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Real Friends Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing Real Friends’ greatest asset is their capacity for evoking poignant nostalgia in both their music and lyrics. Tapping a similar vein to the Ataris at their Blues Skies, Broken Hearts…Next 12 Exits best, as well as the Get Up Kids and the Starting […]

Real Friends have released a music video for their single, “I Don't Love You Anymore.” The track is taken from the band's upcoming debut full-length album, Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing, which is due out on July 22 via Fearless Records. Pre-orders are available now through both MerchNOW and iTunes. You can watch the video now below. Leave […]

Sometimes the rock world can get noisy, and we don’t just mean in decibels or fuzz. Often the signal-to-noise ratio is more noise than signal. But no worries; we read, listen to and watch everything so we can sort it for you. Here are some of our favorite new songs and videos of June 2014. […]

In our first Warped Tour 2014 edition of First Last Best And Worst sponsored by Ernie Ball, we talk to Real Friends about the FLB&W CDs they've owned. You know the drill by now, so go check out our previous segments and stay tuned for new ones all summer, both from our office and from Warped […]

Warped Tour kicked off to a great start today (June 13) in Houston, Texas. Today was especially awesome, because even if you weren’t there, you got to live stream the entire thing on the Warped Tour webcast. (We would have killed for that just five years ago.) Here in the AP skyscraper, we were all […]

Real Friends have released a lyric video for their second single, “Sixteen.” Previously, the Friends released a video for “Loose Ends” (ft. Chris Roetter), the lead single to their debut full-length album, Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing, available July 22 on Fearless Records. Both songs are streaming below and pre-orders are underway on MerchNOW, where one vinyl color […]

Below, you can watch video for Real Friends, one of AP's 100 bands you need to know, performing an acoustic version of the song “Loose Ends.” The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing, which will be released on July 22 via Fearless Records. Pre-orders […]

Photographer: Sedition1216, Emily Tantuccio, Erik Olson, Jonathan Weiner, Rebecca Reed, Adam Elmakias, Ray Duker, Alexandra Messick Your daily dose of previously unseen photography featuring your favorite bands and photographers.  Like what you see here? Check out additional work from your featured photographers:  Sedition1216 Keeyahtay Lewis / Deadbolt Photos Andrew Wells Jonathan Weiner Evan Hunt Rebecca Reed […]

Recent AP cover stars Real Friends have announced their debut full-length album, Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing, which will be released on July 22 via Fearless Records. The record will be the band’s first Fearless release and the follow up to 2013’s Put Yourself Back Together EP. You can check out the album artwork […]

Our April 2014 issue, AP 309, is loaded with plenty of reading, as is always the case in our annual 100 Bands You Need To Know issue, featuring must-read cover stories on the likes of Issues, Sleepwave, Twin Forks, Electric Century, Real Friends and Touché Amoré. With the playlist below, you can listen along as you read […]

Real Friends have finished recording their debut full-length album. The record will be the band’s first with their new label, Fearless Records, and the follow up to 2013’s Put Yourself Back Together EP. A summer 2014 release date is expected for the new effort. Check out an update from the band below:   Post by […]

Five more bands have been announced for the 2014 Vans Warped Tour. Motionless In White, The Word Alive, Real Friends, This Wild Life and Courage My Love were all announced on tonight’s episode of Fuse TV’s Warped Roadies and will join the forty previously announced acts. You can check out an announcement video from Real […]

Real Friends have officially begun tracking their debut full-length album at Always Be Genius Recording Studio—the same place where they recorded 2013's Put Yourself Back Together EP. The effort will be their first for Fearless Records, who the Tinley Park, IL-based pop-punks signed to in December. A summer 2014 release date is expected. Check out some […]

Our February 2014 issue: AP 307, features our annual most anticipated music feature, including cover artists Taking Back Sunday, Pierce The Veil, Crown The Empire, Motionless In White, Falling In Reverse, Memphis May Fire and 21 more! Listen along as you check out our twenty one pilots photo special, meet this month’s AP&R and AP Recs artists (Get […]

Real Friends have completed writing their new full-length. The band signed to Fearless Records last year and plan to release the album this summer. Fans can check out a tweet from Real Friends' official Twitter below. The band's latest EP, Put Yourself Back Together, is out on iTunes now. Oh also, we just finished writing […]

Here at AP, we go to a lot of shows. And like any good music fan, we make sure to make a beeline for the merch table before the night’s over. Nowadays, band merch is more than just a bunch of T-shirts you screenprinted in your mom’s basement. We’ve seen beach towels from the Wonder […]

Real Friends announced today that they have signed to Fearless Records. The band will release their debut full-length in the summer of 2014. The band released their latest EP, Put Yourself Back Together, earlier this year. Watch the band’s announcement video below: