music series. This playlist focuses on the Rock genre and all of its sub-categories of rock music, such as Alt / Hard Rock / Alternative Rock / Grunge / Punk / Indie Rock / Progressive / Hardcore / Metal and everything in between in the world of rock music we can find to help you build and Expand Your Rock Playlist!

Update 2026

We are now starting VOLUME 4 of this playlist series. Scroll down below for the other volumes if you wish to slide down the rabbit hole of indie rock music. We just wrapped up Volume 3 – music featured in 2024 & 2025. Also in this page you can check out Volume 2 featuring rock music from 2023, and Volume 1 featuring music from 2015 to 2022.

What’s With the Dumb Title?

Oh, it gets dumber. If you have “No Paper” and “No Scissors”, then all you are left with is THE ROCK!
(You laugh now, but it’ll grow on you.)

If you scroll down, you will see all of the NPNS playlists from 2015 to now. Feel free to search around, listen to our playlists and discover new rock sounds from a variety of great rock musicians we have discovered for ourselves throughout the years from all over the world.

If you find a song or artist you like, don’t forget to give the bands and artists your follows, likes, and comments. Let’s give them some love so they will make more amazing music.

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10 YEARS OF NO PAPER AND NO SCISSORS!

In 2025, we celebrated 10 years of Expand Your Playlist, as well as 10 years of “No Paper. No Scissors.” as this music playlist series has been a STAPLE part of EYP since the very beginning in 2015. Take a listen back with us at 10 years of “just the rock” music with this special 100 song playlist! With this playlist we try to capture the variety of song styles, both unique and alike, as we revisit the rock music essential on our playlist.
CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTIRE 100 SONG RUNDOWN

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS.
ROCK PLAYLIST! – VOL. 1 (2015-2022)

130 Songs – 7hr 54min

Check out what songs made our NPNS playlists in the years of 2015 thru 2022 on our past playlists and podcast episodes!

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! – VOL. 2 (2023)

51 Songs – 3hr 3min

Experience the rock music that made our “No Paper. No Scissors. Rock Playlist!” in the 2nd Volume, curating the featured Rock music in 2023!

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #19 – (VOL. 2 – #1)
^{6 songs – April 2, 2023}
METALLICA – “If Darkness Had a Son”
CALVA LOUISE – “Third Class Citizen”
WORLD GONE COLD – “Burn”
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS – “Lucerne Valley”
THE TRUJILLO COMPANY – “Deeper and Deeper”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #20 – (VOL. 2 – #2)
^{6 songs – April 12, 2003}
SOLENCE – “Best For You”
SUPERLOVE – “GO!”
I CALL FIVES– “Honest & Only”
OF ALLIES – “Beyond The Wave”
MANESKINft. TOM MORELLO – “Gossip”
CASSYETTE – “Boom”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #21 – (VOL. 2 – #3)
^{6 songs – April 24, 2023}
SAINT AGNES – “Bloodsuckers”
CALVA LOUISE – “Feast Is Over”
ERIN COBURN – “Blossoms”
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS – “Slow Down”
COUNTER – “Come To Forever”
MARISA AND THE MOTHS – “Pedestal”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #22 – (VOL. 2 – #4)
^{6 songs – May 1, 2023}
MY FAVOURITE NEMESIS – “Eidolon”
BLACK SATELLITE – “Broken”
KAMELOT – “Eventide”
SAINT AGNES – “Animal”
NOLIA – “Hawg Head”
KARGYR – “Spice I (Coagulate)”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #23 – (VOL. 2 – #5)
^{9 songs – May 21, 2023}
GEARHEART – “California Dreamin’”
THE DOLLYROTS – “Still Holding On”
THE PEARL HARTS – “Baby Chaos”
THE LINDA LINDAS – “Too Many Things”
ANCHOR LANE– “Electric Karma”
GRANDMA ATE THE WOLF – “Break The Circle”
I FIGHT FAIL – “Low”
THE TRUJILLO COMPANY – “Dad & Me”
RIVALS – “Man Eater”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #24 – (VOL. 2 – #6)
^{9 songs – July 24, 2023}
STITCHED UP HEART – “Possess Me”
MUDSHARK – “Eyes of Medusa”
CALVA LOUISE – “Oportunista”
THE TRUJILLO COMPANY – “Mojo”
EDGE OF PARADISE – “Basilisk”
SCOWL – “Psychic Dance Routine”
RUMKICKS – “Punk Rocker”
JUNIOR – “Brick by Brick”
FUTURE STATIC – “Gasolina”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #25 – (VOL. 2 – #7)
^{10 songs – September 2023}
CIVIC– “Hourglass”
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS – “We Were Never Lost”
HONEY REVENGE – “Airhead”
THE DOLLYROTS – “Tell Me”
MY FAVOURITE NEMESIS – “Lost In Hollywood”
THE TRUJILLO COMPANY – “4 Arrows”
STITCHED UP HEART – “Conquer and Divide”
CALVA LOUISE – “Square One”
ELEINE – “We Shall Remain”
FOREVER STILL – “Find A Way”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS.
ROCK PLAYLIST! – VOL. 3 (2024 – 2025)

145 Songs – 10hr 51min

After a small yet powerful Volume 2, we exploded with a big volume of rock music that can definitely change your playlist! Experience the rock music that made our “No Paper. No Scissors. Rock Playlist!” in the 3rd Volume, curating the featured Rock music in 2024 & 2025!

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #26 – (VOL. 3 – #1)
^{12 Songs – 39 min 1 sec – March 2024}

SOLENCE – “Good F**King Music”
NEW YEARS DAY – “I Still Believe”
CINNAMON BABE – “Gaslight”
KAREN DIÓ– “Sick Ride”
DANCE GAVIN DANCE– “The Ghost of Billy Royalton”
BABY METALft. TOM MORELLO– “METAL!!”
LORD OF THE LOST – “Blood & Glitter”
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE – “Glory to the King”
THROW THE FIGHT – “Cover Your Tracks”
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS– “Blue”
COUNTER – “Darkness”
CALVA LOUISE – “Belicoso” (Audiotree Live Version)

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #27 – (VOL. 3 – #2)
^{12 Songs – 37 min 38 sec – May 2024}

BAD MARY – “Forget About It”
KAREN DIÓ– “Sick Ride”
KOV ZELONKY – “Sink & Swim”
BAD NERVES – “USA”
SAINT AGNES – “Follow You”
F.HERO/ BODYSLAM/ BABYMETAL– “Leave It All Behind”
DRAGONFORCE – “Wildest Dreams” (DragonForce’s Version)
EXIT EDEN – “Separate Ways”
QUEEN CULT – “Be Better”
DESPERATE HAUSEWIVES – “Another Dead Husband”
CHARLOTTE SANDS – “Pity”
REALITY SUITE – “Legendary”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #28 – (VOL. 3 – #3)
^{12 Songs – 38 min 8 sec – June 2024}

MARISA AND THE MOTHS – “Borderline”
BLUE HOUSE – “I Got Mine”
LOUNGE LIZARDS – “She Gets Me High”
COLLEEN WILD AND THE HAUNTED – “Savior”
HOT WAX – “Drop”
RUMKICKS – “Let’s Go”
NO! DISCO – “Brand New”
HONEY REVENGE – “Recipe For Disaster”
YONAKA – “Fight For The Right”
QUEEN CULT – “Stop Calling”
CRUEL SISTER – “Pull Back”
FAET – “Face It”

Additional Songs Added to NPNS – Part 1

ADDITIONAL ROCK SONGS ADDED TO NPNS VOL. 3 – PART 1
^{6 Songs – June 2024}
Here are a few songs added to the full NPNS 2024 playlist that were featured on our
RE-PLAYIST Weekly playlists. Here they are if you missed it.

NOTHING BUT THIEVES – “Oh No :: He Said What?”
SOLENCE – “A Banger A Day Keeps The Doctor Away”
CALVA LOUISE – “Under The Skin”
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS – “Fail”
THE BEACHES w/ ROYAL & THE SERPENT – “Blame Brett”
THE BEACHES – “Kismet”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #29 – (VOL. 3 – #4)
^{12 Songs – 50 min 5 sec – June 2024}

SWEET SPINE – “Anathema”
MARSEILLE – “She Can Fly”
A NEW NOWHERE – “Runaway”
RESOLUTIONS – “Monster Mirror”
SWEETEST FRIEND – “Moonrise Bay”
ADELITAS WAY – “The Fire Inside”
THE DOLLYROTS – “Wrapped In Sunshine”
ANNIE TAYLOR – “In Your Head”
HAWK STARLING – “Say When”
FIRE WILL REIGN – “Burn It Down”
UNIVERSAL THEORY – “The Colour of This Night I”
DONNER & THE DEVIL – “Goncro dy Hun”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #30 – (VOL. 3 – #5)
^{12 Songs – 41 min 5 sec – August 2024}

TOM MORELLOw/ ROMAN MORELLO – “Soldier In The Army of Love”
QUEEN CULT – “Hole In My Head”
REALITY SUITE – “Insane”
LORD OF THE LOST – “Blood & Glitter” Live at W:O:A
THE LUKA STATE – “Tightrope” – Live in Berlin
KAREN DIO – “Stupid”
THE BEACHES – “Takes One to Know One”
BAD MARY – “Ninja”
MONOWHALES – “Flatbread”
ANIA – “Bones”
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS – “In the Afterthoughts” – Steve Albini Mix
CALVA LOUISE – “La Corriente”

Additional Songs Added to NPNS – Part 2

ADDITIONAL ROCK SONGS ADDED TO NPNS VOL. 3 – PART 2
^{33 Songs – August 2024}
As we update and reorganize our playlists, for this playlist we go back to the beginning of the year before we created an NPNS playlist for 2024 to find songs we’ve featured that fall under the genre and category of Rock music and bring them home to the NPNS playlist. In total there was 33 songs added to the playlist, expanding and strengthening the playlist and the fact that rock never died. Below are the songs added to the playlist, which can be found on main 2024 NPNS playlist posted above.

RIVALS – “Nobody Loves Me”
SLUTTONY – “Lights”
AMERICAN WOMAN – “Out the Window”
CALVA LOUISE – “Con Corazon”
FOREVER STILL – “So I Run”
THE DOLLYROTS – “Night Owl”
ROYALE LYNN – “Six Feet Deep”
ANIA – “Misery”
ANNIE TAYLOR – “School Girl”
THE LUKA STATE – “Liar”
HONEY REVENGE – “Rerun”
MIKE SHINODA ft. DAMONA – “Already Over” (Live in Berlin)
CRAWLERS – “Kills Me To Be Kind”
THE JELLYBRICKS – “All About You”
THE BEACHES – “Grow Up Tomorrow”
MONOWHALES – “RWLYD (Really Wanna Let You Down)”
MONOWHALES – “Backbone”
PLATUNUM MOON – “We Need Therapy”
NO! DISCO – “Pier Angeli”
FRIDAY PILOTS CLUB – “Nothing or Forever”
DE LADRONES – “M.F.S.”
DURRY – “Who’s Laughing Now”
DURRY – “I’m Fine (No Really)”
DURRY – “TKO”
HONEY REVENGE – “Airhead”
LEMON’S – “I Just Wanna Know”
ISTA – “Do What Feels Right”
EMILY WOLFE – “Kill the Love”
MISTERWIVES – “Organized Chaos”
THE BEACHES – “I Love You All the Time” (Play It Forward Campaign)
GO BETTY GO – “We Talk A Lot”
THE REFLECTORS – “All the Way Down”
BAD MARY – “Don’t Know Where the Line Is”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #31 – (VOL. 3 – #6)
^{6 Songs – 18 min 54 sec – September 2024}

LINKIN PARK – “The Emptiness Machine”
DAMONA – “NO”
THE BAND 3. – “Jessie, Where’d You Go?”
GO BETTY GO – “Party at Sea”
BURN THE JUKEBOX – “Sugarcoat”
STARCRAWLER – “I Love LA”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #32 – (VOL. 3 – #7)
^{10 Songs – 31 min 26 sec – September 30th, 2024}

TRITON – “Blessed By The Grim”
KAREN DIÓ – “3AM”
BABY METALw/ ELECTRIC CALLBOY– “RATATATA”
PYROCOOKIES – “Lava Flows”
CINNAMON BABE – “U.N.I.T.Y.”
REALITY SUITE – “Hollywood”
SLUDGE MOTHER – “When the Earth Swallows Us”
THE LINDA LINDAS – “No Obligation”
45 WEST END STREET – “City Nights”
ROYAL & THE SERPENT – “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #33 – (VOL. 3 – #8)
^{10 Songs – 29 min 5 sec – March 9th, 2025}

THE PILL – “Woman Driver”
SLOW FUNERAL w/ LILLIE DELLA PENNA – “What You Want”
KAREN DIÓ – “My World”
SLUDGE MOTHER – “No Temple”
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS – “Tiny Bikini”
CARR – “Go Fuck Myself”
FAET – “Ebb & Flood”
DAISY GRENADE – “Polly”
MARISA AND THE MOTHS – “Gaslight”
KAT VON D – “Truth In Reverse”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #34 – (VOL. 3 – #9)
^{10 Songs – 32 min 11 sec – March 16th, 2025}
ELECTRIC CALLBOY – “Elevator Operator”
CRUEL SISTER – “XOXO”
MADiSON ViOLETT – “Circling”
WHENZDAZE – “Homesick”
CRONOS DEBE MORIR – “Angela”
THE MERINGUES – “Shambles”
THE TWO TENS – “Sanctuary”
LAWNS – “The Worrier”
THE DOWNCAST – “Julia”
GOD SAVE AYESHA – “Superego”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #35 – (VOL. 3 – #10)
^{15 Songs – 48 min 35 sec – October 6th, 2025}
KAREN DIÓ – “Cut Your Hair”
PEOPLE R UGLY – “Better”
CALVA LOUISE – “Tunnel Vision”
MADiSON ViOLETT – “Counting Daggers”
AS DECEMBER FALLS – “Therapy”
BABYMETALft. BLOODYWOOD – “Kon! Kon!
MINES – “Vice of Kings”
THE SUBWAYS – “Rock & Roll Queen – Taylor’s Version”
THE LUKA STATE – “Give Me A Reason”
LAUREN ASH – “Whiplash”
TOM MORELLO – “Pretend You Remember Me”
MAPLE’S PET DINOSAUR – “Lego”
WINONA FIGHTER – “Sabotage”
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE – “Blood God”
F3INT – “All Again”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! – VOLUME 4 (2026)

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If you thought the last volume was big, wait for Volume 4! Not only are we coming back stronger, but we are kicking off 2026 with it!
**We are currently building this playlist. Be a part of it. Ask us how!

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #36 – (VOL. 4 – #1)
^{10 Songs – 33 min 44 sec –} ^{January 11th, 2026}
THE VELVETEERS – “Death Hex”
YEE LOI – “Dad’s Money”
ECCA VANDAL – “MOLLY”
PIG MILK – “Take You”
SLUDGE MOTHER – “I Don’t Want A Job”
MADiSON ViOLETT – “KILLSWITCH”
BOSSI – “Kiss Me Goodbye”
YONAKA – “Hit Me When I’m Sore”
GIRL TONES – “Leave the City”
COBURN – “Super Ugly”

NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! #37 – (VOL. 4 – #2)
^{10 Songs – 36 min 31 sec –} ^{January 17th, 2026}
DESPERATE HAUSWIVES – “The Ballad of Edie Britt”
DEVON THOMPSON – “I Love You But It Hurts Like Hell”
AS DECEMBER FALLS – “Everything Is On Fire But I’m Fire”
CALVA LOUISE – Lo Que Vale”
THE VELVETEERS – “Take It From The Top”
MAPLE’S PET DINOSAUR – “Chorus”
ROSECOLOREDWORLD – “Rock Bottom Has a Basement”
WEEKEND LOVERS – “Masks”
REALITY SUITE – “These Fears”
TOMORROW’S ANTHEM – “Wrong”

The Master Playlist!

Below is the “Master” NPNS playlist containing every rock song featured in this music series and a few from other playlist series that should have been featured on NPNS!