AltPress Weekly: chloe moriondo cover, Architects, Turnstile and more
We’re very excited to reveal the first installment of AltPress Weekly, designed to give you the lowdown on the things we want you to check out. Each week, we’ll cover new releases and old songs, rising artists and your favorite stars. Along the way, we’ll highlight everything from breaking music news to bargain bin discoveries,...
Kid Congo Powers is the most outside insider in all of punk rock
Kid Congo Powers has been one of punk rock’s most valuable players since 1979. That was the moment when boho poet/Slash journalist/Blondie fan club president Jeffrey Lee Pierce handed an open-tuned electric guitar to the Ramones fan club president, who’d previously been one of the suburban teenage habitues of influential local DJ Rodney Bingenheimer’s storefront...
BIIANCO’s horror-inspired single “checkmate” focuses on trauma—watch
LA-based dream-pop singer-songwriter BIIANCO has released their new single “checkmate” today alongside a cottage-core thriller-inspired music video. The new song from the breakthrough singer talks about healing from trauma. Featuring a multi-layered beat and hauntingly enticing vocals, the artist creates a spooky yet characteristically SoCal vibe that feels like a creepy Lana Del Ray. Read...
Return to ‘Riot!’ with Paramore’s first major AltPress 2007 interview
Featured in the August 2007 issue (229), Hayley Williams made her Alternative Press cover debut ahead of Warped Tour 2007 before Paramore appeared on the cover of issue 235 as the Band Of The Year in February 2008. Following the release of their sophomore album in June 2007, ‘Riot!,’ the group were interviewed by Jonah...
AFI thrive under stylistic divergence and forge a new path on ‘Bodies’
AFI certainly know how to rouse suspense—just look back to the effective erasure of vocalist Davey Havok‘s existence prior to The Missing Man announcement… Still, when whispers of their 11th album began in 2019, nobody suspected that it would take two years to actualize. Of course, we didn’t suspect that a pandemic was in the cards...
KennyHoopla and Travis Barker shine on ‘SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE//’
Throughout his career, KennyHoopla has teamed up with many other artists in the alternative music scene, including nothing,nowhere., JUDGE and the Neighbourhood’s Jesse Rutherford. Not to mention he collabed with blink-182’s Travis Barker on his songs “estella//” and “hollywood sucks//.” But with the release of his newest project, SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE//, Kenny puts himself...
Halo Boy knew quarantine was the right time to discover his music style
Despite growing up on radio-edited pop music before being introduced to grunge, electro-industrial and the iconic drumming of blink-182’s Travis Barker, Cameron Cade, aka Halo Boy, has managed to meld his greatest influences with ease for his unique creations. Drawing from key vocal elements of pop music before adding in his own scratch-vocal flair, Halo...