Web Cover Story: Breaking The Record--How bands like the Bouncing Souls and Mae are changing the way
STORY: Emily Zemler The music industry-like the rest of the country-is in a time of great instability. Albums regularly leak prior to release and many fans, even deeply devoted fans, elect to (illegally) download their music from torrents and websites. Record labels are struggling to cope with steep falls in record sales, often dropping bands...
Web Cover Story: Worship & Tribute--Christianity Isn't The Only Religion To Embrace Punk
Story: Ryan Wasoba From the Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen” to Green Day’s “Jesus Of Suburbia” and far beyond, punk rock has always been intertwined with religion and politics. However, Christianity is far from the only religion with a presence in punk. As today’s music scene reflects an ever-expanding sociopolitical climate, bands with roots...
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Louder Than Thunder: Music picks by the Devil Wears Prada
Love THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA? Here are three bands MIKE HRANICA thinks you should love, too… CONVERGE CHECK OUT: You Fail Me (EPITAPH) “I think everyone in the world should listen to Converge because that’s my favorite band. Besides the fact that I like raw, fast and kind of sloppy music, why do I like...
Web Cover Story: What our editors can't wait for in 2010
Sure, we get our albums a little before they come out and it's not completely that odd to find yourself walking Jack Barakat to the restroom, but everyone at the AP Skyscraper is a fan of the same sorts of stuff you are. So now that we're a few days into a new year, we...
Web Cover Story: Exclusive! In online music reporting, is it better to be first or factual?
STORY: Luke O’Neil Scan the front pages of the tabloids on display at the store or take a quick stroll through the tangle of online celebrity gossip sites that have become popular, and it doesn't take long to realize that we're all apparently fascinated by the idea of other people's misfortune. Angie and Brad are...
Exclusive: The first interview with new Chiodos frontman Brandon Bolmer
Somewhere at this very moment in the vicinity of a recording studio in New Jersey, there’s a 23-year-old with the most difficult job in our scene: BRANDON BOLMER is replacing Craig Owens as the vocalist of CHIODOS. While it’s a dream opportunity to the former frontman of California screamo outfit YESTERDAYS RISING, Bolmer is faced...
Motion City Soundtrack: Producer Mark Hoppus on the making of My Dinosaur Life
Although Motion City Soundtrack tossed around several big names in consideration for production duties on their major-label debut, they settled on Blink-182’s frontman Mark Hoppus, who also produced the band’s 2005 sophomore release Commit This To Memory. “I was always fond of the idea of going back to him because I’m a fan of working...
Tom DeLonge fills us in on AVA and Blink-182
It’s a little more than a week until ANGELS & AIRWAVES release their third full-length, Love, on Sunday, Feb. 14 (for free, natch). The album will also be accompanied by a film that will see a theatrical release later this year, plus a deluxe edition of the disc for purchase. We did a quick check-in...