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Every month, Alternative Press is sharing some of our favorite new releases. From soul and Afrobeat to hypnotic dream pop, this month’s AP&R list spans various genres, bringing you a unique list of up-and-coming artists. Check out these rising artists who will soon become your new favorite below. Read more: AP&R: 347aidan, Scowl and other […]

Pistol, Hulu’s six-episode retelling of the Sex Pistols’ story through guitarist Steve Jones’ eyes, is hardly the first cinematic rendering of the life and times of England’s most notorious early punk-rock band. But it is the best. Mind you, the competition is hardly fierce. The first, 1980’s The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, was ostensibly a […]

Smeared lipstick, vivaciously spiked hair, large pleather boots — drag and alternative culture are not so dissimilar, the two having danced hand in hand over the decades, basking in one another’s great glory. Drag and punk share the same ethos, after all: stamping out hate, doing it yourself and pushing the boundaries of what society […]

From “crypto bros” to “goth girlfriends,” despite the vastly growing world of Web3, there remains an absence of diverse, marginalized groups represented in these spaces. Opportunities for artistic innovation are now being led by predominantly male, white, cisgendered voices, leaving little inspiration for women, people of color or those who identify with the LGBTQ+ community […]

For Gino Vento, the intersection of music and acting has more similarities than you might expect. Vento discovered music at a young age, and by the time he entered high school, he began to play in several local bands in the Miami area. However, it wasn’t until he formed his most notable project Thick As […]

Nov. 20, 1980, after-dinner hour: England’s eyes were focused on Top Of The Pops, BBC’s long-running pop program, as they had every Thursday evening since the first day of 1964. In the middle of the rundown of the U.K.’s 30 best-selling singles appeared this apparition, resembling black leather Visigoths from a Hell’s Angels fever dream. […]

Jonathan Weiner never set out to be a professional photographer. Picking up a camera for the first time as a teenager was, initially, simply a way to hang out with his friends and, crucially, get the best view possible not afforded to those onstage at the gigs he was frequenting as many as five times […]

Remember when Tom DeLonge started shouting about UFOs and no one took him seriously? Remember later, when the U.S. Navy confirmed the mysterious objects appearing in the footage DeLonge helped get released were, in fact, UFOs? People weren’t laughing then. And for further evidence of him being vindicated in his conviction, you need only look […]

If there’s one thing Lily Lizotte loves more than making fantastic pop music, it’s a good double meaning.  Planted in nearly every song by THE BLSSM — the 24-year-old’s self-described blissful pop project — is a feeling of both happiness and sadness, competing with each other through lyrics that mean one thing and a chorus […]

This weekend My Chemical Romance kicked off their huge worldwide tour in the U.K., starting at Cornwall, England’s Eden Project. Ahead of the band’s first performance at Milton Keynes Stadium, where they’ll be residing for four nights in a row starting Thursday May 18, Alternative Press caught up with fans camping out from the crack […]

Charlie Hickey‘s music is rooted in storytelling. Chronicling the unpredictability of life through his lyricism, the Pasadena-based artist tends to look toward the past to some of the great folk singers while simultaneously taking inspiration from many of today’s musicians. Similar to his heroes, Hickey is creating music with sincerity and catchiness. Hickey’s debut album, […]

2005 began with a sick hangover, otherwise known as facing four more years of President George W. Bush’s administration, compounded by the erroneous war in Iraq. And that queasy stomach and headache never subsided. Is it any wonder the year’s best punk music was overwhelmingly bright and cheerful, even if it pounded like a jackhammer? […]

Until recently, Noah Finn Adams (aka NOAHFINNCE) had never been to therapy before. When the time finally came to sit down in front of a therapist and spill his guts, he found himself able to join the dots between his present and his past. Traumatic events from a decade ago were still rippling into his […]

In 2006, when Anna-Catherine Hartley was a mere 18 years old, she released her debut single “Pop The Glock.” Performing under the stage name Uffie, the song was released on a whim with no expectations other than to have fun within her artistic community. Instead, she would experience immediate viral success. Following her breakout single, […]

Thursday evening, My Chemical Romance had the absolute audacity to drop “The Foundations Of Decay,” their first new song since 2014’s “Fake Your Death” without warning. The band fully disrupted reality as we had known it, waking slumbering souls, tearing us out of the comfort of resignation we’d been living in that new music would […]

TOBIAS FORGE IS CONCERNED. It’s Valentine’s Day in Pittsburgh, where Ghost are halfway through their co-headline tour with Volbeat, but the only love the Swedish mastermind is pining for is that of the listening public, who he fears are about to be overwhelmed by a deluge of music. “We’re facing an insane tsunami of bands,” […]

April 13 marked an unfathomable day for Dance Gavin Dance. With the passing of their friend and longtime bassist Tim Feerick, the band found themselves in the midst of a crisis. In their AP cover story, Dance Gavin Dance do much more than break down the creation of their forthcoming 10th studio album, Jackpot Juicer. […]

The screen fades in from black to a grainy, high-speed chase through an urban landscape, all jerky camerawork and streaky lights, flickering between night and day. The lens finally settles on a water plant or oil refinery rushing by, cutting to details of a speeding motorcycle carrying a pair of riders who resemble Mad Max […]

Like much of the world, PinkPantheress drew inspiration from watching Paramore perform. Once you dig into her music, or look at her Instagram, it becomes easier to spot her alternative influences. In fact, she wears them proudly. In the cover story, the artist recalls witnessing her hard work bear fruit during 2021’s Reading Festival. Standing backstage, […]

LIKE A VINTAGE POLAROID, there exists a portrait of Post Animal’s latest record that rings clear in guitarist Jake Hirshland’s mind. “My image of this record is walking from the house that we were all staying in at the farm to the barn that we were playing in, in the middle of the night, and […]