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(Photo Credit: Peter Place) Today is the day that Albany, New York's Restless Streets release Together, their new EP. It's available in a bevy of bundles on MerchNOW and other fine digital retailers. AltPress are backing Together, their first new music since leaving InVogue Records, with an exclusive premiere of their music video for "Twin Flame." “This son ...

Photo Credit: Britton Orange Emarosa have premiered a music video for "Sure," taken from their most recent album, 131, released on Hopeless Records. The rural treatment was shot in the gorgeous Texas Hill Country located outside Austin during their last headliner ...

Sylar have premiered a music video for "Soul Addiction," taken from their most recent album, HELP!, which was produced by Erik Ron and released on Hopeless Records. The video was directed by Josiah Van Dien and partially filmed in Tokyo, Japan ...

Announced today for epic punk festival It’s Not Dead 2, Canada's The Flatliners are streaming another track from Inviting Light, their new album out April 7, 2017 via Rise Records. It follows their two-song tideover Nerves, released on seven-inch vinyl last year on Canada's own Dine Alone Records, who are co-releasing the new LP with Rise. Inviting Light was produce ...

Can't Swim Fail You Again FILE UNDER: Post-hardcore of Jersey past ROCKS LIKE: Thursday, Armor For Sleep, Engine Down WHAT'S DIFFERENT: A rousing “Hey, Hey, Hey!” straight from the punk playbook is one of Can't Swim's new looks (“What's Your Big Idea”). Likewise, the pop-pimping “We Won't Sl ...

Metalcore greats Norma Jean have teamed with AP to share their music video for "1,000,000 Watts," which served as our introduction to 2016's Polar Similar. It also marked their return to Solid State Records since last releasing 2008's the Anti Mother. Filled with ominous s ...

Tallahassee, Florida's Stages & Stereos have resurfaced with two new singles, "Remember You" and "Co-Dependent (Good Enough)." Both are available on Spotify and iTunes. We feared the pop-rockers were goners after 2013's Small Town Favorites and 2014's AP 100 Bands You Need To Know feature, but that is no longer the case. Even more music is ...

Emmure Look At Yourself FILE UNDER: Born Again Deathcore ROCKS LIKE: The Acacia Strain, Glass Cloud, Knocked Loose WHAT'S DIFFERENT: Somehow, Emmure's polarizing, windbreaker-clad frontman Frankie Palmeri isn't shot on album seven. His pure p ...

Boca Raton, Florida’s Northbound have released a new music video for "Fade To Black," directed by Let It Happen's Sean Highley. The single is culled from the Flaws In Everything, their new EP due out April 21 on Animal Style Records. Watch it belo ...

Toronto, Ontario's refined punk rockers The Flatliners will release their sixth full-length album (and first for Rise Records), Inviting Light, on April 7, 2017. It follows their two-song tideover Nerves, released on vinyl last year via Canada's own Dine Alone Records. “Inviting Light ...

Deaf Havana All These Countless Nights FILE UNDER: U.K. Alt-Rock ROCKS LIKE: Thirty Seconds To Mars, Lower Than Atlantis, Foo Fighters WHAT'S DIFFERENT: Forget folksy and festive for the fourth album: Deaf Havana are writing anthems meant to crowd rock clubs—authentic songs that hurt before celebrating the highs. This is their most attractive off ...

Los Angeles, California's Low Speech are the latest export from the Cottage, the studio ran by Saosin guitarist Beau Burchell. Produced, mixed and mastered by Burchell over the summer, the band's debut is a five-song serving dubbed the Only Constant. There's yea ...

United Kingdom rock representatives Lower Than Atlantis have rolled out a fierce new single by the name of "Had Enough." After a loud and twisted intro riff, frontman Mike Duce drops some self-awareness on us: "I hate everyone that I meet/But I'm getting better/Think before I speak/'Cause I know I got a temper."  This tra ...

We introduced Long Island, New York's Afterparty on AltPress earlier this year. Now, the distinctly downstate emo-rock group featuring past and present members of Stray From The Path and This Is Hell are back with another music video. Exclusively premiering below, “One.Five.Thre ...

UPDATE: Thursday, November 17 at 4:53 p.m. EST In addition to their spring headlining tour, Senses Fail announced that they will be releasing a new acoustic EP, In Your Absence, March 3 via Pure Noise Records. Pre-orders will be announced soon, but you can stream “Lost and Found” here. Track Lis... Read More ...

Photo Credit: Ashley Osborn Earlier this month, Man Overboard vocalist/guitarist Zac Eisenstein exclusively debuted his new project Bright Green with AltPress. While the pop-punks went on hiatus early this year—full interview on that here—Eisenstein has chosen to put his focus on this new project. He's setting things ...

Hopesfall have reunited and signed to Graphic Nature Records, an imprint of Equal Vision Records founded by producer Will Putney. The ever-evolving melodic hardcore group dissolved shortly after their cosmic post-hardcore pinnacle, 2007's Magnetic North. When they en ...

Orlando, Florida's Makari are exclusively streaming their gleaming new EP, Elegies, starting today on AltPress. With new vocalist Spencer Pearson in tow, formerly of Decoder and VersaEmerge, the band have found their best chemistry yet. Think the post-hardcore intensity of Circa Survive and Emarosa meeting the darker alt-pop properties of PVRIS. Ou ...

AltPress can exclusively introduce throwback pop-punk outfit Dizzy Pleasure Club—DPC for short. Coming out of the Baltimore/Washington D.C. scene with players from Turnstile, Angel Du$t, In Between and more, the band recall an early '00s punk attitude of imperfect recordings and tight harmonies in two minute packages. Head down to ...

Photo Credit: Ashley Osborn Zac Eisenstein, best known as vocalist/guitarist of pop-punks Man Overboard, is exclusively debuting his new project Bright Green with AltPress. While the band went on hiatus early this year—full interview on that here—Eisenstein has chosen to put his focus on this new project. He's setting th ...