chumped

(MOSTLY SELECTED) BY: Brian Shultz Each year, multiple groups of musicians who banded together and managed to find creative fulfillment with one another decide to go their separate ways. It’s inevitable, but it often leaves their fans feeling like they’ve been punched in the gut. There are always the bodies of work they leave behind, […]

Every year, the editors of AP gather around one computer with excellent speakers, listen to hundreds of bands and sometimes have sword fights and/or shouting matches to curate 100 bands we really, really think you need to put on your radar. It all culminates in one giant printed feature profiling those 100 artists. This year’s 100 Bands […]

Sometimes the rock world can get noisy, and we don’t just mean in decibels or fuzz. Often the signal-to-noise ratio is more noise than signal. But no worries: We read, listen to and watch everything so we can sort it for you. Here are some of our favorite new songs and videos of November 2014. […]

Chumped Teenage Retirement Chumped’s debut album couldn’t really be called anything else—its 12 songs throb with both the naïve, reckless abandon of youth and the jaded, tired contemplation of old age. What you get when this Brooklyn, New York, four-piece combine the two is a vital examination of the human condition that seems to run […]