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Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!
The Chicago pop-punk quartet of Mest have their new album, Photographs, coming out this Tuesday, Oct. 18, Maverick. To get your attention, the band have posted a whopping four tracks–“Photographs,” “Cursed,” “As His Black Heart Dies (My Mistake)” and “Can’t Take This”–over at
their MySpace page. Give ‘em a listen, then leave us a comment […]
A Static Lullaby bassist involved in car accident; in intensive care
Phil Pirrone, bassist/vocalist for A Static Lullaby, was involved in a car accident late Wednesday night, Oct. 12, driving home from his parents‘ house. Details are sketchy at this point, but ASL‘s publicist has told AP that Pirrone is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at his local hospital, but his doctors have said he‘s […]
ALL? No, the Mag Seven!
End Sounds band the Mag Seven have added two new members. The all-instrumental group, already containing Mike Griffin (ex-Tsunami Bomb), Doni Blair (Hagfish/Armstrong/Only Crime), and Scott Brayfield (ex-Slowride), have added both Zach Blair (Hagfish, GWAR, Armstrong, Only Crime) and legendary drummer Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents, All, Only Crime) to their fold. To sweeten the […]
If it ain‘t Broken...
Broken Spindles, the side project of The Faint‘s Joel Peterson, are heading out on their first-ever full-band tour starting tonight. The band are in tour of inside/absent, their new full-length on Saddle Creek. Dates are below. Montana, what!
Fri-Oct-14 Billings MT Venture Theatre
Sat-Oct-15 Missoula, MT The Other Side
Mon-Oct-17 Olympia, WA Yes Yes […]
The Invisible video
Thrice have released the much-anticipated video for “Image Of The Invisible,” the first single from their upcoming album Vheissu. The video was directed by Jay Martin (Burning Brides, Eagles Of Death Metal) and was co-written by Thrice guitarist Teppei Teranishi and My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way. You can view it via the MySpace Media Player […]
Welcome to the new AltPress.com!
Hello, and welcome to the brand spankin‘ new AltPress.com! We‘ve been slaving over a hot oven (or a lot of cold soy chais; whatever) for literally months on end trying to make this site perfect for all of you, and we hope you enjoy it. Take a look around! Register an account, and you‘ll be […]
Dropping Determination
Former AP cover stars Story Of The Year released their sophomore effort, In The Wake Of Determination, this past Tuesday, Oct. 11; but if you‘ve yet to pick it up, you‘re in luck: The band are appearing on Fuse‘s 7th Avenue Drop all this week, playing songs both old and new live in-studio, so you […]
It‘s better than bad, it‘s good
Swedish slowcore group Logh recently released their third full-length (and first for new label Hydra Head), A Sunset Panorama, on Sept. 27, but it may have slipped beneath a number of your radars; thus, the band have launched a media player for the album at ASunsetPanorama.com. Not only can you stream the entire record at […]
NOFX: The State Of Punk To Come
When all of their colleagues were doing press and getting their fair share
of MTV and radio play, punk-rock icons NOFX hunkered down, refusing to do interviews,
promo opportunities and any other activities that might launch them into the rat
race of mainstream culture. In this, their first
interview in seven years, […]