June 30, 2015

APTV goes to Warped Tour catering with New Years Day in "Dinnerviews" Episode #1

Once upon a time, APTV came up with this concept concisely titled “Catering Chats,” wherein APTV correspondent Nick Major eats delicious food with bands and interviews them.  That is until our first guests New Years Day came along and wrecked our whole world, making us step up our title game immensely. So welcome, folks, to...

Jack White's Oddball Masterpiece: The White Stripes' last real hurrah

2005 was the last gasp of the early-‘00s rock revival. The post-Y2K zeitgeist created a reflective musical culture that continually looked backwards to forge forwards. We’re still caught in that trap—a sea of new twists on old sounds and revivals of ’90s TV. For rock in the first half of the 2000s, looking to the...

10 Songs You Need To Hear From June 2015

Sometimes the rock world can get noisy, and we don’t just mean in decibels or fuzz. Often the signal-to-noise ratio is more noise than signal. But no worries: We read, listen to and watch everything so we can sort it for you. Here are some of our favorite new songs and videos of June 2015...

Who should win the APMA for Best Underground Band?

With the second annual AP Music Awards taking place July 22 (get your tickets now), at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, we thought we would use the weeks leading up to this epic event to give you a category-by-category breakdown of the nominees, so you can be an informed voter. Read on to learn...