After The Burial announce The Road To Metal Fest tour with Glass Cloud, The Contortionist
After The Burial, Glass Cloud and The Contortionist are set to play the 2013 New England Metal And Hardcore Festival at the Worcester Palladium in Worcester, MA on April 20. However, surrounding their appearance at the festival, the bands are also playing a string of shows with Within The Ruins and City In The Sea. Check out the...
ANNOUNCING: AP's 100 Bands You Need To Know SXSW Showcase
AP's 100 Bands You Need To Know showcase returns to SXSW this year with special guest headliners Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (who are also playing our SXSW Interactive party), Andrew W.K. (solo), What's Eating Gilbert and Crown The Empire. We will be announcing one additional special guest soon. More bands from our upcoming...
Greys - Drift EP
Greys Drift EP One of an increasing number of bands that are looking to the noise-rock pioneers of the ’90s (Unsane, Hot Snakes, Chokebore) for inspiration, Greys do right by their forebears on this, their third consecutive EP in three years. Over the course of three blistering songs, the Toronto quartet find that tantalizing middle...
Friday Fives: Garrett Nickelsen of the Maine on his favorite game-changing songs
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, THE MAINE bassist, Garrett Nickelsen shares his five life-changing songs....
Album Premiere: Swingin' Utters, 'Poorly Formed'
Last week, AltPress brought you Swingin' Utters vocalist Johnny Bonnel and guitarist/vocalist Darius Koski's track-by-track explanation of their upcoming Fat Wreck Chords release, Poorly Formed. As we promised then, we now have the album's debut stream, below. Give it a listen, and if you like what you hear, be sure to pre-order the album. Poorly...
AP YouTube: Off The Wall Episode #4: The Word Alive
Last week, The Word Alive stopped by our offices and chatted with us about their favorite AP cover artists: Underoath, Thursday, Every Time I Die and The Mars Volta. Bonus fact: Did you know that when he was 15, Tony from The Word Alive was in a band called the Kerosene Kids with Garrett Nickelsen...