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#203.2 - Warped Tour 2005

Transplants Underoath Finch The Unseen Alkaline Trio Millencolin Thrice Offspring Fall Out Boy Tsunami Bomb The Starting Line My Chemical Romance MXPX

#203.2 – April 2010

THIS GOES TO 11
There’s no stopping the Vans Warped Tour, and frankly, we like it that way. This month, we’ve amassed a Warped roundtable starring members of THE STARTING LINE, FALL OUT BOY, UNDEROATH, TSUNAMI BOMB, MxPX, TRANSPLANTS, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and OFFSPRING, all sharing their insights about the summer’s best tour. Plus, our editors suggest 11 bands you should check out this year, as well as tips on how to get in if you’re light in the wallet and how to survive it once you’re in.

PHOTO OP
Suitable-for-framing images of punks past (The Clash), present (Thursday, My Chemical Romance) and future (The Honorary Title).

IDOL WORSHIP
This month, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno professes his admiration for Ken Andrews, co-founder of Failure and Year Of The Rabbit. Could this be the beginning of a new creative collaboration?

THE ORAL HISTORY OF LIFETIME
You may not know who Lifetime are, but rest assured your favorite bands are operating under the influence of New Jersey’s finest. In this exclusive history of the band, Kyle Ryan talks to members of Lifetime, those who were around them during their existence, and others who were greatly influenced by them.

HOT, YET COOL: AP’S SUMMER PREVIEW
As if the threat of global warming weren’t enough, this summer’s excitement is going to drive the planet’s thermometers higher. We’ve got the lowdown on all the new albums, movie, tours and games that will make you forget about last year (unless you met your honey at Warped or in line buying Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge the week it came out).

FEATURES

MILLENCOLIN
The Swedish punk delegation have returned to whack you over the head with some ’wood.

FALL OUT BOY
Having received the admiration of their hometown and the underground, the men of FOB are headed for the next level, involving the domination of red and blue states, a surprise hip-hop mentorship and near-emotional collapse.

THE STARTING LINE
Forget that they’re finally getting to release their second album after three years of waiting; Philadelphia’s brightest emo hope are still trying to get their heads around the idea that people realize they’ve matured.

FINCH
What kind of screamo band takes three years to make a record? Ask Finch, who are slated to get their follow-up album released faster than Chinese Democracy.

THE UNSEEN
These decade-old street-punks will tell you that punk isn’t a job or an adventure. It’s life.

TEAM SLEEP
Most bands feel anguish when their record leaks onto the internet before its release. But Chino Moreno and Todd Wilkinson took their time tweaking it all over again to get it right-or at least in a condition they could live with.

ALKALINE TRIO
You love them now, and you loved them then. But Messrs. Skiba, Andriano and Grant want you to love them long after your discs have corroded and your tats have faded.

SECTIONS

INCOMING

OPINION
The AP Poll creates a (punk) police state, while Zombie Apocalypse frontman Ronen Kauffman breaks it down optimistically in this month’s AP Op-Ed.

NEW RELEASES/IN THE STUDIO
We gave New Releases a fresh coat of paint, so get the scoop on the newest discs from Days Away, Bane and more, then check out what From Autumn To Ashes, Minus The Bear and Built To Spill are doing In The Studio.

WIRETAPPING
The Briefing dishes the gossip; the eclectic Century Media family gets profiled; Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge gives the straight poop in his monthly advice column; mewithoutYou, the Dillinger Escape Plan, the Casualties and Steel Train and the Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower let us inside their gig bags-and heads; the All-American Rejects hunk Tyson Ritter chews the fat with our writer; Disclothesure unmasks Playdead Cult; we find out what’s new with the Epoxies and the Rocket Summer; AP has a hangover just thinking about our SXSW party wrap-up; and Plain White T’s, Circa Survive and Sinai Beach rock Low Profiles.

SCREENING
The men of Stella bone up for their new show on Comedy Central; Jared Padalecki knows the true meaning of “Wax on, wax off”; Victor Rasuk and Nikki Reed rule The Lords Of Dogtown; Eye Candy consults The O.C.’s Josh Schwartz on tips for making a Grammy-winning mix tape; and Now Showing places explosive detonators at the bottom of Loch Ness to blow cinematic Nessies out of theaters and DVD players this season.

REVIEWS
While the tools at your school are busy rocking out to the Hitch soundtrack, The AP Record Store is your key to getting no-holds-barred reviews on new jams from Fall Out Boy, Spitalfield, Maria Taylor, Death By Stereo, Kaiser Chiefs, Fantômas; In-Store Sessions with Sleater-Kinney and New Order; your daily rock-history lessons on Jethro Tull and D.O.A. in I Don’t Know, Ask That Guy and No, Seriously, Ask That Guy; and radical reissues and rarities in Collector’s Corner; plus, find out if there are any poseurs on our masthead in this month’s Listening Station.

10 Essential ALBUMS BY TORTURED ARTISTS
Since we already dissected Weezer on last month’s cover, this month we empathize with 10 other mad geniuses whose curious minds warped rock history for the better.