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September is finally here, and you know what that means: It’s Riot Fest season! Riot Fest has quickly become the AP staff’s favorite festival of the year, with its insane lineups full of unexpected reunions and legends rubbing shoulders with up-and-comers. All three Riot Fests—Toronto, Chicago and Denver—share some lineup overlap. No matter which one […]

This Throwback Thursday, we're taking a second to be grateful for the times we made it out of shows with mere bumps and bruises when things could have ended much worse for us. Everyone loves a good scar story, so we're sharing ours and want to hear yours!  Tell us about the most brutal pit […]

Last night, the internet let out a collective gasp as Riot Fest organizers released the lineups for their Chicago and Denver iterations, as well as capped off their already-announced Toronto fest with the addition of mope-rock legends the Cure. Given that all three fests take place in a three-week span this September, and all three […]

Motion City Soundtrack are releasing a new video documentary, I Am The Movie: The Movie, on May 13 through Epitaph Records. The documentary, which features footage from the early ‘00s of the band during the recording their debut album, will be available on limited edition DVD, as well as through digital outlets like iTunes and […]

“Smash is the way you feel all alone/Like an outcast you're out on your own.” So sang Dexter Holland on the title track to the Offspring’s Smash, the breakthrough album from a group of California punk rockers who would have their lives change forever in the wake of their third album. Released on April 8, […]

The lineup for the UK’s Slam Dunk Festival has been updated to include a bunch of new bands, including Less Than Jake, Motion City Soundtrack, We Are The In Crowd and more. The full lineup, which you can check out below, had already featured such bands as the All-American Rejects, the Devil Wears Prada and […]

Allison Weiss has released a new song titled “Gay Gay Gay (Gay Gay Gay).” The track is taken from The Gayest Compilation Ever Made: Volume 2, which is available for purchase on bandcamp and also features Justin Pierre (track 3) of Motion City Soundtrack. Check out the song below (track 10), and let us know what […]

As if you didn’t already suspect as much, working at AP isn’t like a normal job. We frequently have rockers of all shapes, sizes, genders and genres wandering our halls, and with a few well-placed Sharpie depositories, we encourage them to graffiti up our walls. Here is just a small portion of what we have […]

Winter is just around the corner, and it’s time for us to remember the musicians who froze their asses off in the snow (or who had really good special effects) to bring us these great music videos. So bundle up, and get ready cause this list’s about to get chilly. 1. FALL OUT BOY – “Grand […]

Motion City Soundtrack have released a lyric video for their new single, “Inside Out.” They'll embark on a co-headlining tour with Relient K supported by Driver Friendly starting tomorrow. It's available now on iTunes. Check out the video below on YouTube:

The Company We Keep, which features the songwriting powess of Justin Pierre (Motion City Soundtrack), string action from TREOS' Brian Southall and percussion from Branden Morgan of Misery Signals and vocals by Haden Brightwell, are set to release their new album Sound / No Sound on October 29 via Easy Killer Records. You can stream the album's fourth track, “Shadowing” below and […]

Bayside frontman Anthony Raneri is departing the band’s co-headlining tour with Motion City Soundtrack to be with his wife for the birth of their first child. Raneri will miss the final three shows of the tour. Bayside will finish the remaining dates with their tourmates filling in on vocals. You can read a statement from […]

Motion City Soundtrack are streaming their new single “Inside Out” via Rolling Stone today. The single will officially be released tomorrow. The band will be on tour, co-headlining with Bayside, What’s Eating Gilbert and State Champs in October. 10/3 @ Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar 10/4 @ Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall 10/5 @ Clifton Park, NY […]

Motion City Soundtrack and Relient K have announced a fall co-headlining U.S. tour, with Driver Friendly tapped to open. The tour will follow Motion City Soundtrack's co-headliner with Bayside, which runs from Sept. to Oct. MCS are currently writing songs for their upcoming sixth album. Relient K recently concluded a summer tour in support of […]

Bayside have signed to Hopeless Records. The label states, “With the signing of Bayside, we have solidified what will be one of the biggest year’s in Hopeless Records history. We are so excited to work with our long time friends and can not wait for fans to see what is in store.” Read below what singer […]

Bayside and Motion City Soundtrack have added more dates to their co-headling tour with What's Eating Gilbert and State Champs. Check out the dates below:   9/14 @ Kitchener, Canada, KOI Music Festival 9/15 @ Chicago, IL, Riot Fest 10/5 @ Clifton Park, NY – Upstate Concert Hall 10/6 @ New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place 10/9 @ Baltimore, […]

Second-wave emo pioneers Braid have announced a temporary lineup change for their upcoming tour of the U.K. Longtime drummer Damon Atkinson will be unable to make the trip, so the band have enlisted Tony Thaxton, formerly of Motion City Soundtrack, to fill in. The band write: “Damon will not be playing drums for these 5 […]

Bayside and Motion City Soundtrack will be embarking on a short co-headlining tour this October with What's Eating Gilbert and State Champs. A preliminary list of dates can be found below, but the bands have promised to announce more shortly.  Tickets for the tour will be available Thursday 7/18 at noon EST. 10/5 @ Clifton Park, NY – Upstate Concert Hall […]