hawthorne heights

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The incendiary new single is off their forthcoming EP Lost Lights, out next month.

Hawthorne Heights announced the 2023 dates & lineup for their touring music festival, Is For Lovers, featuring Alkaline Trio, Jimmy Eat World, & more. See the full lineup now.

Emo’s Not Dead is live event and apparel brand inspired by emo nostalgia. Scene veteran and founder Matt Cutshall, who started the project as a YouTube channel, talks the evolution of the brand.

Welcome to Sound Station, where we’re highlighting the best new tracks that came out this week. Head into the weekend with songs from Taylor Swift and more.

So What?! Music Festival has updated the lineup for its 2022 event. The lineup includes 100 gecs, 3OH!3, Sleeping With Sirens, 24kGoldn, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights, Maggie Lindemann and many others. And there are still more special guests yet to be announced. Read more: Maggie Lindemann discusses her new album and working with Chase Atlantic […]

2022 is shaping up to be the year of emo. The Emo’s Not Dead cruise has just been announced, featuring some of the biggest artists from the scene. The Emo’s Not Dead cruise sets sail on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles and arrives in Ensenada, Mexico before returning to L.A. on Nov. 12. The bill […]

Hawthorne Heights have released their eighth full-length, The Rain Just Follows Me, via Pure Noise Records. The project was produced by Grammy-winner Cameron Webb (Alkaline Trio, NOFX, Megadeth) and tackles what it’s like for singer/guitarist JT Woodruff to be in Hawthorne Heights for over a decade, both physically and emotionally distanced from his wife and […]

Hawthorne Heights have announced that their eighth full-length, The Rain Just Follows Me, will arrive Sept. 10 via Pure Noise Records. Ahead of the release, the band shared a new single, “Constant Dread,” featuring Counterparts’ Brendan Murphy. Read more: 15 tracks produced by Billy Martin from Good Charlotte The 11-track album was produced by Grammy-winner […]

Featured in the August 2007 issue (229), Hayley Williams made her Alternative Press cover debut ahead of Warped Tour 2007 before Paramore appeared on the cover of issue 235 as the Band Of The Year in February 2008. Following the release of their sophomore album in June 2007, ‘Riot!,’ the group were interviewed by Jonah […]

Bayside have announced the 21 Years Of Bad Luck tour, with a setlist culled from across the band’s career. Originally set to kick off in 2020, the event will commemorate the group’s first two decades as well as the release of their ninth full-length album, Interrobang. The tour launches August 28. Bayside will also make […]

There’s no denying that pop punk owes much of what it has to Canada. With greats such as Avril Lavigne and Sum 41, the country has shaped the larger scene pretty significantly. We’ll let you in on a little secret, though… It’s still continuing to do so. In the midst of today’s pop-punk revival, scenes […]

The beauty of emo music is that it provides a canvas for our own emotional projections. The lyrical narratives, even when relatively specific, often have just enough ambiguity that we can relate them in some sense to our unique circumstances. With that said, knowing the backstories of our favorite songs can elevate them to a whole new […]

You may or may not know this, but producer/songwriter Howard Benson was likely behind the boards for at least one of your favorite albums of all time. Want proof? Monster breakout records by My Chemical Romance (Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge), the All-American Rejects (Move Along) and even Daughtry (Daughtry) were all produced by Benson. […]

The genre affectionately known as emo started out as a wave of internalized rage bubbling under the surface of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Summer in the mid-’80s. Within three decades, it had permeated the mainstream and changed beyond all recognition. Like it or not, the bands inspired by that initial breakthrough, including Rites Of Spring and […]

Emo may be a vague term, but it conjures up some seriously vivid 2000s nostalgia. You know, memories akin to straightening our bangs and overlining our eyes while listening to the saddest songs imaginable…  Regardless of what exactly your emo phase looked like, there were certain staples that everyone had to load onto their iPods. […]

Emo (noun): a hotly contested music genre where bands and fans alike refuse to agree on who qualifies for a place in the rankings for all eternity, where no band admits to falling into the criteria of emo, and no fans admit to listening to it either. Of course, the one precursor to belonging to […]

Nothing grabs listeners’ attention like a good diss track. After all, it’s pretty much human nature to tap into any source of drama one can find. Eminem‘s been on a roll with the tactic. The rapper made headlines after taking a jab at Machine Gun Kelly on his 2018 album, Kamikaze. Now, on his latest record, he’s […]

There are certain opinions that all former emo kids hold. Like how listening to sad, confessional songs is the best way to feel alive or… OK, maybe that’s it. Truth be told, there’s no one commonality between every emo phase. Don’t believe us? Just look at the small fraction of dislikes on Matt Cutshall‘s YouTube videos. Seriously, if […]

New York City pop-punk quartet Bayside are celebrating their 20-year-anniversary and showing love to their fans as they do it. Though they couldn’t go on their 20 Years Of Bad Luck tour with Senses Fail, Hawthorne Heights and Can’t Swim and share their two decades-worth of discography with listeners, they are offering their followers a […]