Rachel Lux

Contributions

First(ish) Listen: Neon Trees

So, you know how there's those bands that you keep hearing you should listen to, but for whatever reason, they just never seem to work their way out of the stack on your desk and into your player? Yeah, I've missed the "early boat" on quite a few really good bands because of that, so […]

First(ish) Listen: Sleigh Bells

So you know how some things that shouldn’t go together totally do? Like chocolate and bacon. And ice cream and bacon. And, well, pretty much everything goes with bacon. But peanut butter and jelly is too obvious. Anyway, a music version of this phenomenon is most definitely Sleigh Bells. Take one part ex-teeny-bopper girl group […]

First(ish) Listen: Wavves

  So, I have the bad (according to some people) habit of getting so into an album, it's the only thing I'll listen to, over and over, until one day I inexplicably switch to something else. I've been like that my whole life. Not gonna apologize for it, but figured I could turn it into […]

Blog No. 1 (again)

It’s 2010, and I just received an e-mail with this subject line: New Release from Papa Roach. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Rap-rock bands from my high school years coming back to haunt me not withstanding, 2010’s been a year of a lot of change—a big one being the brand, […]

Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

Only Revolutions Though Biffy Clyro have been tearing up the U.K. charts for several years, their presence has been a slow burn in the U.S. Puzzles, their 2007 breakthrough chronicling frontman Simon Neil's struggle with his mother's death, should've been the album that worked U.S. rock fans into a tizzy, but for reasons mostly unexplainable, it […]

Tom DeLonge fills us in on AVA and Blink-182

It’s a little more than a week until ANGELS & AIRWAVES release their third full-length, Love, on Sunday, Feb. 14 (for free, natch). The album will also be accompanied by a film that will see a theatrical release later this year, plus a deluxe edition of the disc for purchase. We did a quick check-in […]

The Rocket Summer: Tooting Our Own Horn

We became fast friends with Bryce Avary & Co. when the Rocket Summer co-headlined the second annual AP Tour in 2008. Guess the feeling’s mutual, since on his new album, Of Men And Angels, there are two indirect shout-outs to our magazine. We’ll let Avary explain… During the 2008 AP Tour, each night, Bryce Avary […]

Wilco- Wilco (The Album)

Wilco (The Album) Wilco continue to reign in their experimental fuzz, focusing more on pretty melodies (“Country Disappeared”), upbeat toe-tappers (“You Never Know”) and sweet acoustic numbers (“Solitaire”) for their seventh full-length. A notable exception is the driving “Bull Black Nova,” which could’ve been an outtake from 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, replete with Nels […]

Altpress Exclusive: A conversation with Fred Mascherino of the Color Fred

It’s difficult to believe that it’s been almost two years since FRED MASCHERINO revealed that he would no longer play guitar or lend vocals to Taking Back Sunday-the band he played a large role in since 2003. Only a few weeks after the announcement, Mascherino’s solo project, THE COLOR FRED, unveiled Bend To Break, an […]
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