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Warped Tour: The only tour that mattered since 1995

Starting June 29-30 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Vans Warped Tour will hold its final high-decibel celebrations of punk rock and youth culture. Once the traveling roadshow returns to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, July 20 and 21, founder Kevin Lyman’s great touring experiment will become a part of rock ’n’ roll history, […]

Warped Tour 25-year history, brought to you in one playlist

The AP office has been running wild ahead of Warped Tour’s 25th anniversary dates, trying to think of proper ways to celebrate its unprecedented run as the go-to punk-rock event of the summer. During our research into its illustrious history, we realized that nobody had compiled the many different artists who have graced the Warped […]

13 ‘SpongeBob’ moments as your favorite bands

SpongeBob SquarePants and rock ’n’ roll are an unlikely pair, but when you’re on the air long enough, you see the main characters strut a multitude of different looks. For us, the parallels between these episodes and our go-to bands are undeniable. In honor of SpongeBob’s 20-year anniversary, here are 13 times the show channeled […]

15 most-streamed Spotify songs that might surprise you

We all know our favorite songs by our top bands, but we aren’t always spot-on when it comes to their most popular ones. The Spotify listeners have spoken, and their answers took us off guard. Here are the most surprising top-streamed songs on Spotify that we may or may not agree with. Read more: blink-182 will bring back […]

Four Year Strong’s Alan Day on how he started a Christmas tree farm

Alan Day is tending to his horses when he picks up the phone to AP. The Four Year Strong frontman might be best known for bringing the good times with his beloved pop-punk outfit, but over the years Day and his wife have been building a life around something far removed from the alternative music […]

Dance Gavin Dance announce new album and other news you might have missed today

[Photo by: Escape The Fate/Facebook, Dance Gavin Dance/Lindsey Byrnes] Watch new music videos from TLE and Reno Divorce—plus, don’t miss Citizen’s Studio 4 performance. Check out the news you might have missed today below! Read more: Panic! At The Disco announce third intimate pop-up show 1. Dance Gavin Dance announced a new album #ArtificialSelection coming soon… […]

Fall Out Boy release behind-the-scenes video for "Church" and other news you might have missed today

[Photos by: Car Seat Headrest/Dos Rios Films, Half Waif/Tonje Thilesen, Moose Blood/Megan Thompson, The Plot in You/Ashley Osborne] Catch Movements, the Plot In You and MisterWives on the road—plus, don’t miss new videos from Four Year Strong. Check out the news you might have missed today below! Read more: Starbucks’ limited-edition Valentine’s Day drink is a chocolate-lover’s […]

Four Year Strong's Alan Day explains how he went from musician to producer

[Photo by: Carly Rae] Producer might not be Alan Day’s expected title. Fronting Four Year Strong, Day is by no means a new face in music, but with his newest title as producer, he’s just starting to pick up steam.  “I have always pictured production being a path I go down for as long as I […]

Riot Fest 2017 day 1 coverage: Interviews with Nothing More, Vic Mensa and more

[Photo by: Ryan Bakerink] AP hit the road to Chicago for Riot Fest 2017 this year! Presented by Rockabilia, APTV correspondent Stevie James had the chance to post up and interview a ton of your favorite bands on-site. So far, we have interviews with Four Year Strong, Seaway, Like Pacific and Nothing More. We’ll continue to update […]

22 songs with more than one music video — from Blink-182 to the 1975

Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been gifted not one, not two, not three, but four music videos for Blink-182’s “Home Is A Lonely Place.” But don’t get it twisted: They aren’t the first band to create two or more music videos for one song. Read more: Where it all began: 16 bands’ very first […]

Four Year Strong announce second U.S. leg of ‘Rise Or Die Trying’ anniversary tour

Four Year Strong are continuing their US run for the tenth anniversary celebration of their sophomore record. The band just announced dates for the second U.S. leg of the Rise Or Die Trying US tour. Check out the list of cities and dates below! Read more: 20 albums we can’t believe turn 10 this year […]

11 acoustic sessions you have to watch right now

Live music is a powerful thing—we don’t need to tell you that. The feeling of melting together with a seemingly infinite crowd of bodies while jamming along to the same tunes is nothing short of religious. Yet, somehow stripping away the lights, the huge crowd, the drums and the electric physical feel of amplification can […]

Sparrow Sleeps created the ultimate collection of pop-punk lullabies and we're so happy—listen

Sparrow Sleeps—a duo helmed by Casey Cole and Peter Lockhart—turn your favorite songs into lullabies. The idea sprouted when Cole's daughter, Sparrow, was born. A pop-punk loving father, Cole began creating lullabies for Sparrow and shared them with the internet. Cole and Lockhart met in 2008. Sparrow Sleeps became official in 2014. Sparrow Sleeps have […]

Watch Can't Swim vocalist star in Four Year Strong's new music video

Can't Swim frontman Chris LoPorto stars in Four Year Strong's new music video for “Men Are From Mars.” Four Year Strong are currently on the Rise Or Die Trying 10-year anniversary tour with Can't Swim. Read more: 15 pop-punk/emo bands to keep an eye on Fittingly, “Men Are From Mars…” comes from Rise Or Die Trying, which is […]

Four Year Strong expand 'Rise Or Die Trying' 10-year anniversary tour

Four Year Strong are continuing the tenth anniversary celebration of their sophomore record. The band just announced dates for the first U.S. leg of the Rise Or Die Trying world tour. Support comes from Can't Swim, Light Years and Sleep On It. Check out the routing for part one of the Rise Or Die Trying […]

Hear Four Year Strong's "Wasting Time" reimagined as a lullaby

The folks over at Sparrow Sleeps have been providing soothing lullabies of assorted punk bands for about two years now, and this time they're back with a brand new EP of Four Year Strong songs. You can purchase the album right here. Read More: Four Year Strong give us an early Christmas present with ‘Home […]

Musicians look back on their best and worst Thanksgivings ever

From warm memories of traditions to that one time grandma ruined the gravy, everyone has memorable holiday moments. In AP #317, we asked some your favorite musicians what their best and worst Thanksgiving dinners were. Here are their stories: BEST ANTHONY GREEN—Saosin/Circa Survive When I was younger, I had really bad respiratory problems and would […]

Four Year Strong give us an early Christmas present with 'Home Alone' cover—listen

[Photo by Edward Carmin] Four Year Strong have given us a gift for the holidays. The Massachusetts natives have released their version of “Somewhere In My Memory”—originally written/composed by John Williams for the 1990 film Home Alone—just in time for the holiday season, and we have an exclusive first listen.  Read more: Ever wonder what happened to […]

10 album anniversary tours that need to happen in 2017

As we head into 2017, the anniversary and reunion tours are still going pretty strong, with this fall producing both Cute Is What We Aim For and Mayday Parade pop-punk goodness in full-album form. But what can we hope for next year? We’ve already found out that August Burns Red and Circa Survive will be […]

20 great music videos of 2016 (so far)

The Video Music Awards are tonight, and they’ve included a few standouts in the nominees for the rock music videos category. But so many music videos had to be left out, many of them having just come out in the past eight months. Here are 12 great music videos that have debuted so far in […]
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