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Has any word been more misappropriated than emo? It’s been used to describe everything from people to events to films to clothing, but when it comes to encapsulating the specific music that inspired the name, no one can agree what actually constitutes it. So what actually is emo?  Read more: Are the 2000s back? How […]

Firefly festival have announced their 2022 lineup. The headliners include Halsey, My Chemical Romance, Green Day and Dua Lipa. Read more: So What?! festival adds 100 Gecs, Hawthorne Heights, more to lineup Other musicians set to perform at Firefly festival include 100 gecs, All Time Low, Avril Lavigne, chloe moriondo, GAYLE, Princess Nokia, spill tab, […]

So What?! Music Festival has updated the lineup for its 2022 event. The lineup includes 100 gecs, 3OH!3, Sleeping With Sirens, 24kGoldn, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights, Maggie Lindemann and many others. And there are still more special guests yet to be announced. Read more: Maggie Lindemann discusses her new album and working with Chase Atlantic […]

Record Store Day is set to celebrate its 15th anniversary April 23. Organizers are again teaming up with Vans for a compilation album. It will be titled Portraits Of Her. The release features a number of artists, including Laura Jane Grace, girl in red, K.Flay. Read more: Sky Katz releases “Breakup Song,” co-written by Joel […]

Welcome back for another AltPress Weekly. Every week, we highlight the things we want you to check out. We always keep you up to date about what’s happening at Alternative Press. We’ll also bring you our latest music finds, from longtime favorites to brand-new releases. We’ve got another week of new music discoveries and other exciting […]

Elvia is an artist—in every sense of the word. But in addition to her bare-bones approach to creating music with her partner Idris Vicuña (professionally known as Eyedress), she’s also a dedicated mother, clothing designer, visionary and more. With a handful of songs to her name, including “COTTON CANDY SKIES,” the gentle ballad she penned […]

Silverstein are back with an explosive new track “Bankrupt.” Following their latest full-length A Beautiful Place To Drown and back catalog revamps on Redux II last year, “Bankrupt” marks their first new song of 2021. The post-hardcore staples aren’t holding back with an energetic new video for the rage-fueled track that serves as a commentary […]

It looks like Ashnikko‘s new album DEMIDEVIL is arriving sooner than fans anticipated. On Thursday, Ashnikko revealed that she is pushing up the release date for the forthcoming album by an entire month. Read more: Elon Musk is the world’s richest person and the reactions are unsurprising Ashnikko’s highly anticipated 10-track album DEMIDEVIL faced quite […]

If we could identify one incandescent moment to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it would have to be having large stretches of time to listen to albums. Yes, in 2020, most of us binged on Netflix and chilled the best we could. But streaming services made access to music downright infinite. We could finally […]

With the interest in exclusive genres seemingly waning, both musicians and listeners have leveled the playing field. The most fertile of genre collisions has definitely been in the realm of emo rappers. The slow-moving hip-hop grooves of hip-hop vibe perfectly against emo’s heart-on-sleeve angst and sadness. Our video focuses on the emo rappers who have […]

Silverstein dropped their phenomenal tenth studio album A Beautiful Place To Drown recently and the band are still offering new content from it with their latest music video for their Princess Nokia featuring track “Madness.” The band are revealing the new clip today which features some aggressively colored aesthetics to match the song’s pop-leaning sensibilities. Read More: Pete […]

Silverstein announced the release date for their next studio album A Beautiful Place To Drown and also dropped their latest single off the LP with “Infinite” featuring Aaron Gillespie. In June, the band celebrated the inking of a new record deal by joining forces with Caleb Shomo in a blistering new single, “Burn It Down.” Read […]

The year is TwentyNineScene, and the emo revival is real. In a music world where genre-blending is slowly becoming the norm, emo finds itself getting mixed across the music scene in some pretty incredible ways. In 2018, emo rap was the fastest-growing genre on Spotify. The cross-blended genre has only gotten bigger since then, bringing […]

Princess Nokia is now under fire for stealing the beat off her song “Mine,” as well as a track from Colombian singer-songwriter Kali Uchis. The claims are coming out only a few hours after the rapper called out Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings” for ripping her off. Read more: Ariana Grande remembers Mac Miller’s birthday with message Ariana Grande’s […]

Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” has sent the internet into a frenzy. However, all of the publicity has summoned the attention of alternative rapper Princess Nokia, and her response is far from positive. Princess Nokia claims that Grande’s latest song rips off “Mine,” from her 2017 release 1992 Deluxe. In a video the rapper shared to […]

[Photo by: Princess Nokia/Instagram] New York rapper and incredible performance artist Princess Nokia, also known as Destiny Frasqueri, has debuted a quirky new radio show on Apple's Beats 1 Radio—and we are LIVING for it! Read more: Apple Music to overtake Spotify in paid US subscribers Nokia took to Instagram to discuss the format for her […]