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Lit are unveiling details today for their Spring Loaded U.S. tour. Alternative Press is bringing you the first word on the new run. The band also dropped a new live video for their single “Yeah Yeah Yeah.” Read more: Are the 2000s back? How Avril ... Read More ...

Mother's Day is fast approaching, which means it's time to celebrate and honor all of the badass moms and motherly figures in our lives. A mother's love is unmatched. They bring us into the world, guide us through life and yell at us to make our bed and pick up our clothes...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note... But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know like the backs of our hands. You don't even have to be a guitarist to get the sentiment. As l...

Band lineup changes are hardly a rarity in the music scene. Between creative differences, life events and personal fallouts, it's pretty common for at least one member to go in a different direction over the course of an outfit's tenure. And that, of course, leaves a significant void to be filled...

While some bands have miraculously played for decades without a lineup change, most have had to replace a member or two throughout their tenure. We see it all the time, though it's not always as staggering as, say, Matt Skiba stepping into a Tom DeLonge-shaped void. Oft...

Believe it or not, some of your favorite musicians have made cameos or are even heavily involved with the making of popular children's shows and teen series. In fact, just look at Bowling For Soup, who co-wrote and sang the iconic theme song to Disney's Phineas And Ferb, or Jack White, who played and sang alongside The Muppets for a delightful TV special...

All die-hard music fans can remember the first time they discovered a new band or heard a song that made them smash the replay button. Sometimes tracks have this unique capability to take your breath away, creating a fresh relationship that can launch you into a new world of music discovery...

It’s pretty mind-blowing when you find out that you’ve been singing the wrong lyrics. Especially when you sing them to a song you've loved since you first listened to it.  We’ve all been there with wrong lyrics. Sometimes you just find out that you really don’t know the words like you thought you did. That goes for new songs on ...

From low-rise jeans to flashy Myspace themes, the 2000s was an era defined by flamboyancy. While the majority of those embarrassing trends naturally faded with time, one product of the '00s has overstayed its welcome. The infamous brand Kidz Bop has been churning out family-friendly compilation albums since 2001 sung by kids, for kids...

Are there any arguments more divisive than the appropriateness of Christmas music during any given time or place? Sure, there's the whole "pineapple on pizza" debate, but does that really get your blood boiling like being assaulted with holiday merriment...

Billie Eilish, Jeff Tweedy, Taking Back Sunday, Trey Anastasio of Phish and over 600 other artists will take part in the largest single-night digital concert ever this Election Day, the #iVoted Festival 2020. The event, which runs from noon to 2 a...

“1985” by Bowling For Soup is a certified scene anthem. We’ve screamed it at Warped Tour and blasted it through our car speakers for 16 years now, but it’s still hard to believe it’s been around that long.  Even though it’s a classic, the song has been revived through TikTok, with people making a variety of hilarious videos featuring the track, including that “2005” emo remake.  Read more: Even mo

“I want you to stay. I want you to go.” That sounds like 70% of the sentiments found in the lyric sheets of bands operating in 21st century emo, right there. Bowling For Soup frontman Jaret Reddick knows something about the particular trend. After all,...

When movie adaptations and remakes are released, they usually generate the same initial response. "Was it better than the book?" "Is it as good as the comic?" We're guilty of that, too. But really, we're the ones asking if the soundtrack was any good...

Side projects have the special ability to give artists the chance to express themselves in whatever manner they choose without snobby genre lords or the (sometimes self-imposed) shackles of their previous works confining their sonic decisions...

MTV launched Aug. 1, 1981, and eventually took over the planet as a youth authority and a music video jukebox that had the power to catapult an artist’s career to the stratosphere. As YouTube and other streaming platforms took flight in 2005, MTV slowly started becoming more obsolete and less meaningful as a video network, and other stations suffered as well. Some...

We’re convinced that our lives would be so much better if Goalkeeper would just sing about them. The trio of frontman/bassist Ryan Beebe, guitarist Marc Juliano and drummer Cody Ritchie have an amazing ability to make the saddest things OK. On “...

So you passed our basic pop-punk quiz? Congratulations. You are, at least, a warm-weather fan. You probably wore a black tie with a beat-up T-shirt at least once. You went to Warped Tour a couple of times. We’re sure there’s a pair of Dickies buried somewhere in your closet.  Now, i...

Lots of bands can effectively write an extremely clever lyric, but it takes a certain bold and confident self-awareness to truly pull off loud and proud dad jokes in a song. Not that many artists can get away with a melodic vocal in such a light manner (or the opposite, depending upon which unappreciative fan is listening and bitching about the “corniness” of said phrase on the band’s official You

Earlier this week, AltPress reported about TikTok user fntmsage and his modern version of the classic Bowling For Soup hit "1985." Now the magnificent singer of BFS himself has posted his own TikTok reacting to the video.  In it, we see Jaret Reddick holding up a really cool piece of "1985" memorabilia and banging his head to the lyrics.  R...