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Cover artists on cover artists. Cover-artist-ception.  Crown The Empire pulled some of their favorite AP issues off the walls when they visited our offices and chatted about them. See what they had to say about A.F.I., Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Slipknot in the video below:    Issues shown: #216 - A.F.I #221 - My... Read More ...

Back in January, AltPress announced the Circa Survive and Minus The Bear, co-headlining Waves Overhead tour via a Google+ Hangout between the members of the bands and managing editor Scott Heisel. Re-live the "magic," we'll  call it, via the videos below.  The W ...

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!   ...

Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche), Koji and Matty Arsenault (A Loss For Words) talk about their favorite issues of AP, featuring Alkaline Trio, Helmet and Morrissey. Bonus: Vinnie Caruana gives makeup tips. Stay tuned tomorrow for the our final Acoustic Basement Tour video ...

Brian Marquis (Therefore I Am), Geoff Rickly (United Nations, ex-Thursday) and Marc Dangora (A Loss For Words) chat about their favorite artists and issues of AP. Stay tuned all the way to the end for a dramatic Trent Reznor photo re-creation by Rickly ...

In our newest Music Saved My Life segment in partnership with non-profit Hope For The Day, Stick To Your Guns talk about their musical upbringings, how they started playing, their early favorite bands and what they learned from the music they love ...

The Acoustic Basement Tour comes to a close this weekend, but fear not! AltPress has a series of videos to keep the memories flowing. Every day this week, we will post an Acoustic Basement video shot at our offices: Off The Wall segments, acoustic performances and this kickoff video, a Stand By Your Van segment hosted by Brian Marquis ...

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 ...

Last week, The Word Alive stopped by our offices and chatted with us about their favorite AP cover artists: Underoath, Thursday, Every Time I Die and The Mars Volta. Bonus fact: Did you know that when he was 15, Tony from The Word Alive was in a band called the Kerosene Kids with Garrett Nickelsen and Pat Kirch from The Maine ...

In our third episode of Off The Wall, current "The Church Of The Wild Ones" tourmates, Andy Biersack of headliners Black Veil Brides and William Control chat about AP cover artists Alkaline Trio and Kurt Cobain and, uh... beg Matt Skiba to be their friend. Watch it ...

The Summer Set's Brian Dales talks Alternative Press, the Wake Up And Be Awesome Tour, tourmates We Are The In Crowd and Go Radio and their upcoming album. The Wake Up And Be Awesome tour kicks off February 21 in Mesa, AZ. Tickets are currently onsale. ...

In our newest video in the Hope For The Day Music Saved My Life series, Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach discusses the impact music had on his life and how it gave him (and can give you) an outlet to cope during the hard times in life ...

When Coheed And Cambria swept through New Jersey recently, Soundwaves Recording Studio caught up with them for a brief interview. Check out the video below that they provided AP and learn about Coheed's Afterman albums, their recording process, hear what advice they have for new artists and more. ...

Go behind the scenes with Black Veil Brides for a photoshoot and follow them to a screening of their Legion Of The Black 45-minute movie at The Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles on December 22 in this latest AP YouTube exclusive. The band will release Legion Of The Black via a 24-hour pay-per-view ($4 ...

We Are The In Crowd stopped by the offices to hit us with some truth about their touring home and explain how they deal with tolls, find new music and how hitching their trailer is like a video game.

Welcome to our new series, Off The Wall. Here at the AP offices, we have a few literal walls covered in our back-issues. All the bands that visits us seem to have stories about what the past cover artists or the individual issues of AP mean to them ...

The Wonder Years' Dan "Soupy" Campbell (but you can call him "Spicy" these days) gives us a tour of their rented Bandwagon RV and all of the cool knick-knacks that the band hoard within it. See how they keep cool, who lives in Soupy's bunk and why they chose to rent a Bandwagon. ...

Pentimento stopped by our office while on their fall tour with The Swellers and Diamond Youth to not only play us an acoustic version of "Circles," but also to show us their van. In our newest episode of Stand By Your Van, see the advantages of having a craftsman for a father and exactly what dwells in Pentimento's ashtray. ...

Set Your Goals headlined the A Very GK! Holiday Festival show in Oakland, CA on December 2. Watch the first of our Glamour Kills edition Two-Minute Warning videos to see what the band did before they took the stage that night.    The A Very GK! Holiday ...

Check out a video recap of the first A Very GK! Holiday Festival show, December 2 in Oakland, CA, exclusively through the AP YouTube channel. Also be sure to check out our gallery from the show and exclusive interview with This Time Next Year ...