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As we come to the end of 2021, we're also concluding Alternative Press’ end-of-the-year celebration. We asked each artist we interviewed for our December 2021 issue to answer two specific questions: What was the best thing you heard in 2021, and who should we look out for in 2022? This...

Alternative Press is back again with our end-of-the-year celebration. Hopefully you know the drill already, but if you haven’t heard, we asked each artist we interviewed for our December 2021 issue to answer two specific questions: what was the best thing you heard in 2021, and who should we look out for in 2022? This...

Are the winter blues getting you down? Don’t worry, Alternative Press’ end-of-the-year celebration is here to bring you some holiday cheer. If you haven’t heard already, we asked each artist we interviewed for our December 2021 issue of AltPress magazine to answer two specific questions: what was the best thing you heard in 2021, and who should we look out for in 2022? We’ve compiled t... Read Mor

Hello and welcome to Alternative Press’ end-of-the-year celebration! We know that for a lot of people, 2021 has been less than ideal, to say the least. That’s why we wanted to bring you a little holiday cheer  — with the help of some of our favorite artists.  We asked each art...

Lorde has shared a brand-new video for her song “Leader of a New Regime.” The track appears on her third studio album, Solar Power, which was released in August. Lorde announced the brand-new visual in a newsletter to fans on the date of this year’s winter solstice. Read more: Glas... Read More ...

After Doctor Strange’s role in the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, details of the Marvel character's next moves are becoming clearer. The highly anticipated Spider-Man: No Way Home earned $260 million domestically after its release last weekend, according to a box office report from Sony. The film ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced shortlists for 10 Academy Award categories. Shortlist voting for this year's Oscar nominations ended Dec. 15 and voting on the resulting nominees will begin Jan. 27 and end Feb...

Four hundred issues after the very first book to carry our name ran off the printers back in 1985, we look back on 36 years of our favorite-ever AP covers, the stories they told and the secrets behind their creation. You can pick up an issue here, starring twenty one pilots...

Controlled chaos is a mentality that Kid Bookie brings to his day-to-day life just as much as his metal-laced hip-hop. At the beginning of the interview, Kid Bookie politely asks if he can light up a spliff after breaking a tooth onstage a few days prior...

Frank Carter and Dean Richardson of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes are launching a new NFT project with “eco-friendly” NFT company Serenade. The first NFT, titled Vita Brevis, is a skull digitally created by the pair. Read more: Woman-led NFT gallery Vellum LA is transforming how we experience art “Life is short, this NFT will last longer,” the duo say about the NFT. “A single skull, doomed t

Harry Potter is celebrating its 20th anniversary next month with a new special. In still more exciting news, Warner Brothers has suggested that they would like to release more Harry Potter content. In a recent Bloomberg conference, the company’s CEO Ann Sarnoff spoke about the franchise and hinted about what could happen in the future. Acco...

Hyperpop has always been a genre that is DIY and willing to push musical boundaries. That independence began with its rise in popularity in the mid-2010s and continues into the present. It's also the reason hyperpop has been able to fluidly blend with a wide range of styles, helping artists make music that is ever more unique and reflective of their individuality...

Emma Ruth Rundle’s fifth solo album sees her confront and pick at the bones of her darkest memories, searching for closure. Fragile, vulnerable and raw, it’s her most emotional and conceptually heavy album yet. Read more: twenty one pilots discuss their roots, their fans and 'Scaled And Icy' Stripped back Rundle has established herself as a master of texture and tone, creating sounds that build an

Turnstile made their late-night television debut last night on Late Night With Seth Meyers. The band performed two tracks from their latest album GLOW ON. “Making their late-night debut,” Seth Meyers says in his introduction, “Performing “MYSTERY” and “T.L.C.” off their acclaimed album GLO...

The Simpsons is the inspiration for a new music venue called "Shotkickers." The new space is set to debut at the start of the new year in Australia. Read more: Here’s how you can help music venues that are financially struggling Musicians Christopher Windley and Mathias Northway made the decision to revamp the Melbourne venue and change the name to Shotkickers, a reference to the televis

With the rise of antiheroes in shows such as Disney+’s Loki and Dexter: New Blood, audiences now have a wide variety of characters to cheer for. According to a new Variety interview with Tom Hiddleston and Michael C. Hall, their characters are not completely evil after all. T...

EKKSTACY has shared a new video for his single “i walk this earth all by myself.” The track, which opens up his EP NEGATIVE that dropped in November, is a fan favorite that has garnered more than 13 million streams on Spotify since its release. Read more...

Sam Fender has joined forces with Holly Humberstone for an acoustic version of his hit track “Seventeen Going Under.” The song, which is the title track of Fender’s sophomore album, was originally released earlier this year. Read more: 14 m... Read More ...

Unquestionably, metalcore and its associated subgenres have traditionally been masculine. Even in the way we describe the music, with “brutal” screams and “savage” breakdowns, the metal lexicon occasionally can make it challenging for someone with an alternative gender identity. While we’ve seen a gra...

A new clip of Machine Gun Kelly playing a Wild West bank robber in the upcoming action movie The Last Son is out. The David Von Ancken-directed film hits theaters and on-demand via Redbox Dec. 10. Read more: Machine Gun kelly announces new custom Schecter signature guitar The Last Son follows 19-century outlaw Isaac Lemay (Sam Worthington) as he attempts to hunt down family members to prevent a pr