Jason Pettigrew

PVRIS’ fearless leader Lynn Gunn ponders genres, the best-ever fan-dad interaction and comes clean about what she really wants a do-over on. Read more: Meet twin duo Softcult and hear their brand-new track "Spit It Out" AN INSTRUMENT YOU WOULD LIKE TO OWN. The...

In our previous cover story with Frank Iero (AP 370), he talked about how the trauma of a near-death experience in Australia completely unshackled his creativity. Upon reflection, the guitarist vowed that life was too short and fear runs too long to impede whatever aesthetic decisions he had previously buried (sub)consciously...

Like most bands (at least the ones who didn’t try to kill their fans), SoCal punk institution Bad Religion didn’t play any shows this year. Until last month, when they performed four shows in front of cameras, not people. Over two days in November, the band performed four sets at esteemed L.A. venue th...

As a response to the pandemic, artists and bands have embraced streaming events as both a revenue source and a new platform for artistry. This weekend, don’t expect Greg Puciato to perform tracks from his solo album from his kitchen or in front of a digital fireplace between sips of eggnog. On F...

We hope you saved some money because Black Friday is Record Store Day’s final shopping event of 2020. If your toes don’t curl at the breadth of this month’s selections, well, do you even like music? There are plenty of great titles being reissued on the vinyl format for all of your post-Thanksgiving wonderment. Here are some...

Twiztid, the diabolical duo of horror rappers Jamie Madrox and Monoxide, are celebrating Black Friday 2020 by dropping a brand-new full-length LP, Revelashen. The album features 12 new tracks produced by longtime comrade Michael “Seven” Summers with Young Wicked and Scatteredbrains. In additio...

Dante’s Inferno, the Black Lives Matter movement, dystopic governments. Three years ago, if you would’ve told frontman Andy Biersack that the next Black Veil Brides album would be inspired by these things, he probably would’ve said, “I get it.” That’s what BVB fans ...

When APTV Director Bobby Makar asked Spencer Charnas what his favorite scary movie is, he wasn’t setting up a bloodbath. Indeed, the Ice Nine Kills singer is a die-hard enthusiast of scary movies of all kinds. Horror films, splatter reels, you name it. If i...

SoCal punk legends Descendents are known for three things. First, their mastery of what has now been termed “melodic hardcore.” Second, the quaint line drawing of their lead singer Milo Aukerman they’ve adopted as a mascot logo of sorts. Last but not lea...

For over three decades, the members of GWAR have been pushing risque humor, audience endurance and decibel meters. Their schtick of being “Antarctica’s No. 1 band” never gets old. That’s because they never focused solely on just one element. Between tasteless joke...

Over the last few decades, Richard Patrick has certainly made a name for himself. In the early ’90s, he was Trent Reznor’s guitarist/punching bag in Nine Inch Nails. Not long afterward, he resigned from NIN and started Filter, garnering both attention and hit singles. In 2020, t...

Earlier this year, Oliver Tree “retired” from the world of music. But that won’t stop the bowl-headed provocateur from rubbing his scalp all over the face of comics. Indeed, Z2 Comics has announced the first of their 2021 spring lineup today exclusively with Alternative Press with Tree’s first foray into graphic novels, Oliver Tree Vs. Little Ricky: Alien Bo... Read More ...

In real life, it is indeed true that time flies when you’re having fun. But sometimes in your head, it runs painfully slow, like medical procedures, governmental policy changes and living in a pandemic. Ever since Dallon Weekes and Ryan Seaman of I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME landed on the cover of Alternative Press in January 2019 (AP 366), we’ve been wait...hang on.....

The coronavirus pandemic has crushed live shows, movie viewings and theater performances. But Fat Mike is persevering. The NOFX/Fat Wreck Chords co-founder was planning to have his first musical, Home Street Home, produced in Los Angeles this year...

When he was a tweener, Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack would frequently accompany his father for trips to their favorite record store in the Cincinnati vicinity. On one particular visit, the elder Biersack asked his son to make a choice as to which records he wanted. He h...

Most of us know Jason Aalon Butler as the lead singer of the massively strident trio FEVER 333. But only a select few are able to see him in full-on dad mode. Every morning, the singer/entrepreneur/activist is up taking care of his two sons, aged 3 years and 6 months...

There’s a good chance that Maynard James Keenan would prefer to be a country gentleman farmer than a brooding rock vocalist. As the owner of the Caduceus Cellars winery, the frontman is busy tending to his children, his vines and his farm. Glue...

Mikey Way is tired, but only in the best way possible. His infant daughter has a sleeping cycle of her own, and he’s been the doting father taking care of her. It’s the best kind of tired, showing love to your children. The My Chemical Romance bassist and Electric Century co-founder will be paying that forward further this Saturday. He’ll be h...

Call it luck, commitment or having their own pew in the high Church Of Rock ’N’ Roll. Toronto rock dudes the Dirty Nil are making things happen in all the best ways. They finished their impending album, Fuck Art, during lockdown, having lived together for five years, thereby creating their own bubble to write and rehearse. Out of tha...

Frank Zummo’s storied career behind the drums has taken him places he never expected. He’s created regimented percussion ensembles, played with bona fide rock stars and currently keeps the machine moving in Sum 41. But it was the encouragement of twenty one pilots’ Josh Dun that gave him the momentum to make the step toward making his own music. How many drum...