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September is finally here, and you know what that means: It’s Riot Fest season! Riot Fest has quickly become the AP staff’s favorite festival of the year, with its insane lineups full of unexpected reunions and legends rubbing shoulders with up-and-comers. All three Riot Fests—Toronto, Chicago and Denver—share some lineup overlap. No matter which one […]

Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco joined forces on the Billboard Music Awards stage to perform their collab “ME!” for the first time. Their performance was pastel-filled, much like the music video, was complete with a full marching band on stage. Read more: Billboard Music Awards 2019 winners announced—see the full […]

[Photo credit: Brantley Gutierrez, Herring & Herring] Dave Grohl's just like us! The famed Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer apparently attended a recent Metallica concert, and the Them Crooked Vultures sideman was spotted by fans getting his thrash-metal groove on in the moshpit area. It looks like Grohl is “Hardwired” to rock out! […]

It was fairly evident, once the White Stripes became a secret that neither the Detroit nor the general American underground could contain any longer, that there was something unique and special about them. Leader Jack White, manhandling a red plastic Airline guitar from the ’60s, seemed especially touched by genius. Atop “sister” (in actuality, his […]

We’re rounding up rising artists you need to know right now. This month, c*mgirl8, Kibi James, Oxymorrons, and more are the AP&R new music picks to listen to.

An acquaintance once told this writer there’s “no real punk rock in Vegas.” But if the absence of punk means artists are free to follow their bliss (without outside forces deciding it for them), it’s pretty damn cool. In other words, Vegas was the perfect place for Amarionette to happen. AltPress is premiering the band’s […]

  EXPECT IT: Mid-summer via Fueled By Ramen   To record their second album for Fueled By Ramen, the Swellers decamped to the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, to work with producer Bill Stevenson. To say that vocalist/guitarist Nick Diener is thrilled about this would be a vast understatement—after all, the Swellers are huge […]

So far this week we’ve brought you the best songs and albums of the first half of 2016. Now we’re looking ahead to the 10 records you need to keep an eye out for during the year’s remaining six months; you do not want to sleep on these LPs.   A Day To Remember – […]

We can't predict the future, but we can assure you that 2017 will bring plenty of awesome new music. We talked to some of your favorite artists, who are in various stages of the recording process, to get the scoop on what's to come next year. Everything from heavy to pop punk, we'll be spending […]