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We're rounding up the best newly announced tours. Tours from the National, Snail Mail, Yaeji, and festivals like Governors Ball, are the most exciting live music events coming soon.

Back in the mid-’90s, if you turned on the TV and saw Barry Horowitz patting himself on the back in a wrestling ring, you knew something bad was about to happen. Heavily bearded and magnificently mulleted, once the bell rang, he’d get twisted up like a pretzel in Bret Hart’s Sharpshooter, or press-slammed by the Ultimate Warrior, or maybe have his head kicked by Shawn Michaels. Horowitz is chie...

This is Tour Guide, a weekly recap of the concert news fans don't want to miss. From Sick New World to Snail Mail, check out who's coming to a city near you.

Why Bonnie have big ambitions. The band discuss their debut album, 90 in November, and the sharp imagery accompanying their fuzzy alt-rock.

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Snail Mail covered Superdrag's "Feeling Like I Do" for Spotify Singles. She also rereleased "Headlock" from her second album, Valentine.

Turnstile have revealed the dates for their upcoming North American fall tour. They also released the music video for “NEW HEART DESIGN.”

This month, MUNA made their cover debut with Alternative Press. The band appear alongside artists such as Alexisonfire, Bartees Strange, Soccer Mommy and Joyce Manor. In the cover story, MUNA walk readers through the creation of their new self-titled album. The...

It’s always beautiful to see a small business not only succeed but thrive in its community and become a destination for all walks of life to enjoy. For Justine Hernandez, she found her passion in vegan baking and started from grassroots beginnings, selling culinary creations from her home before taking the plunge to open her first brick-and-mortar bakery, coffee shop and cafe. Afte...

Check out The Latest – for all the essential new music, tickets and livestreams you need right now. Unlimited Love, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, is the soundtrack to your weekend Bands don’t get much bigger than Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the release of new album Unlimited Love, out today, is one of the biggest moments in the 2022 musical calendar. Reuniting with g...

Courtney Barnett has announced a touring festival called Here And There. The event is a one-day, one-stage festival held at 15 different locations. The rotating lineup includes Bartees Strange, Ethel Cain, Faye Webster, Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, Sleater-Kinney, Snail Mail, Wet Leg and many more...

When it was time to start work on the second Snail Mail album, Lindsey Jordan only had a couple of songs ready. “If I don’t actually have anything to write about, I’m not gonna write anything. I don’t want to. I don’t want to waste my time — I don’t want to waste anybody else’s time,” she says. Speaking on Zoom from a London hotel room she’s j...

Pandora has announced its collection of Artists To Watch 2022. The platform also revealed a playlist specifically focused on alternative music. The Alternative Artists To Watch 2022 playlist highlights a number of artists to keep an eye out for in the coming year, including half•alive, MUNA, phem, Snail Mail and Remi Wolf. The...

With Alternative Press issue 400, we celebrate a major milestone for the magazine. AP has continued to change with the times, staying in touch with the evolution of music and culture at large. However, we've never forgotten our commitment to championing "New Music Now...

If you're a fan of alternative music, you are well aware that emo is way more than just a phase. It's a sound, it's a subculture and it's a lifestyle to be a forever emo kid. Emo didn't die back in 2009—it's alive, and artists are expanding the genre more than ever. Read mor...

Thanks to the internet, our exposure to new artists isn’t reliant on record deals and radio hits. Alternative artists of all ages have been able to blow up on social media, release music on their own and launch their careers out of their bedrooms.  ...

Between the likes of Snow Patrol, Biffy Clyro and beyond, Scotland set some solid roots in the '90s mainstream alternative explosion. Don't mistake its prominence in the music scene as a thing of the past, though. The country has been churnin...

Taylor Swift recently surprise-dropped folklore, her eighth album, which is completely different from anything she’s ever released.  Swift, who’s known for country songs and pop hits, went alternative this time with the album she recorded while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more: Th... Read More ...

Emo music is often relegated to the past. With bands such as the All-American Rejects and My Chemical Romance dominating the airwaves in the mid-aughts, it was certainly more popular then when compared to present day, but that doesn’t mean the genre is necessarily dead. ...

Earlier this week, reports came rolling in of those rumored to be playing Coachella in 2020 including My Chemical Romance. While MCR aren’t on the final reveal, several of the speculated artists including Rage Against The Machine (who previously teased it themselves), Frank Ocean and Travis Scott have now been confirmed as headliners. A...