You know when Oscars season hits and suddenly it’s the only thing anyone can talk about? That’s how we feel about the first Gibson Brands Alternative Press Music Awards – Fueled by Monster Energy Drink. With less than two weeks left until the awards show makes its July 21st debut, at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we’ve all been picking our favorites and placing our bets—which is exactly what this show is all about.
Yeah, we get it — hating everything your parents love is a rite of passage growing up. But every once in a while, you have to admit when they’ve gotten it right.
It’s a struggle most of us have experienced with our families, at least to some degree — the parents think the kids’ music is unlistenable garbage, and the kids think their parents’ music was recorded by the first dinosaurs to ever hold guitars. But when you find those rare few bands that occupy the middle ground between everyone’s tastes, it’s a special moment that brings the family together way better than getting a pet fish ever could.
Get Involved! are a veritable post hardcore supergroup, with members having spent time in some of the genre’s most legendary bands — bands like Glassjaw, Thursday, and From Autumn To Ashes. But one act you might not expect to find on their shared resume is British boy band The Wanted.
They might be from a pretty chilly part of the world, but Vancouver-based band Hedley are bringing the message we’ve all been waiting for: summer is coming.
There’s nothing quite like the feel of summer, and wherever the GPS takes you in the coming months, we’ve compiled our ultimate summer road trip playlists for you in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
The Menzingers have been exponentially improving as a band since the beginning, and their new album Rented World only marks another spike in that trend.
From the early pioneers of female badassery to those carrying that torch in 2014, find out who we chose for our list of the leading ladies of alternative — and why.
In this week’s Tuesday Ten, our staff share some of their guiltiest guilty pleasures and try to figure out exactly how these songs manage to be terrible and irresistible at the same time.
Washington, DC – April 16, 2014 — The 2014 Vans Warped Tour Presented by Journeys will get a signal boost from idobi Network when the two team-up for all new programming with Warped idobi Radio (WiR). Now entering its 20th year, Vans Warped Tour is America’s longest running concert festival tour, and is known for introducing the next big artists. From No Doubt to Katy Perry, Blink-182 to All Time Low, My Chemical Romance to Eminem, fans saw them first on Warped. idobi Network is the perfect partner to Vans Warped Tour. For fifteen years and running, idobi has consistently… Read more »
