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At the end of April, Christofer Drew announced he’d be returning to music with a new solo album called Unborn Spark, set to drop May 13. However, the former Never Shout Never vocalist underwent a change of plans and had to push the release date back.  While we’re sad we have to wait, Drew has definitely […]

blink-182‘s Travis Barker doesn’t seem to be slowing down when it comes to new projects. Just last night he appeared on The Late Late Show with James Cordon to perform with Machine Gun Kelly on his new single “Bloody Valentine.” Now, Barker is giving Demi Lovato‘s single “I Love Me” an emo remix. Released this […]

Neon-pop band Cash Cash took the Myspace world by storm in 2008 with their sexually charged hit “Party In Your Bedroom” from their debut album, Take It To The Floor. This song was stuck on countless profile pages along with the likes of Family Force 5’s “Love Addict” and 3OH!3’s “PUNKBITCH.” As the 2010s unfolded, […]

Pop punk began to rapidly gain traction in the early 2000s, landing impressive spots on mainstream charts that propelled the success of the genre today. This transformative period uncovered legendary bands who produced albums that have stood the test of time. While it’s apparent that pop punk began a definitive era 20 years ago, it’s […]

The older we get, the more we yearn for the return of Myspace. Myspace is where it all got started. Before checking Twitter and TikTok on our iPhones was a part of our daily routine, we had to settle down on the family computer and get to chatting with our friends, customizing our profiles and choosing […]

Getting a portrait tattoo is a risky move, but if it’s done right, it can be a work of art on your body.  You have to be a pretty die-hard fan of somebody to put their face on your body. The process takes forever, and you need to be ready to drop a lot of […]

Show us a lonely or hormonal teenager who didn’t have a Myspace page. There’s no “and we’ll show you…” predicate to that sentence. Because we’re convinced that nearly everybody coming of age in the early part of the century staked their swoop-haired claim into that digital landmass. Starting in 2003 as the pre-eminent social media […]

Deathcore has normalized the idea of the hardcore and death-metal scenes coming together. While that’s commonplace now, it wasn’t always like this. Even before the 2000s came and deathcore grew from being a new term to one of the biggest movements in metal, there were bands who carved the path for acts such as Suicide […]

Just as all of your favorite “scene” dudes are hanging with EDM artists, Steve Aoki is doing the opposite. The EDM powerhouse, beatmaster Travis Barker and newcomer Global Dan have teamed up to create “Halfway Dead,” a slice of electro-plated pop punk that might reinvent your swoop-haired wheel. “When I make songs, I’m trying to […]

While you’ve moved on to lip-syncing on TikTok, it’s hard to forget our side-swept, glitter GIF-covered roots circa mid-2000s Myspace. With the Rawring ’20s in full effect, revisit the nostalgic (and sometimes embarrassing) things we did on the platform. Build your Myspace page and we’ll give you the scene name you probably had above your […]

Here at AltPress, we’ve learned a crucial lesson. Mainstream America doesn’t understand that the concept of “emo” is over 30 years old. We know it wasn’t invented in a Hot Topic store. But we also know that the Grammys don’t have a category for “Best Emo Performance By A Duo Or Group With A Minimum […]

The internet in the 2000s was a strange place. We were low-key coders thanks to Myspace and thought we looked like models in our poorly edited selfies that we’d share to our profiles. One of the cringiest elements of the internet back in the day was the lingo we used. There were no rules when […]

Washington, D.C.-based prog-metal outfit Periphery have packed a lot of playing into their 15-year existence. The complexity of their musicianship and their writing skills aren’t for the casual listener. At a time when it feels like most artistic junctures seem to be missing a few ventricles (read: “half-hearted”), the sextet triple down on their vision. […]

We’ve all experienced heartbreak in one way or another over the years, but none compare to your first breakup and the scene songs that helped you through it.  Picture it: It’s the 2000s, and you’re sitting at your family’s computer spilling your heart out to all of your friends on AOL Instant Messenger about your […]

It’s finally 2020, a new decade that many former Myspace users are dubbing the “Rawring ’20s.”  Needless to say, we’re in full support of making the scene the focal point of the next decade. We miss the overly edited flash photos taken at unflattering angles, spending hours customizing our profile and mentally sorting our Top […]

Changing up your sound as a band can be really hit or miss with how the results turn out. Some acts have seen huge success from doing so, while others have been completely trashed by not only their fanbase but the music community as a whole. Still, bands making a big adjustment to their sound […]

Call it “neon punk,” call it “Myspace-core,” call it something even nastier, but we won’t stop listening to the weird-ass genre that emerged in the mid-2000s. Some of these artists went on to have huge mainstream success, and others, well…you can’t delete anything off the internet, right? Bring the party on, studded belt and all. […]

Ten years ago this month, Canadian superstar LIGHTS dropped her debut studio album, The Listening. The 13-track record was a kick-start to an incredible career filled with honest lyrics, cathartic melodies and collectible comic books.  From “Saviour” to “Ice,” The Listening contains mesmerizing tracks that we still have on repeat to this day. It’s time […]

Streetwear brand Bstroy’s spring/summer 2020 collection left show attendees (and the internet) baffled and angry on Thursday. Four of the runway models wore hoodies embroidered with the names of the U.S.’s deadliest school shootings across their chests. Bstroy co-founder and designer Brick Owens shared in a statement that he was attempting to “comment on gun […]