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blink-182, Jimmy Eat World among full list of UMG fire losses
Following initial reports of master tapes lost in a fire at Universal Studios Hollywood, bands such as blink-182, Jimmy Eat World and many more have been included in the full list of lost music. While coverage at the time focused on the burned King Kong theme park attraction and video content, a far more extensive list […]
Scott Weiland remembered: Revisiting AP's 1998 cover story
In light of Scott Weiland's passing on Dec. 3, we're republishing our April 1998 cover story (AP 117) with the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman. Writer Wm. Ferguson traveled to California to catch up with the singer, who was positively lucid regarding his influences, vices and haters. Revisiting Weiland's unfiltered honesty and attitude […]
These 15 punk records from 1980 were complete game-changers
By 1980, U.S. major labels abandoned punk with Sid Vicious‘ corpse. The American underground reacted, hard: “Don’t want us? Fuck you, we’ll do it ourselves!” The independent record distribution and touring network kicked off in earnest, as the harder/faster/louder hardcore punk sound started revving up, initially in Los Angeles before spreading across America through the […]
Twenty One Pilots, Blink-182, Panic! At The Disco, Weezer, more receive Grammy nominations
Nominees for the 59th annual Grammy Awards have been announced, and Twenty One Pilots, Blink-182, Panic! At The Disco, Weezer, Periphery, Korn and more have all nabbed nominations. Check out the full list below. Read more: Twenty One Pilots talk new music, fans, more in our latest issue AP 342 cover stars Twenty One Pilots are nominated […]
The top 15 punk albums of 1978 that still rock today
Punk in 1978: The Sex Pistols broke up in San Francisco and were about to become an asset in a legal battle, despite “new” material being issued. The Damned also dissolved and then reassembled as the Doomed, with Captain Sensible moving to lead guitar and Motörhead’s Lemmy briefly on bass before realizing they’d fare better […]
These 5 records by Buzzcocks practically invented pop punk
June 21, 2019, Royal Albert Hall, London: What was intended as a celebration of perhaps English punk’s most universally beloved band, Buzzcocks, is now a wake. On Dec. 6, 2018, frontman Pete Shelley died of a heart attack in Estonia, where he’d been enjoying a less hectic existence than London had afforded him for 30 […]
Caleb Shomo takes Beartooth into the deep dark so you don't have to
Beartooth are sharing a music video for new track “Disease,” off their upcoming album. Watch the music video in full below. Read more: Beartooth debut unrelenting track, “Bad Listener” “It was a pretty wild process getting this video together,” says Caleb Shomo, founder of furious metalcore monolith Beartooth about the clip for the title track of his […]
AP editor seeks dirt and drama but only finds community at the APMAs
Editor-in-chief Jason Pettigrew chronicles his experience at the 2015 APMAs. (Header by Paris Visone.) If there was one prominent, recurring theme to this year’s APMAs (besides “Dude, where can I get a pair of those Macbeth Skullys?”), it would most definitely be community. By now, you've seen the clips, heard the collaborations and saw the recaps. […]
10 bands who put the Canadian punk scene on the map
Though all but forgotten by this point—save for documentary films like excellent Vancouver overview Bloodied But Unbowed and recent Teenage Head retrospective Picture My Face—Canada once boasted one of the world’s best punk scenes. The quality/quantity of Great White North pogo-rock acts, plus their music’s sheer ferocity, belied our neighbors’ more mild-mannered and civilized reputation. […]
Zeal & Ardor: “We revel in the fact that we’re weirdos — it’s our job security”
This isn’t your garage band’s origin story. The musical moniker of Swiss-American Manuel Gagneux, Zeal & Ardor, was founded as an experiment. While living in New York, as an exercise to stay creative, he asked 4chan (the wholly anonymous forums, where anything goes — including conspiracy theorists and unchecked bigotry, a “cesspool,” as Gagneux offers […]
