oral history

For Saddle Creek’s 30th birthday, we talked with the founding members about how they launched the iconic independent record label.

Maybe you’re a grizzled punk lifer who hates the kids. Perhaps you came of a certain age where you use the term ”melodic hardcore” more than “pop punk.” You may be a new listener doing a deep immersion into punk history. If you identify with any of these terms, we know you understand the importance […]

Richmond, Virginia’s Lamb Of God didn’t become a worldwide metal success by phoning it in. No effin’ way. In this special APTV oral history interview, guitarist Mark Morton is graciously forthcoming. He discusses all of their records, from their “dumb innocence” as Burn The Priest to their recently released self-titled album. Lamb Of God’s story is […]

Knuckle Puck guitarist Kevin Maida had some well-managed expectations when his band started. “I never thought it was going to be anything past playing a good local show, to be honest with you guys,” he tells his bandmates. “That was the personal goal in my mind.” Obviously, Maida and the boys did much better than […]

Over the past decade, Riot Fest has become one of the most beloved festivals in the world. They have reunited some of punk’s most iconic bands, and, in many ways, set the bar for how genuinely great a music festival can be. But when founder Mike Petryshyn started out in 2005, literally none of this […]

[Photo by: Bryce Hall] Fifteen years after No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls launched Simple Plan from obscure Canadian pop-punkers to mainstream hitmakers, the band are spending the majority of 2017 on the road, revisiting the album by playing it front-to-back each night.  Before heading to Europe this month and coming back to the States for […]

In celebration of their impending reunion at this year's Riot Fest (and marking the day noted on their song “Sluttering (May 4)”), the internet has declared today the day of Jawbreaker. Over the course of 10 years, four albums and about a parsec's worth of road miles logged, the legendary Bay Area punk trio inspired […]

And you wondered why they weren't in our Class Of 2003 Special… In AP 303, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fall Out Boy's Take This To Your Grave with our exclusive, massive oral history of the band, as told by them and the people who were there. Plus! Get to know Twenty | One | Pilots, […]

In 2010, Mark O’Connell’s never-ending campaigns to bring his friends John Nolan and Shaun Cooper back into Team TBS finally bore fruit. Reconvening for the first time in seven years, the reunited quintet started writing a new album. The result of these sessions is a self-titled release, which is due June 28. Beyond providing needed […]

After Shaun Cooper and John Nolan left Taking Back Sunday, the band replaced them with guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino and bassist Matt Rubano. The new lineup recorded 2004’s Where You Want To Be and 2006’s major-label debut, Louder Now. Tensions within the band started growing during the recording process for the latter, although TBS soon had something […]

Before Taking Back Sunday settled into the Taking Back Sunday lineup you know and love, they had a slightly different configuration: Eddie Reyes’ pal Antonio Longo was the vocalist—and a kid named Adam Lazzara was on bass. Of course, the latter eventually settled into the frontman role after Longo departed from the band, Shaun Cooper […]