Four Year Strong: Pop Meets Pit
Story: Brendan Manley Photo: Chris Saunders When Four Year Strong vocalist/guitarist Dan O’Connor looks out at the crowd during this year’s Rockstar Taste Of Chaos tour, he expects to see plenty of unfamiliar faces, some of whom have never even heard of the up-and-coming Massachusetts melodic-punk outfit. But armed with a scorching debut album and...
Pierce The Veil: Brotherly Shove
Story: Ryan J. Downey
Photos: Melissa O’Hearn
Don’t expect to hear about any dust-ups between the two brothers in Pierce The Veil during this year’s Rockstar Taste Of Chaos. There will be no onstage bickering, no backstage arguments nor post-gig punch-ups. After all, these punk-weaned, post-screamo Warped vets have avoided the curse of brotherly...
Rise Against put together community outreach video
While on the road, Rise Against are practicing what the preach by setting up various community outreach programs, and encouraging their fans to do community service in exchange for meet and greets with them. Last fall, Rise Against volunteered with fans in a Detroit soup kitchen, and they created this video to document their experience....
AltPress Exclusive: New Saosin album cover art revealed
Former AP cover stars Saosin have their hotly anticipated sophomore album, In Search Of Solid Ground, dropping Sept. 8 on Virgin, and Alternative Press is very happy to exclusively bring to you the first look at the album’s cover art. You can check it out below (click on the cover for a bigger version), and...
Pete Wentz tweets his way to charity
To celebrate his accomplishment of having over a million followers on Twitter, Pete Wentz has teamed with charity Invisible Children to raise money to help stop the war in Uganda. You can read all the details here.
All Time Low: Self-Made Maniacs
ALL TIME LOW mean absolutely nothing to the dim bulbs who work in commercial radio or to housewives rockin’ Daughtry tour tees. But it’s all good, thanks to the AP readers who overwhelmingly voted the wisecracking pop-punks Band Of The Year. AP caught up with them on their recent victory lap of the U.S. to...
The Dead Weather debut "Treat Me Like Your Mother" video
Myspace has revealed the first video from The Dead Weather lead by Jack White of The White Stripes and Alison Mosshart of The Kills.
The video is for their first single "Treat Me Like Your Mother" and was directed by visionary filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.
The band, which also features Dean Fertita (Queens...
Bands on TV this week: 7/13-7/17
7/13 – 3OH!3 (rerun) on Jimmy Kimmel Live [ABC]
7/14 – Wilco with Feist on Late Show with David Letterman [CBS]
7/14 – Sugar Ray on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien [NBC]
7/16 – Chris Cornell (rerun) on Last Call with Carson Daly [ET]
7/17 – Metric on Late Show with David Letterman [CBS]
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Four Year Strong
Four Year Strong Explains It All [3.5/5]
The 1990s provided us with a number of triumphs: Seinfeld, the popularization of the internet and some of the most memorable, unabashedly awesome songs ever. Many of said awesome songs are collected on Explains It All, Four Year Strong’s tribute to their ’90s influences. The tracklist reads...