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Riot Fest is a yearly highlight. This year's performers reflect on their favorite memories from the festival, and relive the event with our photo gallery.

For Steve Caballero, the intersection of punk and skateboarding has always been at the forefront of what he does and creates for the world. Caballero burst onto the skateboarding scene in the groundbreaking years of the early ’80s and ’90s, skating alongside the sport’s most iconic figures while living in Southern California during its renaissance period, where punk rock was at its most prolific

Bayside have announced the 21 Years Of Bad Luck tour, with a setlist culled from across the band’s career. Originally set to kick off in 2020, the event will commemorate the group’s first two decades as well as the release of their ninth full-length album, Interrobang. The tou...

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...

If you've ever been trolled online with hateful comments and reviews, chances are you didn't handle it the same way Liquid Death Mountain Water did. Liquid Death is the most metal water brand you may ever come across. With branding featuring skull illustrations, death-metal script and taglines including "Death To Plastic" and "Murder Your Thirst," they seek "to make people

Are you dreaming about leaving your hometown? Sure you are. Because pop-punk kids have felt self-isolated long before the pandemic. All the shows are canceled, and there’s nothing else to do, so there’s no better time to order in an unhealthy amount of pizza, reminisce about Warped Tour and dust off that Fender or Gibson you’ve been neglecting to learn some genre classics.  These tracks... Read Mo

We’re all stuck inside at the mercy of microbes. Except for Fat Mike, frontman for punk lifers NOFX and co-owner of Fat Wreck Chords. Last week, Mike brought some new NOFX tracks into the world. The first was a video for a new song, “I Love You More Than I Hate Me,” which featured all the members of the band in various stages of self-harm while a party of younger, cooler, prettier punks acts like

Los Angeles-based buzzsaw pop-punks the Bombpops are ready to own you, your devices and 2020. Today, AltPress is premiering the video for “Double Arrows Down,” the next track from their second album, Death In Venice Beach. Is it cool? Overwhelmi...

Christmas is a joyous time for many, from spending time with family to binge-watching holiday flicks. While many festive tracks are equally as happy, that’s not to say a handful won’t have you shedding a tear. We asked 13 of your favorite bands to share which holiday tune they find the saddest. Check out ...

To celebrate Thanksgiving 2018, we reached out to a bunch of our favorite artists and asked them which album they’re most thankful for. So, which band loves country singer Kacey Musgraves? And which former AP cover star is thankful for Eminem’s surprise full-length? Read on to...

It’s Halloween, and bands have plenty of spooky stories to share. Whether it’s a real-life haunted house, a prank that went too far or a really strange church function, these musicians have witnessed some pretty freaky stuff. We asked a few artists to share the scariest thing that’s ever happened to them, and things got chilling. Read more: Sata... Read More ...

These 18 artists prove that not only is punk NOT Dead in 2018, it's very much alive and ready to fill your head with four chords and the truth. From the legendary Against Me! to the power drill of a punk band, PEARS, this list has the sweetest of sweet punk-pop and the dirtiest, noisiest bands who are currently giving you tinnitus in style and making you get sweaty in every punk club the world ove

Punk-rockers the Bombpops are premiering the Ed Sullivan Show-inspired video for new track "Be Sweet"—exclusively on AP. The song pays tribute to the late Teenage Bottlerocket drummer Brandon Carlisle who tragically died in late 2015. “'Be Sweet' i ...

SoCal punk quartet the Bombpops are eager to get their debut full-length Fear Of Missing Out out into the world.  Formed in 2007 by co-frontwomen Jen Razavi and Poli van Dam, the Bombpops established themselves with two EPs on Red Scare Industries. Now they've r ...