Emery
Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail EP [4/5]
Emery’s castigation of standard spiritual themes and transparent post-rock noodling have taken on many forms since their inception. It isn’t until this latest release, While Broken Hearts Prevail, that they appear to have balanced the weight of both responsibilities in an ostensibly seamless fashion. The album erupts with...
Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On
Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On Eagles Of Death Metal are Sweet Tarts in the tank of a high-octane rock ’n’ roll machine. Their lip-puckering guitar squalls and gravelly rhythms will make the most devout headbangers lower their horns and succumb to an undeniable urge to strut their stuff. Heart On is on par with...
The Maine premiere "Girls Do What They Want" video
AP Tour co-headliners the Maine posted their new video for "Girls Do What They Want," from their 2008 full-length, Can't Stop Won't Stop. The band wrote in their MySpace blog: "he entire video was filmed while we were on tour so maybe you'll see yourself in some of the shots! We had a ton of...
Altpress Exclusive: Win a guitar autographed by Sum 41
Stoked that the pop-punks in Sum 41 decided to turn the EP they were planning to make into a full-length follow-up to 2007’s Underclass Hero? Then imagine how stoked you’d be with a guitar autographed by the band. All you’ve gotta do is enter here!
An Albatross
An Albatross The An Albatross Family Album [4/5]
They’re the spring-loaded snakes leaping out of a gag can of unsalted nuts. An Albatross inhabit a madly mutating hall of mirrors splicing hardcore, jazz and garage rock into a carnival ride through spastic noise-addled synapses on the verge of exploding like something in a Die Hard...
Alkaline Trio / Saves The Day tour announced
Alkaline Trio and Saves The Day have announced a tour together. The once Vagrant labelmates will be traversing the east coast with a few scattered Midwest dates. Alkaline Trio released Agony & Irony on Epic last year. Saves The Day released Under The Boards in 2007. April 18, 2009 @ First Avenue Minneapolis, MN April...
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Festival Thyme EP [3.5/5]
Few bands have fallen out of favor with critics harder than Trail Of Dead. Their 2002 breakthrough Source Tags & Codes received lavish praise (a perfect 10.0 from online tastemakers Pitchfork), but a pair of harshly criticized albums followed. The Festival...
Tat
Tat Soho Lights [4/5]
The definition of “tat” is “rubbish or trash.” While it’s completely unfair to refer to London trio Tat as rubbish, they are trashy in the rock ’n’ roll sense, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The band have a supremely talented singer/guitarist (not to mention future punk-rock poster girl)...
Smartbomb
Smartbomb Diamond Heist [3/5]
Smartbomb’s members have done time in No Trigger and Shock Nagasaki, and you can hear their influence in Smartbomb’s melodic hardcore/punk sound (specifically No Trigger). However, Diamond Heist is more a decent slab of less melodic, purely raw speed that rocks a little bit more like old Descendents records, the Unseen’s...