The Sword mix doom with psychedelia on 'High Country'
The Sword ‘High Country’ The Sword have come a long way since making their name on Guitar Hero contributions. The Texan doomsters sought to bring back the power of the riff—originality be damned—and it worked extremely well on albums like 2010’s Warp Riders. Now on their fifth record, The Sword have sacrificed some of their downtuned Sabbathian crunch for more psychedelic vibes...
Someone autotuned cows mooing and they sound like something you might hear on the radio
The internet has struck again! Some genius has gone around and filmed cows mooing, and then auto tuned the audio, (via Noisey). The results? Honestly, you could toss it over a synth loop and you’ll probably have industry executives knocking on your door within the hour. (I'm totally kidding.) Nonetheless, this is oddly enjoyable. Listen: Someone isolated...
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Foxing announce co-headlining tour
Another tour you won't want to miss this fall has been announced as The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die will team with Foxing for a co-headliner that will kick off in Tallahassee, Florida on November 2 before hitting several markets across The States, with one stop in Canada, and...
Kevin Devine shares cover of the Cure's "Lovesong" from split with Tigers Jaw
The third installment of Kevin Devine's ongoing seven-inch Devinyl Splits series will be available on September 11 through Bad Timing Records. Following the first two entries, with Matthew Caws and Meredith Graves, respectively, Devinyl Splits No. 3 sees Devine teaming up with Pennsylvania duo Tigers Jaw for a pair of the Cure covers. Read more: Tigers Jaw stream cover...
New Politics can write hits. Playing them? That’s another story
As songwriters, David Boyd and Søren Hansen are developing a hitmaking partnership. The Danish-born, American based duo – two-thirds of the band New Politics, along with New York drummer Louis Vecchio – crafted two big singles from 2013’s A Bad Girl In Harlem. And they followed up “Harlem” and “Tonight You’re Perfect” with “Everywhere I...
Our Last Night cover the Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face"—watch
Canadian crooner the Weeknd is about to release his newest album, Beauty Behind The Madness, and one of its big hits—the seemingly Michael Jackson-inspired pop jam “Can't Feel My Face”—just got covered by New Hampshire rockers Our Last Night. The band has unveiled the surprise cover with a full video in tow which you can...
Faces of Warped Tour gallery (part 2): As It Is, New Years Day, The Wonder Years, more
Photographer: Tom Stone Meet the faces of the 2015 Vans Warped Tour in the second part of this exclusive gallery with As It Is, New Years Day, The Wonder Years, Memphis May Fire, Bebe Rexha, The Amity Affliction, and many, many more. All of these stunning shots are by photographer Tom Stone.
10 Things You Didn't Know about Nick Major
You may know our APTV correspondent Nick Major from his video work for APTV, interviews and zany antics on our Snapchat account (AltPress) this past summer on Warped Tour. But do you really know Nick Major? We had Nick (and his chihuahua-pug Dracula) dish ten top-secret (okay, not really) facts for our newest episode of “10 Things...
Punk band Everything Ever robbed of over $6,000 in gear
[Photo cred: Emily Tantuccio] Everything Ever, a New York punk band with Secret Audio Club, are the most recent known victims of what appears to be happening far too often (read: at all): the destruction of vehicles and theft of musical gear and personal belongings. Over $6,000 in gear was stolen from the trio recently...