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 – 7/05/26
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. We just wrapped up Volume 3 – music featured in 2024 & 2025. As well, 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.
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.
SELECT YOUR NPNS VOLUME
Some selections are not available as of yet, but they will be soon. Thank you for your patience
EXPLORE THE VOLUMES – (Current Volume is #4)
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
The Complete Collection!
Below is the “Complete Collection” of the 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! It spans from the begging in 2015, to present day.
