Trend Alert: Festive holiday sweaters pop up in bands' webstores
Prior to recent years, ugly sweaters were just that–ugly sweaters. In the last five years or so, however, they've become a back-of-the-closet essential for the eight or so ugly-sweater parties you're invited to during the holidays. Apparently, bands have started catching on to this oxymoron of a trend, and there are a number of very...
Pinhead Gunpowder vocalist/guitarist Sarah Kirsch dies
News of admired Bay Area punk musician’s death swept the internet this week. Forty-two-year-old Sarah Kirsch, born Mike Kirsh, died Dec. 5, according to a post by Maximum RocknRoll, after a long-time battle against a rare genetic disease known as Fanconi Anemia. Kirsch, who changed her name to Sarah after coming out as transgender, contributed...
Senses Fail Studio Blog #5: Expect things to get super-weird
November 29 – December 2 Hey everyone, Things are moving along very well at the Airport Studios. In the past three days, Matt and I (and sometimes Shaun when we need a real Viking-ish wrist) have finished all the rhythm guitars. Buddy has been knocking out lots of screaming in the evenings, as well. Everything...
Friday Fives: Hostage Calm’s Chris "Cmar" Martin on the greatest moshes of all time
We here at AP know you internet denizens love lists. And we know that folks in bands have other interests beyond cranking out decibels. So here’s Friday Fives, a column that solicits a list of five subjects from a number of various rockers. This week Chris “Cmar” Martin, vocalist for Hostage Calm, picks the best...
UPDATE: Cute Is What We Aim For working on new album; to support Allstar Weekend on headlining tour
UPDATE: December 7 at 1:48 p.m. EST Working Group Management have announced officially that Cute Is What We Aim For have signed with them and are, indeed, working on a new album. ORIGINAL POST: December 7 at 12:13 p.m. EST Allstar Weekend have announced that they will embark on a headlining tour through next January...
Interview: Thomas Erak on roller skating mishaps, karaoke dreams and (maybe) joining Chiodos
When news broke in November about Chiodos guitarist Jason Hale departing the band only a few months after their reunion with frontman Craig Owens and drummer Derrick Frost, it actually wasn’t that surprising. After all, in the band’s cover story in AP 290, Hale was quoted as saying, “I honestly think [continuing on] is totally...
Video Premiere: Invisible Children Presents The Summer Set, "Legendary"
During The Rockshow At The End Of The World Tour with All Time Low, The Summer Set played a series of 7 secret shows in select cities across the United States as a benefit to Invisible Children, an organization they have supported over the last few years. This video features their show in San Diego...
Song Premiere: Hartford, "I Remember"
We're excited to premiere the new single from Hartford, a pop-rock quartet hailing from Ottawa, ON. The band have toured Canada alongside Set It Off and acted as show support for Bayside, Living With Lions, Cute Is What We Aim For and other notables. Now they're primed to make their own mark with “I Remember,”...
Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance) posts Christmas song, "xmas sux"
Perhaps following the lead of My Chemical Romance bandmate Gerard Way, who posted a mysterious track on Soundcloud last night, guitarist Frank Iero has also uploaded a song. xmas sux soundcloud.com/frnkiero-1 — frnkiero (@FrankIero) December 7, 2012 Listen to “xmas sux,” a disgruntled anti-Christmas song below: