Bobby Makar

Derek Zanetti, the charismatic punk rock aficionado behind The Homeless Gospel Choir, recently visited the offices of Alternative Press and was put the spot–sharing everything from his favorite memory with longtime touring pal Frank Iero, his opinion on Donald Trump, and a stomach-curdling tale of gas station sushi gone wrong. In this APTV exclusive, Zanetti […]

Bishop Briggs recently released her first LP, the stunning Church of Scars, and she is currently playing packed rooms across the world. All of this is living out a life that she admits “seems perfect,” but she wants to make one thing explicitly clear–she still gets sad. In this APTV in-depth interview, Briggs opens up about […]

Long before the All Time Low guys were telling Maria to count them in and Neck Deep were getting through long, lonely Decembers, there was a pop punk renaissance of the early 2000s. These four chord anthems of heartache, teen angst and lip rings are relics most likely found on scratched up CD-Rs underneath the […]

Every music lover has that one good song or album that’s ruined by a shitty time or person. For Donovan Melero, the lead vocalist and drummer of the progressive post-hardcore outfit Hail The Sun, a tough breakup ruined his favorite album, which was subsequently salvaged with the help of his best friend. Hear the adorable […]

Everyone remembers their first time… Dallon Weekes and Ryan Seaman of I Don’t Know How But They Found Me reminisce their first time getting paid to play, scoring free gear and saying “I love you” and meaning it in the APTV original series “MY FIRST TIME.”  Weekes and Seaman hold nothing back–making fun of the […]

It’s almost as exciting as the Warped Tour itself: the grand exodus of demos, punks and everyone in between, packed into their parents’ SUVs or their own shitty, secondhand Hondas. Whether you pile five friends in clown-car style, or just bring a best friend/navigator (you will miss the exit), glitter-paint your windows and rejoice for […]

Tonight Alive frontwoman, Jenna McDougall, waxes romantic about the skate culture Renaissance of the late 90s and the potty-mouthed pop-punk trio that championed rebellion on the Vans Warped Tour in this edition of APTV’s Warped Perspective. Her Tonight Alive bandmates also weigh in on the artists that defined Warped and the band that made them aspire to […]

For Paul Waggoner, the guitar powerhouse of Between The Buried and Me, playing guitar hasn’t always been about arpeggio-sweeping and soloing. His journey to becoming the six-string surgeon he is now has been paved with years of metronome training, scale practice and deconstructing songs in order to extract the fundamentals of melody and what it […]

Everyone remembers their first time… Whether it’s your first emergency while on tour or the first piece of art that made an impact on your life, there are some moments in life that stay with you forever. In this APTV original series, Dance Gavin Dance reflect on the precious moments of their maiden voyages into […]