2000s Alternative Essentials

Apple Music 2000s

Rediscover the decade's chart-toppers, classics, and lost favorites. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.
The White Stripes
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
Elephant
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
Hot Fuss
The Strokes
Last Nite
The Strokes
Is This It
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Maps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell (Deluxe Remastered)
Green Day
American Idiot
Green Day
American Idiot (Deluxe Edition)
Weezer
Island In the Sun
Weezer
Weezer (Green Album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dani California
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium
Jimmy Eat World
The Middle
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American
Foo Fighters
All My Life
Foo Fighters
One By One (Deluxe Edition)
Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf
Coldplay
Clocks
Coldplay
A Rush of Blood to the Head
My Chemical Romance
Helena (So Long & Goodnight)
My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand
Hits to the Head
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
Arcade Fire
Funeral
Snow Patrol
Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol
Eyes Open (Bonus Track Version)
The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize??
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Nine Inch Nails
The Hand That Feeds
Nine Inch Nails
With Teeth
Modest Mouse
Float On
Modest Mouse
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
MGMT
Electric Feel
MGMT
Oracular Spectacular
The Hives
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives
Veni Vidi Vicious
Thursday
War All the Time
Thursday
War All the Time
Metric
Help I'm Alive
Metric
Fantasies
At the Drive-In
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
Rilo Kiley
Silver Lining
Rilo Kiley
Under the Blacklight
Paramore
Misery Business
Paramore
Riot!
Vampire Weekend
A-Punk
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
Fall Out Boy
Sugar, We're Goin Down
Fall Out Boy
From Under the Cork Tree (Tour Edition)
Bright Eyes
First Day of My Life
Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Arctic Monkeys
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bloc Party
Banquet
Bloc Party
Silent Alarm
The Killers
When You Were Young
The Killers
Sam's Town
Arcade Fire
Rebellion (Lies)
Arcade Fire
Funeral
Scissor Sisters
Take Your Mama
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
TV on the Radio
Staring at the Sun
TV on the Radio
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Kings of Leon
Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon
Only by the Night
blink-182
The Rock Show
blink-182
Take off Your Pants and Jacket
Gorillaz
Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
Cut Copy
Hearts on Fire
Cut Copy
Hearts on Fire
Beck
Lost Cause
Beck
Sea Change
Death Cab for Cutie
Crooked Teeth
Death Cab for Cutie
Plans
Dashboard Confessional
Hands Down
Dashboard Confessional
A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Brand New
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
Brand New
Deja Entendu
Panic! At the Disco
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Panic! At the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
The Strokes
12:51
The Strokes
Room On Fire
Regina Spektor
Fidelity
Regina Spektor
Begin to Hope (Bonus Track Version)
Jimmy Eat World
Sweetness
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American (Deluxe Edition)
The White Stripes
Fell In Love With a Girl
The White Stripes
Fell in Love With a Girl - Single
Green Day
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day
American Idiot
My Chemical Romance
Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade / Living with Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition)
TV on the Radio
Wolf Like Me
TV on the Radio
Return To Cookie Mountain
Interpol
Pda
Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights
The Killers
Somebody Told Me
The Killers
Hot Fuss
Interpol
Evil
Interpol
Antics
Pearl Jam
World Wide Suicide
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Franz Ferdinand
Do You Want To
Franz Ferdinand
Hits to the Head
Coldplay
Yellow
Coldplay
Parachutes
Radiohead
Optimistic
Radiohead
Kid A
Fall Out Boy
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
Fall Out Boy
Infinity On High (Deluxe Edition)
Thursday
Understanding In A Car Crash
Thursday
Full Collapse
Muse
Supermassive Black Hole
Muse
Black Holes and Revelations
Modest Mouse
Ocean Breathes Salty
Modest Mouse
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Queens of the Stone Age
Go With The Flow
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf
Kings of Leon
Use Somebody
Kings of Leon
Only by the Night
Foo Fighters
Best of You
Foo Fighters
In Your Honor
Weezer
Keep Fishin'
Weezer
Maladroit
Arctic Monkeys
Fluorescent Adolescent
Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Beck
E-Pro
Beck
Guero
Bloc Party
I Still Remember
Bloc Party
A Weekend in the City
The White Stripes
Icky Thump
The White Stripes
Icky Thump
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American (Deluxe Edition)
My Chemical Romance
Teenagers
My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade / Living with Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zero
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!
Radiohead
Idioteque
Radiohead
Kid A
The Strokes
The Modern Age
The Strokes
Is This It
The Darkness
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
The Darkness
Permission to Land
Green Day
Holiday
Green Day
American Idiot
The Killers
All These Things That I've Done
The Killers
Hot Fuss
MGMT
Time to Pretend
MGMT
Oracular Spectacular
Against Me!
Thrash Unreal
Against Me!
New Wave
Muse
Time Is Running Out
Muse
Absolution
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Coldplay
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Modest Mouse
Dashboard
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Foo Fighters
The Pretender
Foo Fighters
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
blink-182
I Miss You
blink-182
Blink-182 (Bonus Track Version)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't Stop
Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the Way
The Raconteurs
Steady, As She Goes
The Raconteurs
Broken Boy Soldiers
Brand New
Jesus Christ
Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (UK Version)
My Chemical Romance
I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Radiohead
Knives Out
Radiohead
Amnesiac
The Hives
Walk Idiot Walk
The Hives
Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Strokes
Someday
The Strokes
Is This It
Vampire Weekend
Oxford Comma
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
Death Cab for Cutie
Soul Meets Body
Death Cab for Cutie
Plans
Snow Patrol
Run (Revised)
Snow Patrol
Final Straw
Pearl Jam
Just Breathe
Pearl Jam
Backspacer
Yellowcard
Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard
Ocean Avenue
Thursday
Signals Over the Air
Thursday
War All the Time
Death from Above 1979
Romantic Rights
Death from Above 1979
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Klaxons
Golden Skans
Klaxons
Myths of the Near Future
The White Stripes
We're Going to Be Friends
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells (Deluxe)
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