As much as we love celebrating milestone anniversaries and examining the past, it’s just as important to look forward. Like last year, we spent time compiling the most exciting rising artists that are ...

Alternative Press teamed up with Rise Against for exclusive vinyl of Ricochet, limited to 500 copies. Head to the AP Shop to grab yours. Formed in 1999 from the ashes of snarling rock band 88 Fingers ...

Post-hardcore broke out as a movement in a huge way during the first decade of the 2000s while shaping how people view the genre today. Countless others had pioneered the genre throughout the ’80s and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

No doubt aware of the gravity of the moment, returning co-founder Tom DeLonge marked the occasion by amending the end of the classic Enema of the State track’s first verse during Weekend 1 of the ...

Pop punk began to rapidly gain traction in the early 2000s, landing impressive spots on mainstream charts that propelled the success of the genre today. This transformative period uncovered legendary ...

Grab our limited-edition AP x Thursday fan bundle, featuring a repress of No Devolución, custom poster/zine, stickers, and pillow. Only at the AP Shop. We’ve been in this beige room all morning. The ...

The inclusion of moriondo’s girlfriend in her work, and the direct references to loving women in her songs, are a radical and exciting sign of just how far we’ve come. It’s important to moriondo on a ...

“I will never forget this,” Radwimps vocalist Yojiro Noda tells the rapt audience at New York’s Palladium Times Square theater. It’s the last night of the Japanese rock band’s sold-out North American ...

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 ...