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His debut album under Jakobs Castle arrives in April.

Listen to your favorite alternative artists put a spin on classic holiday tunes. From Jimmy Eat World to Fall Out Boy, these are the top alt holiday songs.

There’s the classic adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a quality band T-shirt is worth a million. Our music tastes are synonymous with our personalities and how we express ourselves, so what better way to embody this than to dive into a collection of classic T-shirts?  Alternative Press is pleased to […]

1997: All media is declaring the alternative–rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was over in their eyes, too. That selfsame media could not have been more wrong. Green Day had just issued their fifth album, Nimrod. The Offspring, the band who made the catchphrase […]

This past March 5, the French punk label Guerilla Asso quietly slipped a genius album into the marketplace: Rocket To Kingston, credited to Bobby Ramone. The melding of the isolated vocal tracks from nine of Bob Marley’s most deathless classics to edited Ramones backing tracks, it sounds like a joke on paper. The cover even […]

Co-founder of the vintage shop Round Two, designer of 2018’s most popular sneaker of the year, YouTube phenomenon, avid collector—Sean Wotherspoon may be all of these things, but this multi-hyphenate individual goes far beyond the accolades on his resume. While Wotherspoon may not fit the stereotypical mold of what’s considered to be an “artist,” his […]

We’re back with the latest AltPress Weekly. Every week, we highlight new things we want you to check out. We call attention to new songs and old hits, classic listens and fresh finds. We’ll also keep you up to date with the latest happenings at Alternative Press, along with the stories we keep coming back […]

1996: President Bill Clinton was squaring off against Kansas Sen. Bob Dole in a successful bid for a second term in the White House. On April 3, former math professor Ted Kaczynski was arrested in his remote Montana cabin, suspected (correctly, it turns out) to be American domestic terrorist the Unabomber. Conservative public policy bulwark […]

Back in February, Alternative Press hailed Pinkshift as one of 100 Artists You Need To Know. Now, vocalist Ashrita Kumar is expanding that list with 18 of her favorite emerging pop-punk-adjacent bands. It might not surprise you to learn that the Baltimore-based outfit’s influences are just as eclectic as their sound. In fact, Kumar is quick to note […]

The year 2021 stands out for, at the very least, two distinct reasons. One, we all simply could not wait for it to get here and to promptly put the horrific year that was 2020 in our collective rearview mirror. And, two, it’s the year that some of the best albums of the ’90s will […]

Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker are channeling your favorite zombie movies in their thrilling new video for “acting like that.” The latest collab is off of YUNGBLUD’s recently released album weird!. Read more: Glastonbury Festival isn’t happening in 2021 after all On Thursday, Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker finally unleashed their […]

If you thought you heard the last collaboration from Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker, think again. The trio has decided to surprise drop their new collab “Acting Like That” and it’s arriving sooner than you might think. Read more: It looks like Hayley Williams almost played for Bayley at WrestleMania 36 MGK, YUNGBLUD […]

In the ’90s, just after the tragic passing of Sublime’s Bradley Nowell, and years before the band reformed with Rome Ramirez as their frontman, it seemed that Long Beach Dub Allstars were everywhere. In fact, it was quite difficult to attend a rock festival date or a third-wave ska show without seeing at least three […]

Let’s face it: This year has been terrible on many levels, but one thing remains eternally awesome: dogs. Fortunately for us, the fourth week of September marks National Dog Week. Not only do we get to celebrate our furry friends at home, but we can also use this time to help out local pet shelters […]

Ska may be one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Many of its superfans have lived and died by the genre from the second they heard their first guitar upstroke, whereas some casual fans dug into it as a flavor of the week for a short amount of time and parted ways […]

Last week, fans that pre-ordered the revamped Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 got exclusive access to a short demo of the forthcoming game. One fan, however, decided to look around the demo’s source code and found evidence that Jack Black makes a cameo in the reboot. According to the post that was shared on Reddit, […]

The highly-anticipated revamped Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is just weeks away from its release. Now, Tony Hawk is explaining why the classic skate trick the “mute” air/grab is getting renamed in the new game. Read more: Hear YUNGBLUD and Denzel Curry tackle social injustices in “Lemonade” The mute air involves a skater to use […]

We’re less than a month away from the highly-anticipated release of the revamped Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2. On Friday, Aug. 14, the limited demo of the game is being released. Here’s how you can get your hands on the demo and what you can expect from it. Read more: There’s a reason […]

The foundation of the alternative-rock scene had already been leavened by the late ’80s. The boundaries between the underground and the mainstream started to fragment thanks to Nirvana‘s success. Sadly, that band came to a tragic end before the halfway point of the decade. Fortunately, there were many great bands from the late-’90s moving things […]