Why you should always protect your ears at shows
Roughly five minutes. That’s the amount of time it takes for live music to permanently damage unexposed ears at a show. Five minutes. That’s one to two songs. And you don’t have to be at a rock show—exposing ears to any sound at a volume of 100 decibels—or a unit used to measure the degree […]
How Sudan Archives reclaimed the concept of prom with Natural Brown Prom Queen
Sudan Archives doesn’t do basic. On her sophomore album Natural Brown Prom Queen, she conjures a rebellious parallel version of herself.
Turnover frontman Austin Getz rediscovers own identity on 'Altogether'
Turnover recently released their latest full-length record—the stunning and shimmery Altogether, an album that feels dreary and disco in equal measure. The record sets Turnover’s bold new direction of atmospheric emo jazz-pop into motion. It‘s a captivating yet logical evolution from their previous work. Altogether is the culmination of frontman/guitarist Austin Getz’s move from Virginia […]
Credited for booking MCR's first NYC show, Heath Miller tells us how he made it in the industry
Heath Miller has been at the game a long time: He's a 20-year veteran of the music industry, and he was the person to book My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy’s first NYC shows, as well as manage many bands that have now become scene staples. He spoke with AP about getting his start […]
From DEVO to Le Tigre and more, these artists defined synth-punk
One of punk rock’s original goals was “the destruction of rock ‘n’ roll.” While that didn’t happen, most early punk musicians were rock fans, in spite of their espoused rhetoric. Hence why most early pogo soundtracks were basically Chuck Berry with a Marshall amp. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But this is hardly […]
Arctic Monkeys aren’t done evolving
The Car defies expectations of what an Arctic Monkeys record can sound like. In AP’s digital cover story, frontman Alex Turner breaks down their cinematic seventh album.
These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead
1997: All media is declaring the alternative–rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was over in their eyes, too. That selfsame media could not have been more wrong. Green Day had just issued their fifth album, Nimrod. The Offspring, the band who made the catchphrase […]
Avril Lavigne: “Music takes over your whole life; I had to dedicate my entire life to my music”
In an undisclosed location, at a warehouse in Los Angeles, Avril Lavigne and Rico Nasty meet for the first time. One is a giant of her genre, the godmother of modern pop punk; the other, a pioneer of misfit rap, whose idiosyncratic flows and personas (the trap Tacobella and nü-metal/rap Trap Lavigne) have inspired a […]
God Is Dead: An Essay By William Control
I posted a few days ago on one of my social networking sites that If it says “Christian” under your religion information tab, then don’t bother adding me. This set off a huge debate on both sides of the coin about what kind of statement that was, what my intentions actually were and whether I […]
