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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One standout feature of the early 2000s emo music scene was song titles that could barely fit on the back covers of CDs. You probably have fond memories of typing the lyrics of your new jam into the ...

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 ...

As with all of our other lists quantifying the greatest musicians in punk-rock history, it’s a fairly daunting task. On the surface, this is a back-to-basics musical style. Instrumental flash isn’t a ...

In the span of just two weeks, Quinn and Marsh entered the latter’s brand-new studio, and between welcomed breaks at local restaurants, transmuted Quinn’s notebook scrawlings into a collage of 10 ...

Hands down, the Smashing Pumpkins remain one of Chicago’s most essential musical exports, melding alt-rock, dream pop, and a gothic touch into a sound that exploded in — then later defined — the ’90s.

Starting off with “Sword,” I wrote this one with Alden [Gardner Robinson, aldn] and Gabe [Greeland] about seven months ago now, and I was trying to replicate the sound of the very first song that we ...

There’s still a lot of signature AAR throughlines on Sandbox — sarcasm, infectious hooks, and the same reckless drive that made people first fall in love with the band decades ago. Below, Tyson Ritter ...

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 ...

Artists can easily find themselves forced into a box, shaped by fan expectations or public assumptions about how they should sound. No matter how much some people want to break away from the norm, ...