April 12, 2016

What's On My Playlist: Palisades

We love Palisades' eclectic musical style, which made us wonder: What do they listen to when they're out on the road? The range was as wide as you would expect, with nods to twenty one pilots, Drake, Linkin Park, Melanie Martinez, NSYNC, Porter Robinson, AC/DC and Tegan and Sara! Subscribe to APTV to find out...

Taste Of Tuesday: Looking back at Dashboard Confessional's first AP cover

Editor's note: In its origins, the TASTE OF CHAOS tour was frequently deemed “Winter Warped” by both fans and organizers. The 2006 road show took place in the late winter and early spring, featuring lineups populated by some of the most diverse voices in the scene, including bands like My Chemical Romance, the Used, Underoath,  Killswitch...

5 things to look out for on Record Store Day 2016

Ah, Record Store Day—the thought of it can’t help but bring a smile to the face of any analog music fanatic. It smells like crisp cardboard and shrink-wrapped plastic, it sounds like the warm static pop as the needle finds the groove and it feels like spending hard-earned money on a limited release you woke...

In The Studio with FVK: The freedom and folklore of their next era

Five months after the release of their mini-album Bruises, FVK (aka Fearless Vampire Killers) reentered the studio in mid-March to begin work on material for the next era of the band. Having dropped their qualms about pleasing the industry or literally anyone but themselves, the band feel they have recorded two songs, “Always Forgive” and “Priceless,” that are the most themselves of...

Drake & Josh secondary characters start band, 90s kids rejoice

Drake & Josh, the beloved Nickelodeon show of our childhoods, may have ended almost 10 years ago, but its legacy is still alive and kicking. Here's some proof: two of the show's classic characters, Crazy Steve (A.K.A. Jerry Trainor) and Mindy Crenshaw (A.K.A. Allison Scagliotti), have started a new band, Nice Enough People, with two more members...

10 songs to satisfy your shredding obsession

Escape The Fate – “The Aftermath (G3)” There are four songs in the “Guillotine” series by now, split between Escape The Fate and Falling In Reverse. But out of the entire catalogue, the one with the most impressive guitarwork has to be “The Aftermath (G3).”  From shredding to sweeping, there’s a full minute of solo...

The Story So Far frontman kicks fan off stage

During the Story So Far’s April 10 show at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto, Canada, frontman Parker Cannon kicked a female fan off stage. Read more: 24 awesome cases of musicians calling out security, fans and even each other onstage Around the 0.34 mark in the fan-shot video below, you can see the attendee get...

Dowsing add more hype to upcoming album with premiere of "Red Legs Kicking" (exclusive)

Dowsing have been teasing to their upcoming album Okay for a while, and they’re adding to the hype with this exclusive stream of another single, “Red Legs Kicking.” The indie-emo band almost didn’t get to create Okay, when they fell apart after their 2013 album I Don’t Even Care Anymore. But now, they’re back at...