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Firefly festival have announced their 2022 lineup. The headliners include Halsey, My Chemical Romance, Green Day and Dua Lipa. Read more: So What?! festival adds 100 Gecs, Hawthorne Heights, more to lineup Other musicians set to perform at Firefly festival include 100 gecs, All Time Low, Avril Lavigne, chloe moriondo, GAYLE, Princess Nokia, spill tab, […]

Machine Gun Kelly has released the single “emo girl” featuring WILLOW. The track comes ahead of his new album mainstream sellout, due out March 25 via Bad Boy/Interscope. MGK previously teased the release of the song on his TikTok. He also sat down with producer Travis Barker to tell him that the new album’s name, […]

Halsey has announced the Love and Power tour in support of their latest album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The North American stretch of concerts includes headline shows along with festival appearances, so there are plenty of opportunities to see them this year. Halsey will be joined by beabadoobee and PinkPantheress as […]

Surprise, surprise! Halsey has released an extended edition of their 2021 album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which landed a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The extended edition now features the track “People disappear here,” as well as two versions of “Nightmare.” Listen to the extended album below. Read more: […]

Reading & Leeds have announced part of the lineup for their 2022 tour, including all six headliners set to make appearances. The three-day festival will utilize two main stages, a change the organizers have made to the event in recent years. Read more: 20 songs that transformed punk, from “Raw Power” to “Rebel Girl” Today’s […]

Beloved annual music retrospective Spotify Wrapped is here. Each year, Spotify offers users a chance to revisit their favorite songs and most embarrassing guilty pleasures, pulling together your most-played songs, artists and podcasts. This year’s Wrapped goes even further. Wrapped Blend allows you to compare your Wrapped with your friends’ own top streams. There is […]

Award season is upon us, finally unveiling the nominees for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The window for nomination ran from Sept. 1, 2020 through Sept. 20, 2021, with many of the nominations emerging last year. In the realm of rock, metal and alternative, artists from AC/DC and Foo Fighters to Halsey and St. Vincent […]

JAWNY connected with AltPress for issue #399. During the 10 Topics conversation, the indie-pop artist talks about his greatest musical strength, his (almost) professional skateboarding career and the most important lessons he has learned so far. GREATEST MUSICAL STRENGTH I genuinely think my greatest musical strength is that I can play every instrument decently. I […]

A 2007 episode of Family Guy opens with Peter Griffin presenting his wife with a gift. “Lionel Richie’s Can’t Slow Down?” she asks. “Great album, Lois, great album,” Peter says. “I didn’t know who I was until I heard this album.” Cut to Peter alone in his room, sitting off the side of his bed, […]

Bad Omens have announced their latest album, THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND, which is set for release Feb. 25 via Sumerian Records. Alongside the announcement, the group dropped the record’s title track and a visual to go with it. Read more: Bad Omens made their album to help others “feel in control and powerful” […]

Halsey has been keeping fans on their toes since the August release of their fourth studio album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.  In the same month, and just before the release of the album, fans saw the highly anticipated If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power film make its big-screen debut […]

Don’t be fooled: HE Creative are doing exactly what you think they’re doing when you glance over their Instagram feed for the first time—creating a normalized space for punk rock, female empowerment, diversity and more. Designed in various shades of muted hues, HE Creative are using their creative design studio as a means to elevate […]

The Grammy-winning producer FINNEAS has been named the No. 1 songwriter on Spotify in 2020. The algorithm for judging the top songwriters had been created by music rights data service blòkur, determined by a variety of factors. Read more: Badflower share new music video and announce sophomore album The first factor depends on popularity and […]

UPDATE: JULY 7, 2021, 5:00 P.M. E.T. Halsey officially released the cover art for their fourth album via Instagram. The photographic artwork celebrates the beauty of the body after childbirth and the duality of autonomy. As if depicted by a Renaissance painting, a baby sits on their lap with a curled-over hand and wrinkled blanket. […]

Canadian musicians Jessie Reyez and grandson (Jordan Benjamin) have joined forces to release a collaborative new track, “Rain.” The optimistic new song will be featured on The Suicide Squad, the next film highlighting DC Comics‘ team of antiheroes after 2020’s Birds Of Prey. Read more: Kane Caples knows inclusivity starts with self-acceptance and community “Rain” features […]

From the rock anthems that followed us through Iron Man to the timeless classics we danced to with Baby Groot in Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel has given us incredible soundtracks to coincide with their phenomenal movies. However, with the next phase of the MCU underway, we couldn’t help but think about how things could […]

Collaboration among artists can make good songs turn into great ones. Surely, the alternative scene has witnessed this, whether it’s Alex Gaskarth and Mark Hoppus joining forces to create Simple Creatures or even My Chemical Romance and the Used coming together to work on “Under Pressure.” These collabs, of course, were no surprise, as the […]

Firefly Music Festival has announced its 2021 lineup. The iconic music festival will return this year for four days, taking place Sept. 23-26. The event will be held at the Woodlands at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. In total, the festival will host over 120 artists, along with a wide range of amenities and […]

In the year 2021, being confined to one genre is a thing of the past. Artists have pushed the boundaries when it comes to sound, so even the lines of pop punk, hip-hop, rock, heavy metal and more can be blurred. Particularly in the past few years, rap and punk have formed a cohesive bond. […]

Even though we’re always on the hunt for new releases, covers of old songs from our favorite artists are always gifts welcomed with open arms. There’s something about a cover song that is always exciting, especially when other musicians are the ones showing their karaoke skills. It’s cool to see the artist put their signature […]