Jonah Bayer

The first time you ever heard the Academy Is... was probably when they were opening for your favorite band, but rest assured, their rise to fame has been anything but calculated.  In the course of an hour-long interview with AP, William Beckett will be interrupted three times. Fir...

Thrice To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere If you ever had any doubt there would ever be another Thrice album, you weren’t alone. n our recent interview with the band's drummer Riley Breckenridge, he even expressed doubt that the band would return from a four-year hiatus let alone write their ninth full-length. Yet here ...

Thrice will always occupy a special place in the history of AP. Not only were they on a split cover with Thursday back in 2003 (which also presciently featured a poll titled, "Is Emo Sexist?") but alongside acts like Glassjaw and the Used, they helped ring in what the New York Times memorably referred to as "The Summer Of Screamo," which ushered in a new era for the magazine, a

Maybe you've heard of the Jazz June, maybe you haven't. The group formed in 1996 at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and during that time, they released a handful of albums on Initial Records that had some attributes in common with their peers in the emo scene, while maintaining an off-kilter sensibility that was wholly unique. The ba ...

Astronautalis This Is Our Science Astronautalis may not have the controversy that surrounds Eminem or the swagger of Jay-Z, but for the better part of a decade, he has consistently crafted some of the smartest hip-hop music in the underground—and his fourth album, This Is Our Science, proves the MC is equally as adept at improvisational freestyles as he is at crafting hooks that will stay lodged

Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder The words "Sum 41" and “maturity” might seem mutually exclusive, especially considering the rather rudimentary regression of 2007's all-too-forgettable Underclass Hero. However, the band’s fifth full-length, Screaming Bloody Murder, sees the the Sums entering into adulthood—unfortunately, that process also includes all of the inevitable missteps of adoles

My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys It should come as no surprise that My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has spent much of the past three years working on his graphic novel series The Umbrella Academy... Read More ...

Three Mile Pilot The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten may seem like an unwieldy album title, but it makes sense when you consider that it’s Three Mile Pilot’s first release in 13 years. If you’re ...

The God Complex If you're a fan of the late-'90s Trustkill Records roster, which included Harvest and Endeavor, then you'll love the supercharged sound of the upstate New York act Another Breath. However, if you think those bands sound dated today, then you'll probably think the same thing about The God Complex--an album that has more in common with Harvest's Living With A God Complex than merel

Fact Fact Fact may be from Japan, but you wouldn't know it by listening to the band's North American debut. The band sound like they come from an imaginary country where it's acceptable to mix everything from pop-punk to screamo into a mélange of music containing no unifying themes. Oh, and did we me ...

The Night Is Ours There's a point on Youth Group's third full-length when vocalist Toby Martin sings, "I understand that the root of pain is beauty." That line is an apt description of the ideology behind The Night Is Ours. (There's also a line ...

The Tropic Rot For the past decade, experimental metalcore pioneers Poison The Well have crafted some of the underground's most sonically adventurous albums only to get continually leapfrogged by their opening acts. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the band's fifth full-length, The Tropic Rot, is another dose of next-level hardcore that sees the band exploring everything from blazing, Dick D

Wrecktrospective Over the past two decades, Fat Wreck Chords has gone from being the pet project of NOFX frontman Fat Mike to one of the most influential punk labels of all-time--and correspondingly, a collection like Wrecktrospective is long overdue. Essentia ...

American Central Dust If you're a sucker for consistency, then Jay Farrar should be your favorite songwriter. Predictably, Son Volt's sixth album, American Central Dust, is teeming with twangy ballads, like "Dust Of Daylight," that prominently feature Farrar's instantly recognizable pipes. While his former Uncle Tu ...

Curse Your Branches It's been three years since David Bazan released his debut solo EP, Fewer Moving Parts, and even longer since he stopped playing under the name Pedro The Lion. However, those of you still paying attention should know that Bazan is crafting the best music of his career. Curse ... Read More ...

Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute To Swingin' Utters While they've never gotten the same notoriety as their peers such as Green Day or Bad Religion, for over two decades the California punk institution Swingin' Utters have been churning out amazing songs that defy categorization. Theref ...

STORY: Jonah Bayer On Jan. 27, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs officially revealed the iPad, a new device that would straddle the middle ground between laptops and smartphones. Some think it will revolutionize our entire approach to information the same way laptops and Apple’s iPod did, while others see it as an overgrown iPod Touch that doesn’t live up to the hype bestowed upon it by Apple fanboys. N

John Frusciante The Empyrean We hate to disappoint Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, but if the band’s hiatus yields more recordings from John Frusciante, we think it’s for the greater good. Despite his prolific solo output, Frusciante’s 10th solo album may also be his most satisfying. While The Empyre... Read More ...

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold While Avenged Sevenfold’s look and sound have evolved drastically over the past decade, the one constant in the band’s career has been their ability to polarize people-and the band’s self-titled disc is inevitably going to make that division more pronounced. The confrontatio ...

The Starting Line Direction Despite that he smokes more weed than B-Real and inexplicably sang “I’m gonna tear your ass up like we just got married” on the single from his band’s 2005 album Based On A True Story, Starting Line bassist/vocalist Kenny Vasoli may be the most underrated songwriter in the punk genre. Sure, he doesn’t have ...