Any musician involved in the most extreme forms of musical expression owes their existence and career to Black Flag. Beginning as a fairly standard-issue late ‘70s punk-rock band, sub-Ramones variety, ...

Last month, we asked our readers to tell us the best albums of 2026 so far. Their answers went long, spanning everything from Static Dress ’ injury episode to Tigers Jaw ’s Lost on You to Evanescence ...

Check out our picks below, and stay informed about everything coming out in June with our monthly album release calendar.

In her approach to almost everything, Ecca Vandal takes the idiosyncratic path. In spite of budget constraints, and with no one holding her hand, she’s tossed aside the tired map of how things should ...

Hell, once Nirvana even dug deep into the ’60s and came up with “Seasons In The Sun,” a heartbreaking dirge that topped the charts for one-hit wonder Terry Jacks, and actually makes sense that the ...

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 ...

TOBIAS FORGE IS CONCERNED. It’s Valentine’s Day in Pittsburgh, where Ghost are halfway through their co-headline tour with Volbeat, but the only love the Swedish mastermind is pining for is that of ...

YHWH Nailgun, the experimental Brooklyn band that we just named one of the most exciting rising artists to watch in 2025, have just announced their debut album, 45 Pounds. It features their three most ...

Maya Hawke appears on the cover of the Summer 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. American Buddhist author and activist Robert A.F. Thurman once said, “When all is lost, when all is let ...

Ann Arbor-born Deniz Tek arrived at Sydney’s University of New South Wales in 1972 to study medicine. He became the local high priest of American underground rock, asserting his vision on local hard ...

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 ...

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