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 ...

Sitting on the floor, somewhere sunny in Tennessee, I ask a question I’ve asked artists before, though it’s reserved for those whose hearts are fixed to their sleeve, even when broken. “Do you think ...

Hayley Williams has announced more solo dates for 2026, dubbing them “The Hayley Williams Show.” The announcement arrives as Williams is about to wrap the first leg of the tour in support of last year ...

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 ...

But of course, ISELLA, an artist, songwriter and producer, a violinist, has been playing with the idea of discomfort for years. It’s present in her first viral songs like “The Doll People” and “Hot ...

On paper, hip-hop and metal shouldn’t work together — two polarizing genres with very different intentions and attitudes. However, thanks to a new wave of outfits in the late ‘90s and early 2000s ...

See our recap and photos from Inkcarceration 2026, featuring the Used, Poppy, Bad Omens, Limp Bizkit, Sleeping With Sirens, and more.

Post-punk had to happen. Punk rock opened all this space for people to make exactly the kind of art or culture that the disenfranchised had been imagining in their heads, and maybe had limited means ...

Heavy metal is most often viewed as a Westernized genre of music. While bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden get their fair share of credit for creating the genre, others in ...

If we could identify one incandescent moment to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it would have to be having large stretches of time to listen to albums. Yes, in 2020, most of us binged on Netflix ...

Slipknot appear on the cover of the Fall 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. April 27, 2024: It’s been a long time since Slipknot felt this ferocious. Before the glow-stick Las Vegas ...