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Watch MGK, Steve-O and more unite with blink-182’s fans in “Happy Days”
blink-182 have clearly been keeping busy over the past few weeks. Today, the band debuted a music video for “Happy Days” that was created entirely while in quarantine. In March, blink-182 took to social media and asked fans to submit videos of themselves performing and dancing to the NINE track while practicing social distancing. Included […]
10 Gerard Way collabs every My Chemical Romance fan needs to hear
Gerard Way, the ever-iconic face of My Chemical Romance, has participated in a number of musical collaborations. With the relentlessly rising popularity of his comic book series The Umbrella Academy and a successful solo career under his belt, he’s somehow found plenty of spare time to contribute to other artists’ works over the years. In […]
Here’s how Juice WRLD inspired MGK and YUNGBLUD’s next collab
After sharing a brand new track last week during an Instagram live performance, Machine Gun Kelly spilled more secrets about his forthcoming pop-punk album Tickets To My Downfall that is due out this summer. During a recent interview with MTV News, MGK dished even more details on the highly anticipated release including a new collab […]
Here's why the Used's Bert McCracken keeps talking about the MCR tour
For those who were keeping up with tours and rumors before the coronavirus canceled everything, then you certainly know about one particularly strong rumor. That rumor is that the Used might be touring with My Chemical Romance. While we still don’t anything for certain, we might finally understand why the Used vocalist Bert McCracken has […]
10 live albums from the 2000s that still slap today
The 2000s birthed some of our favorite bands of all time, and those acts gifted us with some astounding live albums, spotlighting a certain time in each band’s history. Records like these show the viewer a more in-depth, behind-the-minds feel. From My Chemical Romance to Paramore, check out some of our favorite live albums from […]
15 music videos that will make you wish it was 2005 again
The year is 2005, and new gadgets are being introduced constantly. iPod Nano made its debut, and what could be considered the first video social media, YouTube, launched as well. This new platform encouraged artists to create easy, accessible music videos. Despite the low-quality, primarily small-budgeted videos, some bands went all out. Here’s a list […]
Gerard Way, Bert McCracken isolated vocals will take you back to 2004
My Chemical Romance and the Used had one of the most epic crossovers of all-time in the mid-2000s. Bert McCracken and Gerard Way gave their own take on the Queen and David Bowie classic “Under Pressure” to raise money for tsunami relief, iconically performing it on MTV2 in 2004. Securing its rightful place in the emo history […]
The Used's Bert McCracken on staying positive, potential tourmates, more
Happy birthday to the captain of the Used, Bert McCracken! To further commemorate this day of excitement and double-lividness, the mighty Gunz got down with the singer in the lobby of NYC’s Gramercy Theater. The band were out on some dates prior to the release of their fifth album, Heartwork. “We wanted to make a […]
The Used cancel UK/EU shows for opportunity they “couldn’t turn down”
Unfortunately, the Used have had to cancel their tour dates in Europe and the United Kingdom for May and June. In an official statement, the band has cited the reasoning as “an opportunity” that they “could absolutely not turn down.” The Used just finished their U.S. intimate club tour late last week and were set […]
Machine Gun Kelly updates pop-punk LP ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ release
We finally have a new update in the saga of Machine Gun Kelly‘s formerly rock, now pop-punk album. Considering our last bit of news was on Jan. 30, this new snippet comes just in time to ease our concerns. Machine Gun Kelly took to social media to announce that he has pushed back Tickets To My […]
Top 10 Bert McCracken collabs every the Used fan needs to hear
Besides traveling the world and creating albums with the Used, Bert McCracken has also been known to dabble with collaborations. In fact, genre-blending musician Machine Gun Kelly recently confirmed the energetic frontman will appear on his debut pop-punk album. To hold us over, and to celebrate McCracken’s birthday, revisit some of his most iconic recorded and […]
The essential emo albums from the genre’s 35-year history
Here at AltPress, we’ve learned a crucial lesson. Mainstream America doesn’t understand that the concept of “emo” is over 30 years old. We know it wasn’t invented in a Hot Topic store. But we also know that the Grammys don’t have a category for “Best Emo Performance By A Duo Or Group With A Minimum […]
10 Machine Gun Kelly collabs we’d love to hear on his pop-punk album
Machine Gun Kelly has always blended rock and rap throughout his career. The rest of the world took note in 2019 when he teamed up with blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and YUNGBLUD for the fiery, top-of-the-charts track “I Think I’m OKAY.” Since then, MGK has announced that he and Barker are diving even further into […]
Top 46 post-hardcore songs from the 2000s
Post-hardcore broke out as a movement in a huge way during the first decade of the 2000s while shaping how people view the genre today. Countless others had pioneered the genre throughout the ’80s and ’90s, but bands such as Glassjaw, At The Drive-In and Boysetsfire helped push it to new heights. Take a look […]
The Used enter neon chaos with “Paradise Lost, a poem by John Milton”
The Used dropped the details for their forthcoming album ‘Heartwork’ on Feb. 6. The record is a highly anticipated followup to 2017’s The Canyon. Previously, the only news we had regarding new music was December’s brutal single “Blow Me” with Jason Aalon Butler of FEVER 333. Now, the Used have released a new single “Paradise Lost, […]
The Used reveal collab-packed ‘Heartwork’ album details
The Used have returned! Following the release of the gloriously vicious “Blow Me” featuring FEVER 333’s mighty Jason Aalon Butler at the end of 2019, the band are now announcing the details of forthcoming Heartwork. They’ll be following up the single with “Paradise Lost, A Poem By John Milton,” which enters the digital realm tomorrow. […]
The Used on joining MCR tour: “It wouldn’t surprise anyone”
Bert McCracken of the Used might have let slip the final confirmation fans needed about them touring with My Chemical Romance. Earlier this week we reported that McCracken had been dropping major hints regarding the tour. Now, in an interview with Razor 94.7/104.7 it seems that McCracken has all but confirmed it. He also talks […]
The Used “probably” on My Chemical Romance tour, Bert McCracken hints
With all of this recent My Chemical Romance news, it may seem like the rest of the music world is overlooked. MCR sold out an entire U.S tour in under six hours, the world is still hunting for any sign of new music and they still haven’t discussed who would be supporting them for the […]
Machine Gun Kelly teases anthemic track off upcoming pop-punk album
The saga of Machine Gun Kelly‘s formerly rock, now pop-punk album continues. Yesterday, the musician shared a clip of a meeting with Interscope Records. The album’s producer, better known as blink-182‘s drummer Travis Barker also posted the clip. We learned last week that the upcoming album is called Tickets To My Downfall and features a score of […]
Machine Gun Kelly lands coveted the Used collab for pop-punk album
Machine Gun Kelly finally revealed the name of his much teased “pop-punk” album as Tickets To My Downfall last week. First teased as a rock album amid studio sessions with Travis Barker, blackbear, Goody Grace, Mod Sun and more, MGK updated his plans for a pop-punk album. Today, Machine Gun Kelly, Travis Barker and Escape The Fate guitarist Kevin “Thrasher” Gruft shared Instagram stories […]
