Maria Sherman

My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way is more than one of the scene’s most iconic frontmen—he’s also an inspirational figure. As proof, we compiled some of Way’s most inspirational quotes. Bookmark this page for future use—because his words don’t age. “Mental illness used to be a taboo and ... Read More ...

There are a lot of ways to make an engaging music video; they are mini-films, after all, simply scored to your favorite songs. One of the ways to ensure greatness is to surprise and delight your audience with an unexpected cameo—especially if the celebrity in question is not someone you’d immediately associate with the artist, genre or even the scene at large. In the ...

Some of your favorite acts from the scene boast of brother and sister acts, and it’s probably for the best: You know they’ll stick together forever like family because, well, they are family! From emo and pop-punk legends such as Good Charlotte and My Chemical Romance to newer gen bands such as Pierce The Veil and Title Fight, siblings are all over the place. Keep that ...

Band breakups are never easy—they’re especially arduous if some or most of the dissolved act go on to make music under a new moniker. No one knows this better than Julia Pierce, the founding member of Cherri Bomb. The rest of her band went on to form Hey Violet, recent AP cover stars. It’s been ...

Ever hear of a little band called Twenty One Pilots? The genre-defying electro-pop-reggae-rap-punk-rock-all-the-other-words dynamic duo of frontman Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun? Of course you have! Listening to TOP, becoming a die-hard fan and joining the Skeleton Clique usually means you have a deep and passionate appreciation for T & J’s undying best friendship. In inter ...

Welcome to festival season! We’re currently in the midst Coachella’s second weekend and if radio pop, hip-hop and EDM aren’t really your thing, there are other places you can spend your time and money. Punk, rock and everything between flourish in some not-so-obvious festival spaces, and we’ve compiled a list of the best. Don't limit yourself t ...

On the surface, there are few similarities between punk rock and Broadway: Both share a stage, but there’s an ideological disconnect—expensive art vs. the kind you can make with three chords and a shitty guitar, reviews in The New York Times and reviews in Alternative Press. When these ...

There are no guarantees in the music industry, but the closest assumption we can make is this: If you hope to become a career-lifer, you have to be willing to evolve. No one wants to hear the same record twice and no artist wants to live in a place of redundancy ...

Philadelphia might not have the sort of scene-specific legacy of Long Island or New Jersey, but the tri-state metropolis has become an epicenter for experimental emo and progressive pop punk in the last few years. But that’s not all the city has to offer: Lately, silly Philly is being viewed as a hotbed for guitar-based underground music of all kinds. If y ...

On January 16, 2017, Sonny Moore turned 29. For those who’ve followed his career since the beginning, the man now known best as popular EDM DJ Skrillex has had a complicated relationship with aging—it was only a decade ago when he was posting sentimental MySpace blog posts about not wanting to turn 19—and it seems like he’s found a cure for his past Peter Pan complex: doing something big, somethin

On paper, it’s enough to make even the most casual Freeform viewer cringe: Fan Girl is a movie that seeks to engage the fan experience using All Time Low as a singular focal point of affection. Mad Men star Kiernan Shipka plays Telulah Farrow, the fangirl in question, as the flick follows her foray into fandom and filmmaking, her two passions. It b ...

Call them what you want: Pop-punk, boy band or the death of both (idyllically they blur the lines between the two titles in a way Fall Out Boy once did and All Time Low aspire to): 5 Seconds Of Summer are unavoidably huge, and their power comes from the loyal young women that support them ...