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Ranking Romance: 10 Essential Rock Couples

Rock ’n’ roll has given us its fair share of musician couples throughout the years, from John and Yoko to Kurt and Courtney to, uh, Chad and Avril. (They’re not all winners, folks.) We’re counting down 10 of our favorite pairings from AP’s scene, past and present (we’re saving “future” for our secret slashfic Tumblr—don’t tell our boss).

This article originally ran in AP 296.

10. TRAVIE McCOY (GYM CLASS HEROES) & KATY PERRY
Before she was a arena-filling pop megastar (read: 2007), Katy Perry was just another struggling musician, getting love and support from Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy. The pair seemed head over heels for each other—McCoy even bought her a promise ring—and they made it through the 2008 Warped Tour together, but their relationship eventually flared out later that year (before starting up again briefly in mid-2009). At least we’ll always have the “Cupid’s Chokehold” music video…

9. ANDY BIERSACK (BLACK VEIL BRIDES) & JULIET SIMMS (AUTOMATIC LOVELETTER)
These two rockers make wildly different music and have totally different styles, which is probably why their relationship works so well.

8. ANDREW W.K. & CHERIE LILY
The party-rock king found his queen in Cherie Lily, a fitness instructor-turned-dance-musician. Watching the two of them flail around onstage together to anthems like “She Is Beautiful” and “Party Hard” will warm anyone’s heart.

 

7. SHANE MORAN (TITLE FIGHT) & BRIANNA COLLINS (TIGERS JAW)
We’re not trying to blow up this quiet couple’s spot or anything, but we’re just stoked that these two very talented musicians were connecting with each other. Brianna’s voice is a treasure, and we bet Shane could pen some heart-meltingly gorgeous music for her words that could still get people to stage dive.

6. BEAU BOKAN (BLESSTHEFALL) & LIGHTS
At first listen, these two couldn’t be farther away on the musical spectrum—but don’t forget that she started off in a noisy punk band called ShovelFace (“My First Band,” AP 275), and contributed guest vocals to a Bring Me The Horizon album. They’re coming up on their two-year anniversary this May, and we wish them the best!

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5. RIAN DAWSON (ALL TIME LOW) & CASSADEE POPE 
We’re assuming you already read their interview in AP 296, but c’mon—any couple who plan out surprise visits with as much creativity as these two definitely deserves a spot on this list.
Rian Dawson and Cassadee Pop, AP Lovers Rock

 

4. MAX BEMIS (SAY ANYTHING) & SHERRI DuPREE-BEMIS (EISLEY)
We’re honestly not sure if there is a married couple in rock ’n’ roll who are more in love with each other than these two. If you need any proof, just give Perma’s Two Of A Crime a spin.
Perma

Brody Dalle and Tim Armstrong3. TIM ARMSTRONG (RANCID) & BRODY DALLE (THE DISTILLERS)
This couple was the closest the punk scene ever got to a modern day Sid and Nancy. Both graced AP’s cover on separate occasions with skyline-scraping Mohawks in tow, and they both fronted kickass bands that inspired thousands of teens on both sides of the gender divide to pick up a guitar. We’re sad they divorced in 2003, but at least we got a rad Rancid record (Indestructible) as well as a killer new band (Dalle’s Spinnerette) out of it.

2. GERARD WAY (MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE) & LYN-Z WAY (MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE)
Married since 2007 (they got hitched at the end of that year’s Projekt Revolution tour, which both bands were on), Gerard and Lyn-Z are one of the happiest married couples we’ve ever encountered at AP. Plus they named their kid Bandit. Bandit. That beats the shit out of Blue Ivy or North West any day.

1. CHAD GILBERT (NEW FOUND GLORY) & HAYLEY WILLIAMS (PARAMORE)
Like there was any doubt who would be No. 1. Chad and Hayley’s relationship has been a blast for all of us onlookers to follow as it developed, and not that we’re trying to put any pressure on the happy couple or anything, but we bet a wedding involving the two of them would be the raddest nuptials ever.
Chad Gilbert and Hayley Williams