Alternative Press

3 days ago | altpress.com | Bill Pearis

AFI will be back on the road this fall for a U.S. tour with special guests TR/ST. Dates kick off Sept. 30 in Madison, Wisconsin and from there hits Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and more before wrapping Nov. 5 in San Diego, California. They’ll then head to Mexico City for the festival Corona Capital.

6 days ago | altpress.com | Mike Giegerich

Rob Cavallo has produced the who’s who of generational, turn-of-the-millennium rock albums: American Idiot, The Black Parade, and Brand New Eyes, to name a few. But when he first met and recorded with Los Angeles-via-Pittsburgh vocalist Keyawna Nikole, an artist who grew up idolizing the projects Cavallo produced, it was a revitalization of his earlier work’s punk spirit and led Nikole to find her self-proclaimed “hood alt” sound.

1 week ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

Retail Drugs, the tape-recording project helmed by NYC musician Jake Brooks, have announced their new album, rECKless dRIVing, which arrives Aug. 1 via Fire Talk Records imprint Angel Tapes. The record largely compiles B-sides and demos from theirreissued 2024 debut LP, i love you so !, into another off-kilter collection, telling stories of early adulthood through torrents of analog fuzz. That’s felt on previous singles “person A” and “euphoria,” as well as their latest.

1 week ago | altpress.com | Bill Pearis

Nourished by Time will release a new album, The Passionate Ones, later this summer, and he’s just shared the second single from it. He says “9 2 5” is about artists moving to big cities, and the balance between creativity and paying the rent. “You know he’s got a purpose/But he’s always working,” he sings over a groovy, ’80s-inspired beat. You can check out the lyric video below. Read more: Bowling with N8NOFACEThe Passionate Ones is out Aug.

1 week ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

Last year, Motion City Soundtrack released “Stop Talking,” their first new song in a decade, for the 2008-set coming-of-age film Dìdi. That track doesn’t appear on their forthcoming album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (out Sept. 17 via Epitaph Records), but it did embolden the band to return to the studio. Recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, the LP was produced by Sean O’Keefe, who worked on some of their early split seven-inches.