Last month, we asked our readers to tell us the best albums of 2026 so far. Their answers went long, spanning everything from Static Dress ’ injury episode to Tigers Jaw ’s Lost on You to Evanescence ...

Any musician involved in the most extreme forms of musical expression owes their existence and career to Black Flag. Beginning as a fairly standard-issue late ‘70s punk-rock band, sub-Ramones variety, ...

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Pierce The Veil returned from a five-year hiatus bigger than ever. 2016’s Misadventures had become an undisputed great in their time away from the stage, while their iconic breakout anthem “King for a ...

In her approach to almost everything, Ecca Vandal takes the idiosyncratic path. In spite of budget constraints, and with no one holding her hand, she’s tossed aside the tired map of how things should ...

The genre affectionately known as emo started out as a wave of internalized rage bubbling under the surface of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Summer in the mid-’80s. Within three decades, it had ...

TOBIAS FORGE IS CONCERNED. It’s Valentine’s Day in Pittsburgh, where Ghost are halfway through their co-headline tour with Volbeat, but the only love the Swedish mastermind is pining for is that of ...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alternative Press, we’re diving into our archive and unearthing past cover stories that represent milestone moments across the brand’s history. To kick things off, ...

The 2004 alternative music community turned out to be a pivotal moment in time for scene bands. As the two previous years set the foundation for the genre, it quickly expanded. Musicians started to ...

Clipse, John Legend, Voices of Fire, Pusha T & Malice – “The Birds Don’t Sing” ...

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Hardcore, when it first hit punk rock as the ‘70s gave way to the ‘80s, was intended as a corrective. The scene was in danger of being tamed into new-wave niceness, as the best remaining early bands ...