NPNS – Volume 3
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!
This is VOLUME 3, featuring music in this playlist series released during 2024 thru 2025.
We are now into 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.
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.
NPNS – VOLUME 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! Below is the complete Playlist Volume.
No Paper. No Scissors. – On Instagram!
This playlist series now has it’s own presence on Instagram at @nopaper.noscissors . If this is your preferred playlist series, give us a follow and we’ll dive deeper into the rock music we feature, which we don’t normally cover on the main IG account.
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
PAST NPNS VOLUMES TO EXPLORE AND DISCOVER
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST! – VOL. 3 (2024 – 2025)
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #26
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #27
12 Songs / 39m 01 s
Released March 2024
12 Songs / 37m 38s
Released May 2024
Featured Music By…
SOLENCE
NEW YEARS DAY
CINNAMON BABE
KAREN DIÓ
DANCE GAVIN DANCE
BABY METAL ft. TOM MORELLO
LORD OF THE LOST
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE
THROW THE FIGHT
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS
COUNTER
CALVA LOUISE
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
Featured Music By…
BAD MARY
KAREN DIÓ
KOV ZELONKY
BAD NERVES
SAINT AGNES
F.HERO / BODYSLAM / BABYMETAL
DRAGONFORCE
EXIT EDEN
QUEEN CULT
DESPERATE HAUSEWIVES
CHARLOTTE SANDS
REALITY SUITE
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
NPNS #26 ON SPOTIFY
NPNS #27 ON SPOTIFY
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #28
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #29
12 Songs / 38m 08s
Released June 2024
12 Songs / 50m 05s
Released June 2024
Featured Music By…
MARISA AND THE MOTHS
BLUE HOUSE
LOUNGE LIZARDS
COLLEEN WILD AND THE HAUNTED
HOT WAX
RUMKICKS
NO! DISCO
HONEY REVENGE
YONAKA
QUEEN CULT
CRUEL SISTER
FAET
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
Featured Music By…
SWEET SPINE
MARSEILLE
A NEW NOWHERE
RESOLUTIONS
SWEETEST FRIEND
ADELITAS WAY
THE DOLLYROTS
ANNIE TAYLOR
HAWK STARLING
FIRE WILL REIGN
UNIVERSAL THEORY
DONNER & THE DEVIL
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
NPNS #28 ON SPOTIFY
NPNS #29 ON SPOTIFY
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #30
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #31
12 Songs / 41m 04s
Released August 2024
6 Songs / 18m 54s
Released September 2024
Featured Music By…
TOM MORELLO ft. ROMAN MORELLO
QUEEN CULT
REALITY SUITE
LORD OF THE LOST
THE LUKA STATE
KAREN DIO
THE BEACHES
BAD MARY
MONOWHALES
ANIA
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS
CALVA LOUISE
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
Featured Music By…
LINKIN PARK
DAMONA
THE BAND 3.
GO BETTY GO
BURN THE JUKEBOX
STARCRAWLER
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
NPNS #30 ON SPOTIFY
NPNS #31 ON SPOTIFY
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #32
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #33
10 Songs / 31m 26s
Released September 30th, 2024
10 Songs / 29m 05s
Released March 9th, 2025
Featured Music By…
TRITON
KAREN DIÓ
BABY METAL ft. ELECTRIC CALLBOY
PYROCOOKIES
CINNAMON BABE
REALITY SUITE
SLUDGE MOTHER
THE LINDA LINDAS
45 WEST END STREET
ROYAL & THE SERPENT
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
Featured Music By…
THE PILL
SLOW FUNERAL ft. LILLIE DELLA PENNA
KAREN DIÓ
SLUDGE MOTHER
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
CARR
FAET
DAISY GRENADE
MARISA AND THE MOTHS
KAT VON D
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
NPNS #32 ON SPOTIFY
NPNS #33 ON SPOTIFY
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #34
NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. #35
10 Songs / 32m 11s
Released March 16th, 2025
15 Songs / 48m 35s
Released October 6th, 2025
Featured Music By…
ELECTRIC CALLBOY
CRUEL SISTER
MADiSON ViOLETT
WHENZDAZE
CRONOS DEBE MORIR
THE MERINGUES
THE TWO TENS
LAWNS
THE DOWNCAST
GOD SAVE AYESHA
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
Featured Music By…
KAREN DIÓ
PEOPLE R UGLY
CALVA LOUISE
MADiSON ViOLETT
AS DECEMBER FALLS
BABYMETAL ft. BLOODYWOOD
MINES
THE SUBWAYS
THE LUKA STATE
LAUREN ASH
TOM MORELLO
MAPLE’S PET DINOSAUR
WINONA FIGHTER
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE
F3INT
(links are to band’s Instagram pages)
NPNS #34 ON SPOTIFY
NPNS #35 ON SPOTIFY
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”
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”
The Complete NPNS Collection.
Below is the Complete Collection of the NPNS playlist catalog containing every rock song featured in this music series and a few from other playlist series that should have been featured on NPNS! The playlist spans from the beginning in 2015 to present day.
