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Avril Lavigne has released her highly anticipated seventh studio album Luv Sux. The album is her first on Travis Barker‘s DTA Records. The twelve-song album features artists like Machine Gun Kelly, blackbear and blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus. Listen to Love Sux below. Read more: Are the 2000s back? How Avril Lavigne, Chris Carrabba are uniting Gen […]

Firefly festival have announced their 2022 lineup. The headliners include Halsey, My Chemical Romance, Green Day and Dua Lipa. Read more: So What?! festival adds 100 Gecs, Hawthorne Heights, more to lineup Other musicians set to perform at Firefly festival include 100 gecs, All Time Low, Avril Lavigne, chloe moriondo, GAYLE, Princess Nokia, spill tab, […]

While it feels like the meteoric renewal of pop punk happened all at once, the subgenre had slowly been edging its way back into mainstream appeal since the days of mid-2010s emo rap. Rather than a general revamp of punk music, the years since Lil Peep’s passing instead saw the resurgence of a specific era […]

After destroying the internet with hype and nostalgia, When We Were Young festival has already sold out. Live Nation has added a second date to the touted festival, Oct. 23, due to high demand. Read more: Artists and fans react to When We Were Young festival’s epic announcement The When We Were Young festival will […]

Avril Lavigne has joined blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus on After School Radio via Apple Music. During the conversation, Lavigne discussed Love Sux, working with Hoppus, signing to Travis Barker‘s label, adapting “Sk8er Boi” into a feature film and more. Read more: Avril Lavigne drops “Love It When You Hate Me” ahead of next album ‘Love Sux’ Speaking on […]

Emo kids rejoice! Your dreams are coming true in 2022. Live Nation has just announced the “When We Were Young” festival, featuring some of the most iconic emo and rock acts of the past two decades. Read more: Slipknot announce Knotfest Roadshow 2022 with In This Moment, Jinjer and more The When We Were Young […]

Avril Lavigne has dropped “Love It When You Hate Me” featuring blackbear. The track is the second single from her upcoming album Love Sux, following November’s “Bite Me.” Read more: These 15 songs took on completely new identities from their original demo “Love It When You Hate Me” stays true to Lavigne‘s pop-punk roots as she […]

Avril Lavigne has announced her next album Love Suxis coming out February 25 via Travis Barker‘s DTA Records. In preparation for the album, Lavigne also revealed she will drop the track “Love It When You Hate Me” featuring blackbear on January 15. Read more: Avril Lavigne has announced plans to make a ‘Sk8er Boi” movie […]

Demos are a great way for listeners to peer into the creative process of their favorite musicians. As an artist’s vision comes to fruition, demos serve as the solidified rough draft of a song. They can show us the painstaking mental labor that comes with writing new music. They also portray the auditory and lyrical […]

You could argue that blink-182 are one of the major reasons why pop punk exploded into the mainstream in the 2000s. Following Green Day’s release of Dookie in ‘94 and Weezer’s nerd-positive brand of rock, blink were the reason a lot of kids wanted to pick up guitars. It was through TRL hits such as […]

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 final article covers our 2022 […]

The most notable aspect of punk rock in 2002 was the mainstream ascension of garage for the first time since the ‘60s. But all those albums by the Strokes, the White Stripes and the Hives that went mega this year were all recorded and released in 2002. Which explains their inclusion on this list, rather […]

[Photo by Justin Higuchi] Avril Lavigne recently announced she is making a “Sk8er Boi” movie. The new project is based on her classic 2002 song and is part of her upcoming plans to mark the 20th anniversary of her first studio record, Let Go, released in 2002. As a guest on the She Is The […]

At this point, you could practically write a textbook on the art of creating a pop-punk song. Ever since people discovered Green Day’s Dookie and the masses fell in love with “All The Small Things” on MTV, the genre has blossomed. Pop punk’s big break didn’t mean the genre got locked into a formula, either. […]

Beloved annual music retrospective Spotify Wrapped is here. Each year, Spotify offers users a chance to revisit their favorite songs and most embarrassing guilty pleasures, pulling together your most-played songs, artists and podcasts. This year’s Wrapped goes even further. Wrapped Blend allows you to compare your Wrapped with your friends’ own top streams. There is […]

Pop-punk heroes Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker have repeatedly shown their talents over the years. With their recent performance of “Bite Me” live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the duo are also showing off their synergy. Together, the two artists teamed up for a forceful performance of the new single, bringing the pop-punk […]

Last week, Avril Lavigne celebrated her debut on Travis Barker’s DTA Records with the release of the single “Bite Me.” In a recent interview, the artist also expressed her thoughts on the current state of the pop-punk scene. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Lavigne discussed a wide range of topics. She commented […]

Avril Lavigne has shared her latest music since 2019 with the new single “Bite Me,” which marks her debut on Travis Barker’s label DTA Records.  Alongside the track’s release, Lavigne will perform “Bite Me” live for the first time tonight on The Late Late Show With James Corden. Read more: Avril Lavigne announces UK and […]

Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker reunited for a Halloween weekend concert special. To set a spooktacular tone for the season, Barker’s own House of Horrors event, presented by NoCap, was broadcast from a private haunted estate. The livestream saw the blink-182 bassist and drummer returning to classics such as “The Rock Show” and “What’s My […]

Avril Lavigne has announced that she will be touring Europe next year. Lavigne was initially slated for a European run in support of her 2019 album Head Above Water, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to delay the dates. Read more: WILLOW, Avril Lavigne and KennyHoopla team up for “G R O W” video In an […]