Mike Shea

The Ready Set simplifies a couple of their songs in this 2011 acoustic performance, part of the AP Sessions series. The band works through two of their original songs, “Young Forever” and “Love Like Woe” while their touring drummer Travis Rountree taps away at a wooden box instead of a drumset. The band even bickers […]

Have you wanted to see Save The Day live? We might not be able to help you with tickets, but we can come close with this APTV video. For a year-and-a-half starting in 2011, AP hosted a series of live performance videos we titled simply “The AP Sessions.” The goal of the series was to […]

(Above: William Beckett in between takes on the set of the video shoot for “Compromising Me”) Former The Academy Is… frontman William Beckett filmed a video for the first single, “Compromising Me,”  off his upcoming debut solo EP, Walk The Talk. The EP, which is now available through Beckett's MerchNow store in a variety of bundle […]

AltPress.com had an impromptu chance to quickly catch up with stranded I See Stars frontman Devin Oliver while he sat in a repair shop in Albany, New York today where he and the band are suffering out a broken down tour bus. So where are you and what happened to your tour bus? Is this […]

Every band goes through it. At least the ones of note. Three years ago, you were the big thing, the next thing, the "hot" thing. You were on Warped Tour playing Main Stage or maybe the Hurley Stage but it didn't matter, your band brought the crowds. Kevin told you that, too. You had a […]

I swear to God, I've been waiting forever for this day to happen. We're open for business, gang! What you're seeing here has been in the works since November.  And it's just Phase One. We are launching immediately onto the new parts and pieces to add in Phase Two. Regardless, we are going to be […]

I remember back in early 1992 when we did that cover of AP with Nirvana. Hell, I believe we were the first national magazine to have them on the cover. It was an exciting time to be in music.  Into music. We know the story by now: they broke the mold, they broke through the […]

This past Saturday was National Record Store Day across the nation. I'm sure you heard what the point was of it all; Go to your local indie record store and buy something. Anything. A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Show your financial support and help keep their doors open. Before they go the way of the: Yet, if you read […]

Who the hell are you, anyway? Are you that big of a douche-bag in everyday life? I'm just not sure where you get off saying such horrible shit about a musician that you either: a) met once for a minute after a show b) never met but your friend's friend did for a minute after […]