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Success hasn’t followed a straight line for Jutes. In nearly every industry, success at a young age is heralded and celebrated — whether it’s “20 under 20” lists or overnight success stories. However, his road has looked a little different. At times, he questioned whether his breakthrough would ever come, and at others, he nearly walked away altogether. At 35, after years of navigating self-doubt, personal struggles, and uncertainty, he’s finding both his audience and his stride. Now, with th

Last night, Boston hardcore band Haywire played a short-but-sweet pop-up show in NYC’s Times Square. Teasing it on Instagram with a location and coordinates, they gave fans an hour’s notice about the set. Within 30 minutes, hundreds of people were ready to catch the performance. Read more: In conversation with Scowl and Frank Iero Dimitry Mak Only after a song-and-a-half, the NYPD ended the show and confiscated the band’s equipment. Despite the shutdown, Haywire were able to play “F

Welcome to Rockville has announced the full lineup for its 2027 edition. blink-182, Korn, Pierce the Veil, and Bad Omens will headline across the festival’s four days, which take place from May 6-9, 2027 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Read more: AP teams with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry for new zine Good Charlotte, Boys Like Girls, Knocked Loose, I Prevail, Dashboard Confessional, President, Hot Mulligan, Rico Nasty, and tons more will play the festi

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 announced a 2027 world tour, in support of their new album, ZIRP!, that’s out tomorrow (Oct. 30). The 47-date run includes festival appearances in Australia and Japan before hitting North America, Europe, and the U.K.. On Friday, they’ll also play an album release show at the Pop Crypt Cube in Los Angeles. Read more: DIIV’s essential minimal, ambient electr

Heartbreak is a fickle thing. It can sound like a quiet hum one minute, and the next it can thrash in your mind like a wall of distortion. On a Monday night in Toronto, Olivia Rodrigo played both like she’s been waiting her whole life to. Though she was primed to be a pop star, her instincts are grittier, and on the latest stop of her Unraveled tour, she argues that the line between pop and alt-rock has always been thin. In two hours, Rodrigo delivered a powerful 24-song set, including older

Alternative Press teamed up with Destroy Boys for an exclusive vinyl of FOIE GRAS, limited to 250. Head to the AP Shop to grab yours. Destroy Boys have announced their 2027 North American headline tour.  The run will coincide with their forthcoming album, FOIE GRAS, which is out March 5 via Epitaph, and will include opening acts illuminati hotties and the Rat Utopia Experiment. Read more: Destroy Boys: Scream with me “I’m so stoked for this tour and to be able to play songs from the

Turnstile played a massive benefit show on the National Lawn in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to raise money for Human Concern International, which delivers life-saving aid to families in Gaza, Sudan, and Lebanon. Over 60,000 people packed onto the lawn to see the Baltimore hardcore band, who initially set a goal of raising $150,000. So far, according to the band’s LaunchGood page, they’ve raised over $260,000.  Read more: Watch Turnstile make their Saturday Night Live debut Harrison Web

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

Saturday Night Live has released the next set of musical guests for November.  Druski will host the first week of November with the Strokes performing for the fifth time, and Phoebe Bridgers will return to the stage — following her famous guitar smash during “I Know the End” in 2021 — the next week with John Mulaney hosting.  Read more: Watch Turnstile make their Saturday Night Live debut Rounding out the musical guests for the month is Gracie Abrams, who will perform on Halloween with

Haywire have announced a massive 2027 headline tour. The tour, in support of their latest LP, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye, will bring them across North America, the U.K., and Europe in just four months, playing 80 shows.  Read more: Watch Haywire cover Trapped Under Ice’s “Pleased to Meet You” in Baltimore The U.K. run will start at the beginning of 2027. Then the North American leg starts in February at Louisville’s LDB Fest before playing across the U.S. and Canada through to the end of

Today, #Vymara, a found-footage horror comedy, premieres globally on Veeps. The broadcast, featuring a Q&A with creators Chris Kiely, Yourmovie_guy412, and Wendigoon, follows the film going wide across theaters this week. Read more: Creeper’s 13 favorite horror movies Written and directed by Paul Bukoskey, #Vymara is about four washed-up content creators, including a manosphere conspiracist, a comedian, a fashion influencer, and a true-crime podcaster, who livestream their search fo

Sonic Temple has released the lineup for next year’s festival, happening May 13-16 in Columbus, Ohio. blink-182, Iron Maiden, Falling in Reverse, and Korn will headline the festival. The first day will include sets from Turnstile, Knocked Loose, the Paradox, Sleeping With Sirens, and tons more. Read more: AP teams with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry for new zine On Friday, May 14, the Pretty Reckless, the Warning, Sleep Theory, Loathe, South Arcade, and others will take the stage, and a

When AP caught up with Niis (pronounced “nice”) last month, they were getting ready to announce their new Play Niis EP — written during a period of heartbreak that challenged them to add more softness to their scorching punk. We turned that conversation into a limited-edition zine, filled with photos from the AP shoot. Grab a copy when they play inside Nudie Jeans’ Repair Shop at 188 Bowery in NYC tomorrow, presented by Nudie Jeans and Alternative Press. Support is rounded out by a trio of un

Cloud Nothings have announced their new album, What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?, out Jan. 29 via Pure Noise Records. What Kind of Hell Did You Survive? draws on the heaviness of Queens of the Stone Age, Motörhead, and others, reflecting the band’s desire to break away from their indie-rock identity and explore a denser sound.  “The album is our attempt to pay homage to the heavy rock music we’ve been listening to over the last few years,” vocalist Dylan Baldi says. “We were feeling

Lambrini Girls are previewing their upcoming album, No Refunds, with two singles, “The Basement” and “Spilt.”  On “The Basement”, they explore the digital spaces that draw disillusioned men into increasingly reactionary ideologies, describing the song as the story of “a sad little man who gets radicalized by the manosphere.”  Read more: The Lambrini Girls effect “Split” is a stark contrast — a fully acoustic track reflecting on alcohol dependency. “It was exciting and challenging to do

One Step Closer have announced their new album, Zero, out Feb. 19 via Run For Cover. “This may have been the hardest year for us, and that’s reflected in the songs,” vocalist Ryan Savitski says of the LP. “There’s so much desperation on this record, but I think people can relate to that — these songs will always mean something different to me than everyone else. No one is living the same exact experiences, but I want people to take these songs and mold them to fit their own.”  Read mo

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

“I listened to the Replacements a lot and was thinking about how much of a role alcohol played in that band,” Ben Funkhouser (aka fish narc) says, taking me back to the bleary days of GothBoiClique — a collective of MCs and producers who infused SoundCloud rap with 2000s mallcore. “When I was drinking a lot, I was trying to justify it, being like, ‘Oh, well, it’s part of the history of music.’ My favorite bands are pathetic drunks who fucked everything up. You listen to their later stuff and hea

The Smashing Pumpkins have released “Black Stars,” a new song included on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Announcing the track on Instagram, they said they are “grateful to be casting our spell” on the upcoming film’s soundtrack. Most notably, “Black Stars” marks a reunion between the Smashing Pumpkins and Butch Vig, who produced two of their early albums — 1991’s Gish and 1993’s Siamese Dream. Earlier this year, vocalist Billy Corgan teased on a livestream that t

Since late September, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry have been tearing through cities on their joint Hive Mind tour. Night after night, they’ve turned rooms into a tangle of bodies, especially when Curry jumps back onstage to sing its namesake with the Louisville hardcore greats. In the midst of the run, Alternative Press has teamed up with the duo for a special-edition zine that celebrates this very moment. Read more: The state of hardcore with H2O’s Toby Morse and Shapel Lacey Each bring