interviews

Elf, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Love Actually and more: They’re all Christmas classics, and they’re all loved by some of your favorite bands, including Can’t Swim, Boston Manor, A Will Away, Moose Blood, Have Mercy and ROAM. Read more: Here’s Freeform’s “25 Days Of Christmas” schedule FEATURING: Greg McDevitt, Andrea Morgan, Michael Sanchez, Danny Rico […]

In AP’s BEST EVER series, watch your favorite bands name who they think is the best alternative artist, ever. For Volume 2, we spoke with more members of A Will Away, Can’t Swim, Good Tiger, Boston Manor, ROAM, I The Mighty, Hail The Sun and Have Mercy. Find out which members chose Frank Ocean, who chose Third Eye Blind (“They are […]

In AP’s BEST EVER series, watch your favorite bands name who they think is the best alternative artist, ever. For Volume 1, we spoke with A Will Away, Can’t Swim, Good Tiger, Boston Manor, ROAM, I The Mighty and Have Mercy. Find out which guys chose David Bowie, who said the Strokes' fashion was “out […]

Doors that slam on people, ghosts that cross the road, boxes that disappear and… clowns: Are you scared yet? Read more: 10 songs that will actually scare the hell out of you, ranked These are all things that members of Dance Gavin Dance, Wage War, Moose Blood, Bad Omens and the Plot In You lived through. They […]

[Photos by: Remington Leith/Instagram, Andy Black/Instagram] In under two weeks’ time, Ash Avildsen’s music industry drama-come-supernatural epic American Satan will be in theatres. Featuring original music by fictional band the Relentless and starring Andy Biersack, it’s one of the most exciting ventures our scene has witnessed in years. AP recently spoke to Avildsen and Palaye […]

*This article contains discussion about sexual assault. On August 30, AP published a piece titled “14 musicians discuss sexism in the music industry.” We initially wanted to feature the views of both women and men in the article—albeit with a larger proportion of female artists, as it is overwhelmingly women who experience sexism—but despite reaching out […]

[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.  On day one, we interviewed Four Year Strong, Seaway, Like Pacific and more. Today, on day two, we're livestreaming on […]

“I shouldn’t be on fire, but I am,” says Slipknot founder and percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan halfway through the band’s new concert documentary film, Slipknot: Day Of The Gusano. He’s describing the band’s “anything goes” attitude in regard to touring, performing and reaching out to fans, but the choice of language isn’t exactly figurative: […]

[Trivium photo by: Jon Paul Douglass] When Trivium and Arch Enemy announced an extensive North American co-headlining tour earlier this month, it wasn’t just fans of both bands who were stoked. Turns out, there’s a bromance among all the bands on this tour. Support for the tour, which kicks off Oct. 27 in Orlando, Florida, comes […]

*This article contains discussion about sexual assault. If the viral video of Architects frontman Sam Carter calling out a sexual assault at a show proves anything, it’s that the alternative music scene has a real problem on its hands: sexism. Carter’s actions are the most recent example of the issue, but just earlier this month […]

[Photo by: Andy Mills Photgraphy & Media] Earlier this year, colorful Scottish pop-punkers Vukovi decided to put a spotlight on victimization and the cultural impact of bullying, in particular cyberbullying, with one of their music videos, “Weirdo.” With the constant increase of smartphone applications, most of us have access to a never-ending list of communication channels, […]

The country is in an uproar over recent racist demonstrations we thought were just blasphemies of history. The presidential administration makes its latest PR blunder in handling extremely delicate and inflammatory issues with a total lack of sense and compassion. This is an era of extreme division, instability, anger and sadness. But while the world […]

[Photo by: Samantha Falco] Whether they’re playing a packed room in Toronto or waiting next to a broken-down van in Lincoln, Nebraska, Coldfront know how to have a good time. Their new music video “So Typical” is a testament to friendships founded on goofing off, a continuation of the video they released earlier this year […]

[Photo by: Julia Robinson] Before the disbandment of pop/punk indie four-piece Reckless Serenade, vocalist Cory Brent and guitarist Will Prinzi found themselves on the road together while the band was on Warped Tour last summer. Prinzi opened up his laptop, double-clicked on Logic, and the creative juices started flowing. “We'd bounce ideas off of each other […]

Adam McIlwee wears a few hats: former co-frontman of Tigers Jaw and co-founder of the GothBoiClique 10-person collective, which includes Lil Peep, heralded as “the future of emo.” But it’s his current “emotional trap” project Wicca Phase Springs Eternal that’s closest to his heart. Wicca Phase blends trap, emo and recognizable samples, but it’s his […]

[Photo by: Franz Schepers] Antarctica-based KMFDM are exclusively streaming their new album HELL YEAH with Alternative Press. The band say it’s their “past and future colliding,” with a bold sound that fans will love. “We have been delivering the Ultra heavy beat to audiences around the globe since 1984! With our new album HELL YEAH […]

Islander are officially free agents after having quietly separated from Victory Records earlier this summer. Their first move since then is to deliver the new tune “Summer,” complete with a video showing a look at life on the road and a peek at the band’s newest members. Listen to “Summer”: The track was originally supposed […]

[Photo by: William Aubrey Reyonlds] There’s something addicting about *repeat repeat. Maybe it’s the high-energy “Plugged In” that almost gives you a runner’s high just by listening to it. Or maybe it’s the perfect concoction of surf, rock and pop that make their tracks so sticky sweet and irresistible. Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee and signed to […]

In October 2015, Warped Tour founder/majordomo Kevin Lyman put together a one-day festival called It’s Not Dead, which, according to both young listeners and long-in-the-toof poonks, was a dramatic departure from the summer fare Lyman is known for compiling. Yet the 20,000 rockin’ faithful who piled into the (then-called) San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, […]