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The Starting Line: Stay What You Are
Four years ago, THE STARTING LINE were on the cover of this magazine, heralded as the princes of pop-punk. Soon thereafter, they were stalled by their label and forced to sit idly by while their peers packed arenas. Now armed with their best record to date, the band are finally ready to make peace with […]
Invisible no longer: Thrice discuss their triumphant second act
Thrice will always occupy a special place in the history of AP. Not only were they on a split cover with Thursday back in 2003 (which also presciently featured a poll titled, “Is Emo Sexist?”) but alongside acts like Glassjaw and the Used, they helped ring in what the New York Times memorably referred to […]
Frontmen explain why deathcore is the best-core on the Carry The Flame Tour
Roll up your sleeves and ball up your fists: The Carry The Flame tour begins Feb. 22 in AP’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and ends exactly one month later in Tampa, with a steel-melting lineup of Emmure, Fit For A King, Fit For An Autopsy, After The Burial and Invent, Animate. To celebrate this travelling […]
QUIZ: How much emo trivia do you really know?
We at AltPress hold the emo title in high regard and fully embrace all subsects of fans who proudly stand under the genre’s umbrella without discretion, only pure, kindred acceptance. We celebrate those who have first pressings of Sunny Day Real Estate vinyl, early 2000s My Chemical Romance fanatics who enlisted in the MCRmy during […]
Travie McCoy on new music: “I almost went broke making this album”
Long before Jason Aalon Butler would achieve international renown with letlive. and FEVER 333, he was but a simple kid looking for a hero. Contenders were in no short supply, but few spoke to the everyday experiences of the young man growing up in Inglewood, California. As a teenager in 2005, however, Butler stumbled across The […]
Taking It Forward: The first post-announcement Q&A with Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara
Last week, TAKING BACK SUNDAY made heads swoon (and altpress.com crash) when they announced that original members John Nolan and Shaun Cooper were rejoining the ranks. While the band’s fanbase is certainly stoked, lead singer ADAM LAZZARA is looking forward to the future with an admittedly newfound interest that’s so infectious, he probably regrets using […]
Frank Iero opens up on ‘Parachutes’—”I felt totally emptied but so inspired by the end of it”
Editor's note: This interview was done before October 13 when a tragic traffic accident between Frank Iero And The Patience's tour van and a bus left two members of the band's crew seriously injured. Since then, the band has cancelled all remaining 2016 dates. We still felt it was important to tell Iero's story about the making of the […]
20 things you didn’t know about Alternative Press
It was 32 years ago today that Mike Shea laid out the first issue of Alternative Press on his parents’ kitchen table in Aurora, Ohio. Fueled by the rage that the Smiths were not playing Cleveland, he vowed he would start his own music magazine that covered the music he liked and not the stuff […]
Big Story: Band-Aid--Does health care reform change anything for musicians?
STORY: Luke O’Neill This past weekend, YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! drummer Devon Clifford died after sustaining a brain hemorrhage during a show in Vancouver, Canada. It’s heartbreaking, but one positive aspect of this devastating story is that Clifford–who lived in the Vancouver suburb of Abbottsford–was rushed to a local hospital by paramedics and […]
Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Spencer Smith on touring, Patrick Stump, new music and mankinis
PANIC! AT THE DISCO’s current U.S. tour got off to an auspicious start: Frontman Brendon Urie missed the first show in Salt Lake City because there was a chance he was suffering from malaria. In his place, the band recruited replacement singers, including Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn and a local band member named Ashley […]
