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Track By Track: Pianos Become The Teeth
Pianos Become The Teeth vocalist Kyle Durfey walks us through the band's new album, The Lack Long After: “I'll Be Damned” When we first started writing this song, it was actually one of the more poppy things we had ever written and it seemed to flow pretty well right from the get-go. We all agreed […]
Track By Track: Banner Pilot
BANNER PILOT take us track by track through their new album, Heart Beats Pacific. “Alchemy” This is one of the older songs on the album, and it didn’t change much from inception to recording, unlike most of the other tracks here which went through a slew of different iterations before landing in their final forms. […]
Track By Track: A Loss For Words
A LOSS FOR WORDS take us track by track through their new album, No Sanctuary. “Honeymoon Eyes” This song is about obsession and addiction. Young people are still pushed with the idea that you can’t be a fulfilled person in life without a loving marriage, living in a house with a white-picket fence, bringing up […]
Track By Track: This Is Hell
THIS IS HELL guitarist Rick Jimenez takes AP track by track through their latest album, Black Mass. “Acid Rain” Too many people go through life making blind assumptions and bold statements based on hearsay and ignorance. I wrote this song about two separate instances that coincided thematically because they were cases of people throwing around […]
Track By Track: blessthefall
(Photo: Tim Harmon) BLESSTHEFALL frontman BEAU BOKAN takes AP track by track through their new album, Awakening. “Awakening” We wanted to write something epic. Something simple for everyone to sing along to, an epic battle cry. This is it. “Promised Ones” This song was supposed to be the first track on the album before we […]
Track By Track: New Found Glory
NEW FOUND GLORY drummer CYRUS BOLOOKI takes us track by track through the band’s new album, Radiosurgery. “Radiosurgery” The first track on the album, this song is a nice summary—both musically and lyrically—of the record as a whole. The song is basically about someone starting to go crazy after experiencing a breakup. “Anthem For The […]
Track By Track: Lydia
Leighton Antelman takes AP track by track through Lydia’s new album, Paint It Golden. “Hailey” This song was probably half way done when I brought it into the studio. For some reason, with most every song I do, I like to finish it “in the studio.” I very rarely “finish” a song before actually tracking […]
Track By Track: Cobra Skulls
COBRA SKULLS vocalist/bassist DEVIN
PERALTA tells the stories behind each song on the band’s new EP, Bringing The War Home, which drops today on Fat Wreck Chords. Doomsday Parade This song is basically about how human beings are destroying the planet and how whistle blowers, environmentalists and proponents of “green technology” (like myself) won't really change […]
Track By Track: This Time Next Year
Vocalist/lyricist PETE DOWDALLS takes AP track by track through THIS TIME NEXT YEAR’S new album, Drop Out Of Life. “Drop Out of Life” This song ended up being the first song we wrote for Drop Out Of Life. Denis [Cohen, guitarist] and I had been jamming out riffs and making up vocal melodies in the […]
Track By Track: Man Overboard
(Photo: Emily Ibarra) The members of Man Overboard take AP track by track through their self-titled album, which is out tomorrow via Rise Records. “Rare” (Zac Eisenstein) “Rare” was always the song that blew our minds most, probably because we never played anything that fast in Man Overboard before. I think it was interesting to […]
Track By Track: The Devil Wears Prada
 Vocalist MIKE HRANICA tells the stories behind each song on THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA’s Zombie EP. Escape “Escape” was the first song we came up with when we had the idea to do the EP. We got in touch with management and the label, and we were like, “Okay, let’s come up with a […]
Track By Track: Run For Cover Records' "Mixed Signals" compilation
The bands (save for the Menzingers, who were on tour and unreachable) on RUN FOR COVER RECORDS’ new compilation, Mixed Signals, discuss the inspiration between their contributions to the album. Don’t forget to read AP’s four-star review of the album here! POLAR BEAR CLUB: “Killin' It” Jimmy Stadt (vocals): We chose “Killin It” for the […]
Track By Track/Exclusive Stream: Oh, Sleeper
OH, SLEEPER guitarist SHANE BLAY takes AP track by track through his band’s new album, Children Of Fire. While you’re reading, check out an exclusive stream of their new song, “The Marriage Of Steel And Skin.” “EndSeekers” Oddly, this song was one of the last to be written, but the first to be recorded. Typically, […]
Track By Track: Tommy Stinson
(Photo: Steven Cohen) TOMMY STINSON, bassist for scrappy American rock institution the Replacements and low-end holder for Guns ’N’ Roses and Soul Asylum, takes AP through One Man Mutiny, his new solo album, released on his own label, Done To Death Music. “Don't Deserve You” As I sat down to write and demo this song, […]
Track By Track: Stray From The Path
Guitarist Tom Williams, drummer Dan Bourke and vocalist Drew York from Stray From The Path take AP track by track through their new album, Rising Sun. “Rising Sun” The theme behind our last album, Make Your Own History, was our logo, the black flag with the lighthouse, trying to shine a light on this dark […]
Track By Track: Trivium
Vocalist/guitarist MATT HEAFY takes AP track by track through the new TRIVIUM album, In Waves. “Capsizing The Sea” This track was built off the bridge guitar riff of the middle of “In Waves.” One day, [bassist] Paolo [Gregoletto] mentioned that I should record that bridge section, on a clean tone, onto a new blank track. […]
Track By Track: Every Avenue
(Photo by: Gene Smirnov) EVERY AVENUE frontman DAVE STRAUCHMAN takes AP track by track through the band’s third album, Bad Habits. “Tie Me Down” We have all been used by people—or, possibly, used them. Some people are just bad for you, but we push that aside because we settle for the temporary feelings we get […]
Track By Track: Greeley Estates
Lead vocalist RYAN ZIMMERMAN takes us track by track through GREELEY ESTATES’ new album, The Death Of Greeley Estates. “Straitjacket” We thought this song was a perfect intro to the record, since it has such a build-up in the beginning. It’s also the perfect song coming off our last record, No Rain, No Rainbow, because […]
Track By Track: Isis
Photo: Robin Laananen Keyboardist/guitarist BRYANT CLIFFORD MEYER takes AP track by track through ISIS’ posthumous live release, ISIS Live V 07/23.06, which comes out July 26. Stay tuned to altpress.com tomorrow to hear an exclusive stream of the album. “The Beginning And The End” That opening loop thing is from some Olivier Messiaen piece. We […]
Track By Track: Breathe Carolina
BREATHE CAROLINA's Kyle Even takes AP track by track through their new album, Hell Is What You Make It, which is out now. “Rebirth: An Introduction” This is the intro track for Hell Is What You Make It. This track comes full circle at the end of the album, as it has the same […]
