To properly dissect the best emo albums from 2011, one must not be afraid to use the term “emo” broadly, as this style of music can take shape across multiple genres. In 2011, emo was arguably at its lowest point commercially, as the mid-to-late 2000s boom had slowly faded away at the turn of the decade, followed by the genre’s dip into happier and more neon territory. However, due to ...
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Brooklyn pop-punk quartet Hot Knife are here to stick it to the corporate elite in their brand-new track “TOP 10 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE.” The band are exclusively premiering the riffy and sarcastic song with AltPress.
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Yep, you read that headline right. Characters from Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl are starring in an intense TV series by the same producers of Riverdale.
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The first Warped Tour included No Doubt, Deftones, No Use For A Name, Quicksand and CIV in 1995. All of them released important albums the same year, one that also gave us full-length debuts from Foo Fighters, Blink-182, and AFI and important releases by Radiohead, Rancid, White Zombie, Pennywise and Smashing Pumpkins...
There are blatant ways a band can wear its influences (think cover songs and copycat designs), but there's a subtler method that gets the point across to those in the know. We're talking about songs where an old familiar lyric (or title, in a few cases) is snuck in there. Think
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The first round of bands have been announced for the Fest 13, including such acts as Descendents, Lifetime, the Menzingers, Less Than Jake and Strike Anywhere. You can check out the full list of bands below.
The Fest will take place in Gainesville, Florida over the course of three days (October 31, November 1 and 2) and will feature over 250 punk and independent bands. The
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Paint It Black
Invisible EP
	Invisible marks the first batch of Paint It Black material in nearly four years, a six-song EP that may appear frustratingly abbreviated, but is actually viewed as a complete release by the band. (Savor it, because as frontman Dan Yemin recently told Brooklyn Vegan, "the album is a dead format" to them
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Forever Came Calling
Contender
	Let’s face it, New Found Glory and Senses Fail aren’t getting any younger, so there’s reason to celebrate a new crop of pop-punk heroes coming up through the all-ages clubs and local dive bars to take the throne of wagged tongues and youthful over-exuberance. Enter Handguns,
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The lineup for this year's This Is Hardcore festival has been announced and is available below. The event happens August 9 at Union Transfer and on August 10-12 at the Electric Factory, both in Philadelphia, PA.
Thursday, August 9th
Terror
Earth Crisis
Ringworm
Maximum Penalty
Mindset
Naysayer
Lifeless
Build & Destroy
The Storm
Friday, Augusth 10th
headliner TBA
Cro-Mags
Cold
Armalite
Humongous EP
It's been five years since the first and only release from this Fest-ready supergroup, the self-titled and unstoppably great Armalite. Since then, the members of Armalite have remained pretty busy, so the radio silence is excusable, if disappointing; bassist Dan Yemin has his real life as a child psychologist to attend to when not playing in Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite or
Lifetime has cancelled their scheduled appearance at The Fest 10, and will be replaced by Kid Dynamite. Guitarist Dan Yemin, who plays in both bands, gave this statement to The Fest's website:
	"We're sad to say that we're going to have to cancel, or as Tony (Weinbender, The Fest organizer) so kindly put it, "bail," for Fest 10. Pete (Mart
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