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Joyce Manor are celebrating. This year marks a decade since the California band’s beloved self-titled debut that set the tone for the early 2010’s emo revival movement that’s very much still going on today. It can even be said that Prince Daddy & The Hyena, the first opener for Joyce Manor’s SummerStage in Central Park […]

Interestingly, some of our favorite albums ever recorded always seem to have one or two, if not more, tracks that we can just do without. The songs we hit the forward button on robotically, just as the one before it fades completely or comes to its triumphant cymbal-smashing final note. We have conversations about how […]

When Radiohead released Kid A, it was such a bold departure from their sound that it stunned the world. Fueled by a disdain for making alternative-rock music and a nervous breakdown that loomed large over Thom Yorke’s mental state, Kid A was the antithesis of everything they’d accomplished up until that point. It was as […]

Writer/director Judd Apatow accurately summed up college when he said: “College is the reward for surviving high school.” It’s true. The college experience proffers unprecedented freedom and a constant buzz of wonder—alive in every cup of ramen noodles and late-night study group. You may have left your teen angst in high school, but you’ve only […]

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 […]

Weezer have announced that they will be reissuing their 1996 hit album Pinkerton via the subscription service Vinyl Me, Please. This reissue will be available exclusively to all pre-existing and new Vinyl Me, Please subscribers registered before May 15. The record will be pressed on dark blue translucent vinyl with black marbling, and will come with […]

Weezer has announced upcoming tour dates for this summer and fall via a YouTube video, which you can view below. The dates are as follows: July 13 – Buffalo, NY July 14 – Cincinnati, OH July 27 – Hammond, IN July 28 – Somerset, WI July 29 – Council Bluffs, IA Sept 15 – Baltimore, […]

In January 2011, Weezer played The Blue Album and Pinkerton over two nights at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. When the band return to the city for an October 9 headline show at Riot Fest, they’ll be playing one of these albums—and it’s up to fans to decide which record they perform. Starting September 14 at 10 […]

While Weezer may have opened up the vaults on last fall's deluxe edition of fan-favorite album Pinkerton, even more nuggets from that era of the band's history have begun to pop up. A different version of Pinkerton and Blue Album outtake “I Swear It's True” as well as the first-ever full-band version of Songs From The Black […]