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Helen Earth Band - We Fucking Quit

Helen Earth Band We Fucking Quit Hopefully that star rating caught your attention, as Helen Earth Band have been mum for a handful of years. Their strategic, free-range rock holds many candles to like-minded titans like Minus The Bear and carries the forgotten flame of their San Diego kin, No Knife. HEB are a musical […]

Helen Earth Band - 'We F*cking Quit' (Album Premiere)

Helen Earth Band have teamed up with AP to premiere their sophomore album, We Fucking Quit, which follows 2010's Our Own Ghost City. Praised with four-and-a-half out of five stars in our latest issue, HEB's California-bred, colorful math rock stands tall aside likeminded artists such as Minus The Bear, Braid and Mock Orange. Youth Conspiracy Records, the […]

Meridian - The Cathedral

Meridian The Cathedral When Max Stern of Cleveland punks Signals Midwest wants to get sensitive, he recruits his younger brother Jake, a banjo and a whole stack of cute melodies, puts 'em together and gets Meridian. But unlike their 2012 debut Aging Truths, The Cathedral [released on AP managing editor Scott Heisel's Youth Conspiracy Records —full […]

Meridian (Youth Conspiracy Records) stream new album, ‘The Cathedral’

Meridian, the alt-rock project from Signals Midwest frontman Max Stern, are streaming their new album, The Cathedral, in full on Modern Vinyl. Meridan’s first release was 2012’s acoustic Aging Truths with Stern and his brother Jake. “Aging Truths was essentially a bedroom project Jake and I took into the studio and attempted to flesh out […]

Foreign Tongues - Glue EP

Foreign Tongues Glue EP How exactly does a relatively new band from Boston/New Hampshire turn out sounding like they could have shared a stage with Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr. during the heyday of grunge and alt-rock? That’s the question that might have to remain unanswered when listening to Foreign Tongues' new EP, Glue [released on […]

The Forecast - Everybody Left

The Forecast Everybody Left This review originally ran in AP 286. It’s genuinely befuddling that the Forecast aren’t absolutely huge. Over the course of three prior full-lengths, the Illinois band have preserved (and extended) the legacy of ’90s Midwestern emo, thanks to no-frills, heart-hitting songwriting. Sonically, their Kickstarter-funded, hook-filled fourth album, Everybody Left, picks up […]

Person L stream new song, "OK," announce split with Weatherbox

Person L and Weatherbox will be releasing a new split 7-inch on February 7 via Youth Conspiracy Records [a label run by AP music editor Scott Heisel —full disclosure ed.]. You can pre-order the vinyl here and listen to a new song from Person L titled “OK” here.

Weatherbox announce tour with Sainthood Reps, stream new EP

Weatherbox have announced the dates of their fall tour in support of their new EP, Follow The Rattle Of The Afghan Guitar, out Oct. 4 on Youth Conspiracy Records [a label run by AP music editor Scott Heisel —full disclosure ed.]. The majority of the shows will be alongside Tooth & Nail act Sainthood Reps. Dates: Fri […]