In our review over the past year, this is our pick of the best Rock, Indie and Alternative videos we featured here in 2021.

Many of these are also featured in our big End of Year YouTube playlist.

Videos

• The Academic 'Kids (Don't End Up Like Me)' by TEARJERKER
• alt-J 'U&ME' by Prosper Unger-Hamilton
• Arab Strap 'Fable Of The Urban Fox' by Rose Hendry
• Audiobooks 'Lalala It's The Good Life' by Rottingdean Bazaar & Annie Collinge
• Baby Dave 'Clarence's Dead Dad' by Kris R
• Bad Bad Not Good 'Signal From The Noise' by Duncan Loudon
• BadBadNotGood 'Beside April' by Camille Summers-Valli
• Bazarian 'Can We Pretend?' by Arshile Egoyan
• Beabadoobee 'Last Day On Earth' by Arnaud Bresson
• Billie Marten 'Liquid Love' by Joe Wheatley
• Black Midi 'Slow' by Gustaf Holtenäs
• Black Midi 'John L' by Nina McNeely
• Cavetown 'Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me' by Lewis Cater
• Dead Nature 'Watch Me Break Apart' by Dreamjob
• El Columpio Asesino 'Sirenas De Mediodía' by Amar Hernández
• Feng Suave 'Half-Moon Bag' by Leonardo Cosme
• Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes ft Lynks 'Go Get A Tattoo' by Thomas Davis
• Fontaines D.C. 'A Hero's Death' (Live) by Samuel Taylor
• Glass Animals 'Space Ghost Coast' by Max Siedentopf
• Hak Baker 'Cool Kids' by Will Robson-Scott
• Hayden Thorpe 'The Universe Is Always Right' by Tom Haines
• The Horrors 'Lout' by Jordan Hemingway
• IDLES ‘Beachland Ballroom’ (Parts 1 &2) by LOOSE
• Iron Maiden 'The Writing On The Wall' by Nicos Livesey
• Iron Maiden 'Stratego' by Gustaf Holtenäs
• James Blake 'Say What You Will' by Bear Damon
• Joey Maxwell 'Too Much' by Amitybloc
• John Grant 'Boy From Michigan' by Casey & Ewan
• London Grammar 'America' by Dave Bullivant
• MarthaGunn 'Holding The Fire' by Jack Lilley
• Memorial 'A Hero's Death' by Jake Dypka
• Metronomy 'It's Good To Be Back' by Dreamjob
• Middle Kids 'R U 4 ME?' by W.A.M. Bleakley
• Olafur Arnalds 'Zero' by Joshua Stocker
• The Parrots ft C Tangana 'Maldito' by Rogelio
• Radiohead 'If You Say The Word' by Kasper Häggström
• Radiohead 'Follow Me Around' by Us
• Rikas 'Stereo' by Aladin Mekanović
• Sam Fender 'Seventeen Going Under' by Brock Neal Roberts
• Sam Fender 'Spit Of You' by Philip Barantini
• Sansara 'We Will Become Better' by Andzej Gavriss
• Sega Bodega 'Only Seeing God When I Come' by Constantine // Spence
• Self Esteem 'Prioritise Pleasure' by Rebecca Lucy Taylor
• Shame 'Nigel Hitter' by Maxim Kelly
• Steven Wilson 'Personal Shopper' by Lucrecia Taormina
• Squid 'Pamphlets' by Raman Djafari
• Tiberius b 'Big Deal' by Saskia Dixie
• Tom Jones 'Talking Reality Television Blues' by BWTV
• TV Priest 'Press Gang' by Joe Wheatley
• Wassailer 'Song For Elsa' by David Bertram
• Wet Leg 'Chaise Longue' by Wet Leg
• Wet Leg 'Too Late Now' by Fred Rowson
• Wolf Alice 'Blue Weekend' by Jordan Hemingway
• Yard Act 'The Overload' by James Slater
• Yard Act 'Payday' by James Slater