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Saves The Day have released their new single, “Invader.”  The track, which is their first release in eight years, features guest vocals from Quicksand’s Walter Schreifels and positions itself as a spiritual successor to “Disengage” by Youth of Today. Read more: Backstage with Geoff Rickly, Keith Buckley, and Walter Schreifels “It was a dream to work on ‘Invader’ together with our hero Walter Schreifels at his studio in Upstate New York, and we’re still pinching ourselves that he co

Julia Wolf has released her new single, “lamb,” featuring guest vocals from Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn.  On the track, Wolf reflects on giving yourself completely to another person while facing the uncertainty of whether they will comfort or break you. Read more: How rising, “gothic babe” indie-pop star Julia Wolf almost left music behind for an Italian pizza shop “After listening to Kellin’s music for so long, and always feeling inspired by his voice and the sonic world h

Philly hardcore greats Soul Glo will release their new album, NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT, early next year, arriving Jan. 15 via Epitaph. The follow-up to 2022’s Diaspora Problems was recorded at Foto Club in their hometown, with vocalist Pierce Jordan dedicating it to “everyone who has known the joy and pain of loving a man. All different types of love: platonic, romantic, familial, self.” With it comes a stacked list of features that emphasizes their community-minded ethos. That includes their Ph

Connection is at the core of everything Niis do. Since forming in Los Angeles in 2020, vocalist Mimi Doe and guitarist Ryan McGuffin have created a discography that combines rage, uncertainty, and confrontation into something communal. On their new EP, Play Niis, which was announced today, that connection takes on a different shape. Written during a period of heartbreak, upheaval, and major personal change, the six-song EP finds Niis learning to balance vulnerability without sacrificing the v

Welcome to AP A-sides, where we’re highlighting the very best songs from the past week. Every Friday, the AP editors will wade through the daunting number of tracks released daily, narrow down their favorites, and give them to you in one playlist. Because the definition of alternative is constantly in flux, there are no rigid parameters to our selections — just tracks we’re obsessively talking about and listening to on repeat. This week’s playlist features artists diverse in genre but singular i

La Dispute have released Audiotree From Nothing, their first Audiotree session in 14 years.  The live recording includes songs from No One Was Driving The Car, including “Man With Hands and Ankles Bound,” “Sibling Fist Fights at Mom’s Fiftieth / The Un-Sound,” “Landlord Calls the Sheriff In,” and “I Dreamt of a Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In.” Read more: La Dispute’s cinematic universe “One year now since No One came out and no further along understanding how to feel or tal

Chat Pile’s catalog runs tandem with an onslaught of debilitating feelings — despair, revolt, the total horror of looking at a burning world. But when they caught up with AP in 2024, they boiled it down to an acutely simple ethos: It’s music meant to get the room moving. “There’s all this talk about, ‘Oh, Chat Pile are these harrowing nightmare dystopia grim suicide music,’” bassist Stin pointed out. “Well, we also fucking rock. You can mosh to these songs, and you can nod your head along, but n

Alternative Press teamed up with DIIV for an exclusive vinyl of ZIRP!, limited to 500. Head to the AP Shop to grab yours. DIIV have released “Kid,” the second track from their forthcoming album, ZIRP!, out later this fall. Accompanying the song is a POV-style video directed by Jaxon Whittington and filmed by vocalist Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian, capturing the band as they perform alongside their toys and action figures. Read more: DIIV’s essential minimal, ambient

This is Tour Diary, where artists give us a behind-the-scenes look at life on the road. All year long, Momma have been riding the high of 2025’s Welcome to My Blue Sky, a deeply hooky, coming-of-age album that peers into heartbreak, touring life, and friendship. During its promotional cycle, vocalist/guitarist Allegra Weingarten told an interviewer, “I think we just got better at songwriting. I’m trying to deflect a lot of the assumptions that we sat down and were like, ‘We’re going to make a po

Alternative Press teamed up with Spanish Love Songs for an exclusive vinyl of Future Nausea with a signed insert, limited to 250. Head to the AP Shop to grab yours. Spanish Love Songs have announced Future Nausea, their fifth LP, out Nov. 6 via Pure Noise.  Future Nausea takes heartland rock, which has traditionally leaned on nostalgia and idealization of American life, and explores vocalist Dylan Slocum’s personal anxieties and the bleak world we’re living in. Detailing the lead single, t

Rev3rent have announced their debut album, She Let The World Run Rampant, out Oct. 30 via their new label, Deep Love Recordings. The LP, produced by Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose, Motionless in White), explores grief, heartbreak, and buried inner darkness. The MySpace-era deathcore album is previewed today by the title track. “I want to be able to help people with the music, not just play for them,” vocalist Josh Bailey Guard says. “Help people have fun and get out of their heads. Because the worl

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have returned with their new live album, Hidden In Pieces Live at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s out today, with the deluxe and physical versions arriving Oct. 23 via Secretly Canadian. The album was created out of a desire for the band to reconnect with their fans following the 2025 election. Recorded during their intimate European tour, their show at the Royal Albert Hall was the first time they performed at the historic venue — noting that they “felt the spirits of all legends

By the time Slow Fiction played “bottle episode” at Cleveland’s Grog Shop in late August, they’d completely won me over. Their singer Julia Vassallo was vulnerable and unhurried, recalling addiction, misunderstanding, and unraveling in a low cool. The rest of the band — guitarists Paul Knepple and Joseph Skimmons, bassist Ryan Duffin, and drummer Akiva Henig — became another voice, contrasting her tone with a swirl of dense, hazy noise. All last month, the NYC five-piece opened for Swervedriv

Dazy has announced MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2: 24 Songs From 2023-2026, out Oct. 23 via Lame-O Records. The collection will feature his singles and EPs over the past three years, in addition to seven new songs.  “Even though Dazy doesn’t sound like typical lone singer-songwriter stuff, I started to accept that it’s a solo project and understand what that actually means to me,” he says. “Writing songs is how I process my life in real time — it’s not something that I only tap into in the cont

Welcome to AP A-sides, where we’re highlighting the very best songs from the past week. Every Friday, the AP editors will wade through the daunting number of tracks released daily, narrow down their favorites, and give them to you in one playlist. Because the definition of alternative is constantly in flux, there are no rigid parameters to our selections — just tracks we’re obsessively talking about and listening to on repeat. This week’s playlist features artists diverse in genre but singular i

The Warning have released their new album, Everything’s Falling.  Their fifth LP is about learning to lean into uncertainty and embrace setbacks and difficult moments, which are inevitable and will help you grow.  Read more: 26 of the most exciting rising artists to watch in 2026 “We’ve grown so much over the past few years, not just as musicians, but as people,” the band said earlier this year when they announced the record. “This album reflects everything we’ve experienced, the l

Nirvana appeared on the cover of AP in early 1992, taking us into their world just as they were rupturing the mainstream with Nevermind. Though steeped in belonging, disillusionment, and a desire for realness, writer Susan Rees pointed out that love was a lyrical theme Kurt Cobain kept returning to. “Love’s the most important thing,” he said at the time. “I can’t stand political lyrics — they’re so obvious. There should be a cryptic element to rock ’n’ roll so you can’t quite figure it out.”

Superfan has announced his new album, My Piledriver Heart, out Oct. 16 via AD 93. Detailing the release on Instagram, vocalist Kali Priya Flanagan described the LP as “10 heart-pounding movements of ontology” and noted that he worked with Omeed Almassi, who’s a cellist as well as Flanagan’s bandmate, best friend, and cousin.   Read more: The rebirth of Superfan “This time around, it was about being myself versus becoming myself,” he says. “This album centers around acknowledgm

This is Tour Diary, where artists give us a behind-the-scenes look at life on the road. At the top of the year, we called South Arcade a band to watch for their intriguing blend of Y2K mallcore, which owes as much to Avril Lavigne as to Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. (They even named their 2024 debut EP 2005, and their look isn’t unlike Deftones in the pages of AP in the early 2000s.) However, the Oxford up-and-comers don’t just saturate their sound in nostalgia — South Arcade pay homage while gui

Queens of the Stone Age have announced their ninth studio album, Perfecth, which arrives Oct. 30 via Matador Records. Alongside the announcement, the band shared the wavy, desert-singed single “Insignificant Other.” Read more: Bambara’s reincarnation “It’s a song about distance,” says frontman Josh Homme. “About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that.” Produced by Homme and bassist Michael Shuman