100 bands you need to know

100 Bands You Needed To Know in 2001: Where Are They Now? AP 297 marked our 13th annual "100 Bands You Need To Know" special, where we profile a hundred of our favorite up-and-coming acts from all walks of musical life. Many of our 100 Bands selections have gone onto fame, fortune and forgetting about AP entirely—and that's okay! We don't ...

In our latest YouTube exclusive, get a behind-the-scenes look at Crown The Empire's Alternative Press cover shoot with photographer Douglas Sonders. AP #297, the 100 Bands You Need To Know in 2013, featuring Crown The Empire and The Story So Far is on sale now!   ...

All last week, we brought you inside our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know special with our "the science behind the special" series. In this final part, we've put it all together and added information about the end result in our massive conclusion! Ch ...

Count Your Lucky Stars Records are offering fans a free download of Annabel's entire discography in honor of the band being nominated for AP's "100 Bands You Need To Know." Fans can also choose to pay their own price for the discography which is available on the label's official Bandcamp. The offer ...

All this week, we are breaking down our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know special by the number. When choosing artists to feature, we inevitably noticed patterns and trends, some of which surfaced in artist names. So, what's in a name? Om ...

AP 297 cover artists The Story So Far will release their upcoming album, What You Don't See, on March 26 via Pure Noise Records. They've already debuted the album's lead single "Right Here," and AltPress has another exclusive glimpse at the album with it's seventh track, "The Glass," below. Listen, let us know what ...

Annually, Alternative Press unleashes the monster that is the "100 Bands You Need To Know " special, highlighting artists we think are on-the-rise and will take off in the coming year or that we simply enjoy and think you need to hear. And, when you think about it (or even glance at it), you know that 100 is a massive number ...

"Every person was filmed individually and in one take, so what you see is actual what you are hearing," said Driver Friendly of this live clip. "It's almost like a hybrid of a studio and live recording."  Other fun facts about this video shoot: It was recorded on a Sunday morning and the location where it was shot hosted a wedding immediately after, It bummed out the neighbor

Crown The Empire are on the cover of our 2013 "100 Bands You Need To Know" issue along with The Story So Far. When the band stopped by the office last week, they shot this little segment in our kitchen, announcing their AP cover debut! Check it out below and pre-order the issue now ...

Such Gold recently performed three new songs live in Louisville, Kentucky. Check out the videos below. The band's debut full-length is due out this spring via Razor & Tie.

Young Statues and Grieves & Budo have replaced Tonight Alive and We Are The Ocean on AP's upcoming 100 Bands You Need To Know Party at SXSW. The show is still slated for Saturday, Mar. 17 at Red 7 in Austin, Texas, as stated on the flyer above, and will feature the Used, the Early November, Breathe Carolina and a slew of others. ...

Such Gold has posted a stream of their new song "Storyteller" at their blog. The song, which will appear on the band's upcoming Razor & Tie debut, is available for free download (along with 28 others) as part of AP's 100 Bands You Need To Know mixtape. You can do ...

In conjunction with our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know issue (Buy your copy here!), we've launched a free mixtape download over at our Facebook page with music from Breathe Carolina, We Came As Romans, AWOLNATION, Bad Rabbits, Sleeping With Sirens and 23 others featured in this year's issue. You ...

Counterparts (Victory Records) just posted a video in which they talk about their inclusion in AP's upcoming 100 Bands You Need To Know Issue that hits newsstands this weekend. Check it out below. Can't get to a newsstand? Order a copy of the new issue here! ...