Top 10 Guitar Rock Songs: 2015 Edition

Guitar rock in 2015 solidified two already growing trends: one, female and trans voices fronting more bands, bringing with them a fresh perspective rock really needed; and two, vibe over energy. The best rock this year moved from just being gnarly sounding to making you feel gnarly feelings.

So yes, there were significantly less anthemic tunes this year …

Anybody who is familiar with Ty Segall could probably namedrop another artist to which he owes at least a fraction of his sound. (Let’s say The Stooges, for

Records like the one Beach Slang recently released are few and far between in contemporary rock. Like on their preceding EPs, here

Leading up to the release of Fidlar’s second full-length, Too, the prominent storyline has been frontman Zac Carper’s recent sobriety. As one of the brains behind

All Dogs hail from Columbus, Ohio, a city that’s really not that exciting compared to those most young musicians inhabit. That leaves room for a

Tame Impala’s Currents could, I suppose, be proclaimed as the band’s greatest departure. Lonerism and Innerspeaker were geared toward ’60s

The Most Lamentable Tragedy, the fourth proper Titus Andronicus full-length and their first-ever rock opera, is a beast of a record. Documenting frontman

The debut from White Reaper probably should slay harder than it actually does. The album art for White Reaper Does It Again looks like a snapshot from some

As the side gig of guitarist Matt Mondanile, Ducktails is likely to be inextricably linked to Real Estate for as long as time goes on—and there’s probably nothing

It’s probably fairly common to see the world as your oyster right out of high school. Perhaps you’re working your first job at a neighborhood coffee shop