Lee Mckinstry

The 60th annual Grammy Awards nominations were announced today, with Nothing More earning three nominations in the rock categories and Avenged Sevenfold earning its first Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song for “The Stage.” And in the past, Grammy nominees boasted a few scene favorites such as twenty one pilots and the Killers, but music’s biggest night sometimes feels like it doesn’t reflect thi

MIKE FARR has served as a sober living coach on Warped Tour for the past six summers, working on the tour as a representative of the foundation MusiCares. It’s an organization that helped him get his own addictions under control years ago, and now Farr is a trusted ally to those struggling with similar problems in the music industry. This ...

On his LinkedIn profile, EDDY BURGOS describes his job as “Punisher Control.” The jokey vibe is demonstrative of the friendly charm known to bands, tour managers and fans who know him better as Eddy Numbskull, punk promoter for over 25 years. His compan ...

ASH COSTELLO is a woman who won’t stay quiet. Since bursting onto the scene as the vocalist of NEW YEARS DAY in 2005, the goth-rock screamer has lent her voice to powerful takedowns—both on and off the recording reels. Costello took to her Tumblr after tours with Blood On The Dance Floor in 2011 and 2012 to speak out about the disrespect she felt she experienced, and the sexually inappropriate beh

Sleeping With Sirens had some tough competition for Song Of The Year at the 2015 APMAs, but at the end of the night, the boys walked away with a Skully for “Kick Me.” We sat down with drummer Gabe Barham and guitarist Jack Fowler right after accepting their award to talk about their friendly competitors, WWE, and careers in daycare. Interview... Read More ...

Rob Zombie went home from the APMAs with one of the highest honors of the night: the Vanguard Award. We sat him down right after he accepted the Skully to talk about being an innovator, his upcoming projects and where fans fit into his creative process ...

Hayley Williams of Paramore stopped by the APMAs to join New Found Glory on “Vicious Love,” but also managed to pick up a Skully for Best Vocalist while she was there. We sat down with her to talk about finally meeting Lynn Gunn of PVRIS, the end of the self-titled era, and true love. Interview... Read More ...

Beyond the performances, presentations and the occasional resurrected beef, there were many other moments that our cameras didn’t catch at the Alternative Press Music Awards. Here are a selected few. Top photo by Paris Visone Chris Motionless’ big ticket item If you follow this purveyor of goth chic on Twitter, you might have caught this one— Chris Motionless threw down $7000 for a new Tom Ford su

Hayley Williams of Paramore takes home the first skully of the night for Best Vocalist presented by AXS TV!    Williams graciously accept the award from Ben Barlow (Neck Deep), Juliet Simms and Cody Carson (Set It Off), citing her passion for singing.   "I l...

Sum 41 perform a medley of their hits with original guitarist Dave "Brown Sound" Baksh, then bring out DMC for covers of Run-DMC's "Mary Mary" and "King Of Rock."  Subscribe to AltPress on YouTube to keep up with all our APMAs coverage and rewatch the show!  ...

Issues accept the award for Artist Of The Year presented by Monster Energy at the 2015 Journeys AP Music Awards. Vocalists Tyler Carter and Michael Bohn thank AP, their fans (the Hooligans) and their bandmates who are currently recording in Portland. In ...

Is it too early to start waxing nostalgic about the second annual Alternative Press Music Awards? Meh, we’ll do it anyway. Last night, the scene’s finest gathered to recognize the year’s highest musical achievements at the only award show that boasts as much skull merchandise as it does formal wear. Here are some of ...

Because we know sometimes nothing goes better with with beats than a blazer, or with shredding than a little sartorial flair. Or maybe a costume is more your style (we see you MGK). They may be down and dirty rock stars, but they sure clean up nice ...

Photo by Graham Fielder Today, there is a magazine cover on display at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, an early mock-up of the APMAs issue starring All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat. The cover shot is lined with editorial notes, yellow Post-its and red ink. Behi ...

With the second annual AP Music Awards taking place July 22 (get your tickets now), at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, we thought we would use the weeks leading up to this epic event to give you a category-by-category breakdown of the nominees, so you can be an informed voter ...

In anticipation of Warped Tour’s very first Comedy Tent, we checked in with one of its organizers, Joe Sib. Sib, best known as the founder of SideOne Dummy Records and the former lead vocalist for Wax, launched the Tent this summer with the help of co-hosts Grant Cotter and Eli Olsberg, drawing on the same DIY ethos that helped make punk shows so successful in his youth. Here ...

While we don’t make a habit of tooting our own horn, anniversaries are a time for reflection, and on this page we’re highlighting the cover stars we featured before the rest of the world caught on. Whether it was their first-ever magazine cover, or the first time they got the front page stateside—these artists represent some of the times we were driving the bandwagon. Their sounds buo ... Read Mor

Ringo and Green Day and Fall Out Boy and Miley Cyrus and Joan Jett and sexual innuendos and tears and copious F-bombs! Holy HBO sponsorship deal, Batman! The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony hit Cleveland  April 18, and AP was there. This wr ...

BRIAN BELL (middle left) and NATE SHAW (middle right) are not your typical dream team. Bell, the long-locked guitar mystic of Weezer fame, first met Shaw as a teenager, where the latter promptly introduced him to West Coast punk and the raw ethos of “the church of rock ‘n’ roll.” Shaw is best known for his ten ...

Every year since 2001, AltPress has made it our mission to introduce you to 100 up-and-coming bands, and looking back, we got it right at least a couple times. We recently scoured our back-issues for some of the artists who have since made the most impact ...