Leah Kate knew she was destined to become a pop star. With singles “10 Things I Hate About You” and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch," her dream is coming true.
There’s the classic adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a quality band T-shirt is worth a million. Our music tastes are synonymous with our personalities and how we express ourselves, so what better way to embody this than to dive into a collection of classic T-shirts?
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Just in time for 4/20, girlfriends have dropped a music video for “High Again.” The single is from their upcoming album (e)motion sickness, out June 17 via Big Noise.
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The visual finds Travis Mills and Nick Gross in a smoke sesh filled with celebrities. They proce...
For most fans of music, EPs aren't as special as full-length releases. They are often considered odds and ends in between records rather than their own thing. On that rare occasion, though, EPs give us a completely different experience than what we thought we would get, packing the punch of an album in a little amount of time...
Billie Eilish and FINNEAS are headed to Springfield. The duo will appear in The Simpsons short on Disney+, premiering April 22.
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“In ‘When Billie Met Lisa,’ Lisa Simpson is discovered by chart-topping artists Billie Eilish and FINNEAS while searching for a quiet place to practice her saxophone,” according to a press
Magnolia Park have released a new single featuring Bad Suns' Christo Bowman titled “Tokyo.” The track is accompanied by a music video.
The band's goal was to help listeners “immerse themselves in the dystopian love of Tokyo,” according to a press release. The visual, directed b...
Emo is hard to define for many reasons, including its vague characteristics and the fact that many of the most famous bands commonly thought of as being emo try to distance themselves from the tag. As a result, there are countless acts that find themselves erroneously labeled as being part of the misunderstood subgenre...
Taylor Hawkins, acclaimed drummer of Foo Fighters, has passed away at the age of 50. Musicians joined his fans and family in celebrating his life and legacy, especially his immense contributions to drumming.
Unsurprisingly, many drummers led the conversation...
A ton of recent music could go under the banner of “music derived from blink-182.” That’s not even a slam. Ever since breaking out onto the scene in the late ‘90s, the trademarks of blink have been so ingrained into modern pop punk that it’s hard to avoid them. Even so, the blink of today ...
408 have released a brand-new video for their single “Mark Hoppus,” and Alternative Press is bringing you the first listen. A tribute to beloved blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus, the track also honors his artistic legacy in a more… intimate way.
The band's visual p...
“Teenage dream, so hard to beat…”: 1970s pop-punk roots
As long as there’s been punk rock, pop punk — a more tuneful variant — has existed. What’s wrong with washing down your high-speed guitar crunch with some sunny melodies? Many of the earliest punk rockers grew up...
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...
The best laid plans can even go awry for one of the biggest rock bands in the world. The day before Alternative Press connects with Bring Me The Horizon was scheduled to be the band’s first in earnest working with BloodPop (aka Michael Tucker, the man who’s overseen records by Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber) on the follow-up to 2020’s POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR. Within an hour o...
SK8 has released a new video for the song “F*CK SOCIETY.” The track features Issue #399 cover artist Sueco.
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“F*CK SOCIETY” shows the Nebraska-born singer-songwriter Sk8 go even deeper into his pop-punk sound. The track itself is direct a...
As the new century’s first decade unwound, things evolved or deteriorated rapidly, depending on your perspective. The entire world was changing in every aspect. So of course, punk rock was gonna change with it.
The fundamentalists would scream and moan about how these changes weren’t punk at all, that we needed to go back to basics, how everything was better in “the old days.” Which was downr...
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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.
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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 T...
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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...
For Steve Caballero, the intersection of punk and skateboarding has always been at the forefront of what he does and creates for the world.
Caballero burst onto the skateboarding scene in the groundbreaking years of the early ’80s and ’90s, skating alongside the sport’s most iconic figures while living in Southern California during its renaissance period, where punk rock was at its most prolific
Following his cover of blink-182’s “Happy Holidays, You Bastard,” rising star jxdn has shared a deluxe version of his debut album Tell Me About Tomorrow.
This version includes three new songs, “CRACK MY SKULL,” “DEAD OR ALIVE” and “CHRISTMAS SUCKS.”
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