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The 2023 Grammy Awards are happening today (Feb. 5) in Los Angeles. The rock, alternative and metal categories are stacked with stalwarts as well as unexpected nominees. Turnstile were nominated in three categories: Best Rock Performance, Best Metal Performance, and Best Rock Song, while Wet Leg received five nods including Best Alternative Music Performance, Best Alternative Music Album, and Best

The Vermont DIY band THUS LOVE dropped their excellent, "queer post-punk" album 'Memorial' earlier this year.

With their sophomore album, Back Home, Big Joanie are honoring the deep roots of their ancestors. In this interview, the punk trio detail its creation.

Witch Fever are only just igniting. The band break down their new debut album Congregation and their goal to empower others along the way.

Halsey has taken aim at reports that concertgoers left the venue after their abortion rights speech. See what they had to say.

IDLES recently performed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. They played “Crawl!” off their latest release, CRAWLER. Read more: IDLES drop “When The Lights Come On” video, explain creation of ‘Crawler’ In addition, IDLES are set to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival tonight (April 15) and April 22. If you couldn't make it to this year's ...

In a world where bigotry has grown and isolation from digital screens amplified, IDLES strive to show love and empathy in the most in-your-face way possible. Fresh off their recent release, Crawler, the English quintet have released a music video for “When The Lights Come On.” The...

Tom Morello announced that he’ll be releasing one more album before 2021 ends. The Atlas Underground Flood will be the third entry in Morello’s series of collaborative albums and is a follow-up to The Atlas Underground Fire, which was released in October 2021. Alongsi...

English punks IDLES are back with CRAWLER, a follow-up to their critically acclaimed Ultra Mono. The album features two previously released singles, “The Beachland Ballroom” and “Car Crash,” both with accompanying videos. Read more: Check out ... Read More ...

With Alternative Press issue 400, we celebrate a major milestone for the magazine. AP has continued to change with the times, staying in touch with the evolution of music and culture at large. However, we've never forgotten our commitment to championing "New Music Now...

DC’s Dark Nights: Death Metal was already one of this year’s must-read comics. The Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo-helmed seven-issue series follows Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman as they grapple with foes from the Dark Multiverse, including the nefarious Batman Who Laughs. As its ...

Sharon Van Etten is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her second studio LP Epic with the special reissue epic Ten. For the record, Van Etten teamed up with a slew of artists to reimagine the original album’s songs including Fiona Apple who has reworked “Love More.” On the...

2020 held monumental plans for Frank Iero alongside My Chemical Romance on their return tour, but he spent the year much like the rest of us—discovering new music and reconnecting with some former loves. After more than a year spent at home, there’s only so much Netflix or Hulu to binge on, recipes to mimic from Pinterest or redecorating you can do around the house. But despit...

Post-punk had to happen. Punk rock opened all this space for people to make exactly the kind of art or culture that the disenfranchised had been imagining in their heads, and maybe had limited means or skills by which to make it. But what if you didn’t want to crank out recharged three-chord rock ’n’ roll with modern street poetry for lyrics? What if you want...

If we could identify one incandescent moment to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it would have to be having large stretches of time to listen to albums. Yes, in 2020, most of us binged on Netflix and chilled the best we could. But streaming services made access to music downright infinite...

IDLES are the band of the moment in the U.K., where their explosive and powerful music has become one of the soundtracks to a nation in flux. The Bristol-based quintet have reinvented rock, making it feel urgent again and adding a level of sensitivity and necessary self-questioning...

In 1981, British punk commandos the Exploited famously wrote  "Punk's Not Dead." It was a response to people persisting that the genre was bundled up tightly in Sid Vicious' coffin and buried. That was almost four decades ago. And every year, we're still waiting for naysayers to drink their last pints of icy cold STFU and move out of the way. Bec...

Two years ago, the British punk outfit Healthy Junkies made it stateside to bring their wild rock ’n’ roll to the masses. Lead singer Nina Courson filmed tons of footage of the event for Forever On The Road, an epic “rockumentary.” (No, really, it...

You know what happened this week? An American goth-metal gang enlisted some international vocalists to boldly reinvent some fan favorites. Two post-hardcore artists traded loud guitars for melodic synths to explore new vistas. Britain’s finest punk band teamed up with a world-acclaimed video director used to hanging out with Jack White and Jim Carrey. We s...

The second day of Lollapalooza is in the books, and the festival didn't disappoint. Fans welcomed the weekend with some awesome acts and some interesting headlines. Day two was highlighted by standout performances from 21 Savage, Against The Current, Bishop Briggs, Boy Pablo, Bring Me The Horizon, Chevelle, Conan Gray, Crowds, Death Cab For Cutie, IDLES, Janelle Monáe, Japanese Breakfast, Sigrid,