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You may have been noticing a lot of small record labels reissuing classic albums on vinyl from all sorts of huge bands and major labels. Curious how this is handled—or should be handled, at least? Typically, a label would contact the band first to get their blessing; afterward, they would contact the company that owns […]

Recently, an article was posted that portrayed both myself and the record label I own, No Sleep Records, in a very poor way. This was due to a miscommunication/misunderstanding from the writer as to what the piece would be about. On top of that, the article was edited poorly and contained numerous errors due to […]

Hey, AltPress readers! We are Stars in Stereo and this our new photoblog from the road. We are on tour right now with P.O.D and Flyleaf and are having an amazing time. One of our favorite parts of touring is meeting other artists who feel as lucky as we do to be living on the […]

Hatebreed and Shadows Fall just wrapped up their The Divinity Of Purpose tour. This week, Frank Novinec from Hatebreed and Jason Bittner from Shadows Fall close out their three-part tour diary. Frank Novinec – Hatebreed February 12 – Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Live This was the first time back at the renowned Freebird Live (owned […]

Hatebreed and Shadows Fall are currently on the road together for Hatebreed's The Divinity Of Purpose tour. This week, Matt Byrne from Hatebreed and Matt Bachand from Shadows Fall are checking in with AP from the road to give you a look at a metal tour from their perspective in the second of this three-part […]

Hatebreed and Shadows Fall are currently on the road together for Hatebreed's The Divinity Of Purpose tour. This week, Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed and Brian Fair from Shadows Fall are checking in with AP from the road to give you a look at a metal tour from their perspective in the first of this three-part […]

We have passed the halfway point of this tour. After some sickness making its rounds on the bus (which seems to often happen on tour), we are all finally getting back to full strength. Adam and I have struggled with some respiratory infections, which always makes for an interesting time trying to sing with mucus […]

[Photo: the Newtown Bee] I think what so many people are struggling with—besides the details of Friday’s events—is an emotional disquiet brought on by trying to understand an event that is ultimately irrational. There is nothing I could hear that would “make sense” of what happened. I think the more we try to understand it, […]

Hey everyone, The past week has been a busy one for everybody. In the last update, we were finishing the rhythm guitars in preparation for lead guitars and Buddy's singing parts. All of that has been going great. Our schedule has shifted a bit. Usually we would go into the studio and shred guitars until […]

Welcome to Killswitch Engage's tour blog, written by frontman Jesse Leach. Stay tuned for more of his updates from the road as the band tours with Acaro and Shadows Fall. After just over a week of the “Alive Or Just Breathing” tour, we are all in very good spirits. Every single show thus far has […]

November 29 – December 2 Hey everyone, Things are moving along very well at the Airport Studios.  In the past three days, Matt and I (and sometimes Shaun when we need a real Viking-ish wrist) have finished all the rhythm guitars.  Buddy has been knocking out lots of screaming in the evenings, as well.  Everything […]

November 25-28 Hi!  I hope everyone's Thanksgivings went great.  We have been on a steady schedule of tracking guitars and vocals throughout the past few days. The record is beginning to take shape, and everything is sounding super-thick.  I don't want to give too much away, but we are taking a completely new approach to […]

NOVEMBER 21-24 Hey everyone, Sorry it's taken me a while to update.  We have been really busy finishing bass at the Airport Studios and celebrating Thanksgiving.  I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving, because we sure did.  The days leading up to it were pretty relaxed.  A few of our significant others came to town […]

Hey everyone, A whole lot can happen in the span of three days.  So let’s take a journey back to November 17, 2012, which was the day that we finished the drums for the record at Red Bull Studios. We had bigger concerns on our minds all day. We had to go and celebrate my […]

[Photo: Jonathan Weiner] Welcome to the first installment of Senses Fail’s studio blog. Over the coming weeks, while the band are recording their fifth album, guitarist Zack Roach will check in here with posts to let you, AP web readers, know what's going on in the studio. Stay tuned. November 17, 2012 Hey everyone! Today […]

Everyone is focused on the close race for president. The presidency holds an enormous amount of power, so this national attention is understandable. But for many young people voting for the first time, tomorrow, your ballot will contain other crucial decisions on some of the most important issues to our human rights and welfare. For […]

For 16 years, JON FOREMAN has toured the world and sold more than five million albums with his band, SWITCHFOOT. In 2009, he picked up a different kind of writing when he began contributing columns to The Huffington Post. Just like he does in his songwriting, Foreman covers an array of topics in his columns, […]

Mortality has a cruel mistress. October 31, 2005. It’s nearly three in the morning. We are trying to navigate our way through ice and pitch-black desolation in the melancholy landscape of Wyoming. This section of Interstate 80 is treacherous, renowned and violent. She is disturbed and unrelenting, calculating and carnivorous. Her desire is to take […]

Finding a permanent practice space has always been somewhat of a hassle for the Venetia Fair. When we go into writing mode we usually practice five days a week for seven or eight hours each day, so we need to find a practice space that is available to us pretty much 100% of the time. […]

Being on the road in our situation can be very exhausting. By “our situation,” I mean barely scraping by. I'm talking about pooling money together to buy an 8-pack of hot dogs and a loaf of bread for dinner and then sleeping in the van in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's actually a very common […]