2022 was the year streaming platforms decided discovery meant gently nudging you back to the exact same songs you already heard in 2021. Bold strategy. Meanwhile, we went in the opposite direction and actually found new music from artists who earned your attention decades ago and are still out here creating like it matters. No recycled playlists, no fake nostalgia trips, no pretending the best days are behind them. Just real musicians still writing, still recording, and still proving they have more left in the tank than most of what is getting pushed to the top of your feed.
- Never Gonna Rain 2022 – Bryan Adams
- Sexy (Where’d You Get Yours) 2021 – Kool and The Gang
- Spies – The Cathodes
- Billy Goodbye – Franz Ferdinand
- We Should Be Together 2022 – The Wedding Present
- Good Life – Barenaked Ladies
- Pretty In Pink – Billy Brown
- Good Strong Woman [feat. Darius Rucker] 2022 – Keb’ Mo’
- Roots and Wings 2021 – The Wallflowers
- Let Our Love Win 2022 – Giant
- When We Were Kings 2022 – The Temptations
- Across The Universe 2021 – Evanescence
- Not Dark Yet 2021 – Tom Jones
- Trying To Find A World That’s Been And Gone: Part 1 (Demo) 2022 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- Gone Away (2021) – Billy Talent
- End Of Me [feat. Rivers Cuomo] – Billy Talent
- Love Dies Young 2021 – Foo Fighters
- Gotta Move On [feat. H.E.R.] 2020 – Toni Braxton
- Did You Say Such A Thing [Explicit] 2022 – John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen
- Won’t Stand Down 2022 – Muse
- King Upon A London Hill – The Starjets
- Chills and Thrills (feat. Mike Campbell) 2022 – John Mayall feat. Mike Campbell
- Be a Rebel 2020 – New Order
- Cobweb / Connections 2021 – Paul Weller
- Best Of Me (Originals) 2021 – Alicia Keys
- The Last Great Rock Star – Chris Pope and The Chords UK
- When I’m Gone – Alesso and Katy Perry
- Forever 2022 – Stereophonics
- Excited Ones – Guided By Voices
- Genius Bar 2021 – Mike Shinoda
- Surviving The Game – Skillet
- Work to Do 2018 – Average White Band
- Cut Me Some Slack 2022 – Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear
- I’ve Had Enough I’m Out – The Boo Radleys
- Transient Whales – Toad The Wet Sprocket
- West Coast – OneRepublic
- Burning Heart – Dashboard Confessional
- Picture 2022 – Eddie Vedder and Elton John
- BulletProofAngel (Acoustic) 2021 – The Goo Goo Dolls
- Damsel In Distress 2020 – Rufus Wainwright
- Rising Seas 2021 – Midnight Oil
- Greed – Ann Wilson
- Walker 2022 – Animal Collective
- The Beginning 2020 – Soul Asylum
- Goodbye Town 2022 – Aaron Lewis
- Endless Summer 2022 – Superchunk
- Woman of Flesh and Blood – The Fixx
- Love It When You Hate Me (feat. blackbear) [Explicit] 2022 – Avril Lavigne
- I’m Hit 2021 – Neil Frost
- Dance 2021 – Night Ranger
- Your Song Saved My Life (From Sing 2) 2021 – U2
- The Hardest Cut – Spoon
- Liar – Envy of None
- Better Times Will Come (feat. Janis Ian) – Wyvern Lingo
- Made For This – Leigh Nash and Stephen Wilson Jr.
- Receiver 2022 – Johnny Marr
- Things will be fine 2022 – Metronomy
- Now And The Evermore 2022 – Colin Hay
- Act of Love 2022 – Simple Minds
- Good Morning Gorgeous 2021 – Mary J. Blige
- No Small Thing 2022 – Tears For Fears
- Big Dreams and Faded Jeans 2022 – Dolly Parton
- Fill My World (feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators) – Slash
- Black Summer 2022 – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- When I Was a Girl in Colorado – Judy Collins
- Kid Dynamite – Steve Whiteman
- Your Own Worst Enemy – John Corabi
- Carry On 2022 – The Hoodoo Gurus
- Made Up Mind 2022 – Bonnie Raitt
- A Little Bit of Love – Weezer
- Through The Mists Of Time 2020 – AC/DC
- How Can You Mend A Broken Heart [feat. Sheryl Crow] – Barry Gibb
- Her Father’s Pride – Carbon Leaf
- Light Up The Fire 2021 – Cheap Trick
- Hurting Each Other 2022 – Carla Williams feat. Cliff Richard
- Oh Well – Deep Purple
- Kick – Def Leppard
- Land of the Living 2022 – Dennis DeYoung
- Garden 2021 – Dinosaur Jr.
- If You’re a Viper – The Jim Kweskin Jug Band
- Can’t Start Over Again 2021 – Dion feat. Jeff Beck
- Since Grazed 2021 – Eleventh Dream Day
- The Boy Named If 2022 – Elvis Costello
- Holy Toledo! (from the Original Motion Picture “Mark, Mary and Some Other People”) 2021 – Green Day
- Already There 2021 – Joan Armatrading
- Shouldn’t Matter but It Does [Explicit] 2021 – John Mayer
- Lady Mine (feat. Chad Kroeger) – Josh Ramsay
- Best Of Me (feat. Dallas Smith) – Josh Ramsay
- Come Home 2021 – Matthew Sweet
- If the World Should End Today 2022 – Men Without Hats
- Breathe in Breathing Deep (Song for John) 2022 – Owen Paul
- Too Far Gone – Peter Cox
- Dear John – Blurred Vision and Mollie Marriott with Peter Frampton
- Beautiful James – Placebo
- My Old School – Skunk Baxter
- Camelot (feat. Smash Mouth) 2021 – Timmy Trumpet
- Push 2022 – Stabbing Westward
- Story Of Love 2020 – Bon Jovi
- System of the Slaves 2021 – The Sweet
- Wild Child – The Black Keys
- Really Great – The Connells
- I Can’t Remember the Dream 2021 – They Might Be Giants
- Funny Thing – Thundercat
- AM Gold 2022 – Train
- Sufferer 2022 – UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro
- Dear Future Self (Hands Up) [feat. Wyclef Jean] 2019 – Fall Out Boy
- Dancing Slow 2022 – Jewel
- Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone (Amazon Original) – The Black Crowes
- Hey Hey Rise Up (feat. Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox) – Pink Floyd
- Colour My World Blue 2022 – Phil Hendriks
- Curious || Forbesloaded.com – Franz Ferdinand
- Saved – Matt Goss
- Everyone She Knows – Kenny Chesney
- I Miss You So 2022 – Paul Carrack
- Every Night (From “American Song Contest”) 2022 – Macy Gray
- You Got The Best Of Me 2022 – Journey
- Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care) – Micky Dolenz
- That’s Where You Go – Billy Brown
- Always A Sunny Day – The Korgis & Joe Matera
- Novocaine – The Vapors
- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters
- Seasons Of Love – Lani Hall feat. Herb Alpert
- Ready – Naked Eyes
- Bring Back The Time 2022 – New Kids On The Block
- Olive Branch 2022 – Alanis Morissette
- Fearless 2021 – Hanson
- A Human Touch – Jackson Browne and Leslie Mendelson
- Sidelines (feat. Blake Mills) 2022 – Bruce Hornsby and Ezra Koenig
- Dreamtime – Daryl Hall
- Cold Steel Serenade_Radio Version – Automatics
- Purple Zone – Soft Cell Pet Shop Boys
- Happy Birthday In The Sky – Placebo
- Diamond in the Cold – 3rd Secret
- Paint This Town – Old Crow Medicine Show
- Hooray Hooray 2022 – Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder
- Each and Every One (single edit) 2022 – The Blow Monkeys
- Easy 2021 – The Doobie Brothers
- Whispers – HOOK
- Everything’s Electric 2022 – Liam Gallagher/ w Dave Grohl
- Missionary Man 2022 – Ann Wilson
- Unconditional I (Lookout Kid) – Arcade Fire
- Passport to Paradise 2022 – Barry Upton
- Errors In The History Of God [Explicit] 2022 – Biffy Clyro
- Reckless Paradise – Billy Talent
- Heroes 2020 – Bush
- Let Somebody Go 2021 – Coldplay X Selena Gomez
- Bobby and the Rat-Kings 2021 – Counting Crows
- Sunshine State 2022 – Dashboard Confessional
- Don’t Forget My Love 2022 – Diplo and Miguel
- Party Time 2022 – Donnie Vie
- Guess I’ll Go Away – Edgar Winter
- get you 2022 – Eve 6
- Funk Aspirin 2021 – Cimafunk and George Clinton
- Cruel Trick – Grant-Lee Phillips
- Unproductive Funk 2022 – Guided By Voices
- Shoshana Sleeping – Jethro Tull
- Soothe Me [feat. Sam Moore] 2022 – Jimmy Barnes
- The Getting By II [feat. Lucius] 2022 – The Killers
- Pants Is Overrated 2022 – Lyle Lovett
- One For Me 2022 – Mary Hopkin
- You Only Get To Do It Once – Mike Tramp
- TRAVIS FINAL 2022 – Neil Frost
- Godsend (Heck Mix) 2022 – Right Said Fred
- Take It Back 2022 – Ryan Adams
- Seventh Sun 2022 – Scorpions
- Refuge 2022 – Skillet
- Keep On With Falling 2022 – The Boo Radleys
- God Didn’t Make Us All The Same 2022 – Vanessa Amorosi
- Angels On Vacation 2022 – Weezer
- I Don’t Go To Funerals 2022 – Willie Nelson
- Uroborus 2022 – Alan Parsons
- BREAK MY SOUL – Beyoncé
- Made from Sunshine 2022 – Big Big Train
- Ya Gotta Go Crazy 2022 – The Bodeans
- The Liars Club – Coheed & Cambria
- Ebony Mcqueen 2022 – Dave Stewart
- Fire It Up 2022 – Def Leppard
- Welcome 2 Club XIII 2022 – Drive-By Truckers
- Cold Turkey 2022 – Enuff Z’Nuff
- Chump Change 2022 – Fastball
- Anonymous XXX 2021 – Garbage
- Take Love (feat. KT Tunstall) – Gilbert O’Sullivan
- Isolation 2022 – Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp
- Building Avalon 2022 – John Reilly
- Every Little Moment 2022 – Julian Lennon
- Queen Of The Night – Kelly Clarkson
- Slow / Love to Love You Baby (From the Infinite Disco Livestream) 2022 – Kylie Minogue
- Kicked Off The Plane 2022 – Lit
- Standing in the Light of Love 2022 – Neil Young and Crazy Horse
- I Ain’t Worried – OneRepublic
- Patient Number 9 2022 – Ozzy Osbourne feat. Jeff Beck
- Dreams Are Ten A Penny 2022 – Philip Wright Paper Lace
- Ransom – Pete Yorn
- All I Know So Far [Clean] – P!nk
- Forever 2022 – Sheryl Crow
- Planet Zero 2022 – Shinedown
- The Gang’s All Here – Skid Row
- Capelton Hill – Stars
- It Ain’t Over – The Black Keys
- This Song 2021 – The Stranglers
- Second Born (Acoustic) 2022 – Third Eye Blind
- Lifetime 2022 – Three Days Grace
- Heartbeat – Timothy B. Schmit
- Turn the Radio Up – Train an; Jewel
- Kamera 2022 – Wilco
- All Our Pieces 2022 – Collective Soul
- Child at Heart 2022 – Hanson
- Wild Ride Through Wonderland (single) – Automatics 2022 – Automatics
- Alive – Dishwalla
- Dreams (Remix) 2022 – Walter Egan
- Rich Man 2022 – Little Big Town
- Life Is a Marathon 2022 – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Rachel And Goliath 2022 – The Starjets
- Release 2022 – Loverboy
- California Dreamin – Color Me Badd
- Sunday Girl 2022 – Blondie
- Strikes Back 2022 – Blind Melon
- Degradation Rules 2022 – Ozzy Osbourne feat. Tony Iommi
- Eh! 2022 – 911
- Troubleman 2022 – Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express
- Skywriter 2022 – Jimmy Webb
- Something Loud 2022 – Jimmy Eat World
- Catch Me Daddy 2022 – Big Brother and The Holding Company
- Too Close 2022 – Joe Perry
- Roots, Love and Culture [Explicit] – Slimkid3 and MC Lyte
- Unconditional II (Race and Religion) 2022 – Arcade Fire feat. Peter Gabriel
- You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine 2022 – Carole King
- So in Love 2022 – Jennifer Holliday
- Grow As We Go (feat. Sara Bareilles) 2022 – Sara Bareilles w/Ben Platt
- Poison – Aaliyah
- always be you 2022 – Montaigne and David Byrne
- Atone 2021 – Jerry Cantrell
- European Son 2021 – Iggy Pop Matt Sweeney
- Rather Be – A COLORS SHOW 2022 – Brandy
- Favourite 2022 – Bananarama
- Messages 2022 – A Flock Of Seagulls
- Drink The New Wine 2022 – Bauhaus
- More Than Machines – Bush
- The One and Only (2022 Nik Kershaw Remix) – Chesney Hawkes
- XYZ – deadmau5
- Cracks in My Smile – Eleventh Dream Day
- Hold Me Closer – Elton John and Britney Spears
- Freedom 2021 – The Four Tops
- Be Willing (feat. Gino Vannelli) 2021 – Gino Vannelli Jordan Louis
- Cracker Island (feat. Thundercat) 2022 – Thundercat with Gorillaz
- On The Other Side – Jan S Robinson
- Belly Of The Beast – Joe Lynn Turner
- Como Fue (feat. Beny Moré & The Charlie Sepulveda Big Band) – Jon Secada
- Innocent [Explicit] – Justine Skye and Justin Timberlake
- Cut and Run – Lifehouse
- Love Has Found It’s Way – Maxi Priest
- I’ll Never Not Love You 2022 – Michael Bublé
- The Retaliators Theme (21 Bullets) (feat. Mötley Crüe, Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes To New) – The Retaliators, Mötley Crüe and Asking Alexandria featuring Ice Nine Kills and From Ashes to New
- Kill Or Be Killed – Muse
- Strange Days 2022 – Nazareth
- Manchild (TOKiMONSTA Remix) – Sia and Neneh Cherry
- In the Clouds – O.A.R.
- Pennsylvania Avenue – Phil Hendriks
- Pronto – Ament and Pluralone
- Can’t Stop Rockin’ – REO Speedwagon
- Let It Be The Blues – Rick Derringer
- Crazy Times – Sammy Hagar, The Circle
- The Secret In Their Eyes – T Bone Burnett and Jay Bellerose & Keefus Ciancia
- Shipwrecked – The Cathodes
- I Will Win – Twisted Sister
- I’m In 2022 – A-Ha
- Weather Alive – Beth Orton
- Love Is The Hero [feat. Freddie Mercury] 2021 – Billy Squier
- Don’t You Worry (Farruko Remix) – Black Eyed Peas, Farruko and Shakira feat. David Guetta
- American Dreamers 2022 – Blessid Union Of Souls
- City Scenes – Bob Lind
- Too Much Monkey Business – Bruce Hornsby
- Stop Crying Your Heart Out (BBC Radio 2 Allstars) – BBC Children In Need Bryan Adams
- Gonna Lose 2022 – Built To Spill
- Senses Out Of Control 2022 – Buzzcocks
- My All – Daniel Lanois
- Here to Forever – Death Cab For Cutie
- Fantastic – Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros
- awakening – LeAnn Rimes
- Cut and Run 2021 – Lifehouse
- Night Stalkers [feat. Ice T] – Megadeth and Ice T
- I’m a Man – Michelle Branch
- Wisdom 2022 – The Misfits
- The Loneliest Girl In The World – PG Roxette, Per Gessle
- In Extremis 2022 – Queensrÿche
- Follow You Home – Rhett Miller
- DEMON TIME [Explicit] – Slaughter
- So Many Summers – Brad Paisley
- Robot Riot – Stereolab
- For What It’s Worth – Stevie Nicks
- Rise to the Call – Stryper
- She Still Leads Me On 2022 – The London Suede
- The Getaway 2022 – The Afghan Whigs
- Protect and Survive (2022) [Explicit] – The Alarm
- Bonneville ’62 – The Automatics
- Give Me Mercy 2022 – The Cult
- Here Comes The Weekend – Tim Burgess
- (Hey Mama) Wild Tchoupitoulas 2022 – The Neville Brothers
- Strikes Back – Blind Melon
- Grow As We Go (feat. Sara Bareilles) – Ben Platt
- Automatic – Angels and Airwaves