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Gabe Saporta dishes on Midtown reunion: “I don’t want to half-ass this”
In the landscape of early-2000s pop-punk, Midtown were admittedly never the most successful band–but judging by the amount of attention they’ve received since disbanding in 2005, they certainly developed quite the cult following. In some ways, it was singer/bassist Gabe Saporta’s overwhelming success with Cobra Starship that left fans doubting a Midtown reunion would even […]
You Me At Six - Cavalier Youth
You Me At Six Cavalier Youth You Me At Six probably would be the first to tell you their last album, Sinners Never Sleep, suffered from severe personality disorder. (Let’s be real: Shoehorning in mosh calls from the likes of Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes was never this band’s forte.) Instead, on Cavalier Youth, the […]
Hellogoodbye - Everything Is Debatable
Hellogoodbye Everything Is Debatable Hellogoodbye’s sophomore album, 2010’s Would It Kill You?, marked a radical kiss-off to the sounds the group built their name on—namely, the shift from at-times grating synth-pop to creaky indie pop that oozed ELO and the Kinks. Kline has again reinvented himself on Everything Is Debatable, this time in the perfect marriage […]
What Happened In Vegas: Panic! At The Disco talk Fall Out Boy, past members and their "party" album
For a band with a penchant for all things theatrical, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! seems like an apt album title. Since rising from the steamy Vegas desert in 2005, Panic! At The Disco have been any number of things: a steampunk-inspired emo outfit, a floral-clad band of neo-hippies and, after a […]
Hawthorne Heights - Zero
Hawthorne Heights Zero When we last left Hawthorne Heights, the Dayton, Ohio, quartet were two EPs deep into a three-part collection. Since then, the group have added a fifth member, guitarist Mark McMillion, and seemingly ditched the third EP in favor of their fifth-full-length. Billed as a concept album, Zero tells the story of a […]
The Mowgli's - Waiting For The Dawn
The Mowgli’s Waiting For The Dawn The debut album from the Mowgli’s (misplaced apostrophe all theirs) sounds tailor-made for warm summer days. Look no further than lead single “San Francisco,” which is a jangly ball of ’60s pop sunshine that preaches love and harmony; likewise, this neo-hippie mentality makes its way onto nearly all of […]
Anarbor - Burnout
Anarbor Burnout “I know there’s got to be more to life than smoking weed,” sings Anarbor’s Slade Echeverria on the closing track of his band’s second album, but you wouldn’t know it after listening to Burnout. Indeed, it seems Anarbor have received quite the reputation as Hopeless Records’ bad boys, and Burnout does little to […]
Like They Used To: Behind the breakup of A Rocket To The Moon
When AP spoke with A Rocket To The Moon frontman Nick Santino in February for the band’s feature in AP 298, the singer was excited about the future. After more than a year in limbo, the group’s second full-length for Fueled By Ramen, Wild & Free, was finally set for release, and Santino was looking […]
This Century - Biography Of Heartbreak
This Century Biography Of Heartbreak This Century might be on the Maine’s record label, but the Arizona quartet bear little resemblance to their Copper State brethren. Instead, these AP 100 Bands You Need To Know alumni trade in Top 40-calibrated pop, bolstered by huge electronic beats and dressed up with plenty of shine and sheen. […]