hip-hop

Westside Gunn are fresh off of their latest album, 10. The rapper discusses enlisting all-star collaborations, Griselda Records and his full-circle moment.

Rolling Loud California has revealed its 2023 lineup. The three-day event will include performances from Future, Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Jeleel! and more.

NNAMDÏ creates an electrifying community. On his new album Please Have a Seat, he continues to challenge the binaries of pop music by reinventing its every edge.

Blazzy transforms everyday objects into bold artistic statements. With his “Say No To Fentanyl” T-shirt, the designer is championing awareness and safety.

TITUS is capturing the magic of turn-of-the-millennium music. Fusing elements of Y2K pop punk and hip-hop, the artist explores his influences and what’s next.

It’s another new month, which means it’s time for the next issue of Alternative Press. We’re thrilled to present our April issue (#405) with cover star, and hip-hop trailblazer, Denzel Curry. Check out a preview of the story below. Within the pages of the new issue, Curry is joined by a slew of exciting artists, […]

Shinigami and Billy Martin of Good Charlotte have released the new single “Rampage.” Alternative Press is bringing you the song’s debut. In addition, Shinigami is announcing his forthcoming EP bioMACHiNA. The release is due April 22 in partnership with Version III. Read more: “People like listening to me being horribly in pain”: the oral history […]

Sky Katz enters the pop-punk arena with “Breakup Song.” The track was co-written and executive produced by Good Charlotte‘s Joel Madden and captures the 17-year-old musician’s first heartbreak. Read more: Zeph explains why she doesn’t enter a new year expecting anything—interview “I’m usually a really outgoing and fun person but after my breakup, I felt so […]

If you name something, visualize it, really want it, you can will it into existence, set it off on the path to greatness. Such is the case with BLACKSTARKIDS — a trio whose name only scrapes the surface of their ambition. In the last two years alone, they’ve released three records, embarked on North American […]

“It’s been an all right year,” DE’WAYNE says. The genre-bending artist released his debut record, STAINS, an explosive combination of punk, hip-hop and pop, in June. For DE’WAYNE, it wasn’t just the powerful start of a new era but also a chance for him to cross a childhood goal — releasing an album by the […]

Denzel Curry has released the lead single, “Walkin,” from his forthcoming album Melt My Eyez See Your Future. A sci-fi Western music video accompanies the track. Curry also announced a lengthy tour that will lead him across North America and Europe. Read more: Charlotte Sands releases her second EP ‘Love And Other Lies’ –listen The […]

As the new century’s first decade unwound, things evolved or deteriorated rapidly, depending on your perspective. The entire world was changing in every aspect. So of course, punk rock was gonna change with it. The fundamentalists would scream and moan about how these changes weren’t punk at all, that we needed to go back to […]

You could argue that blink-182 are one of the major reasons why pop punk exploded into the mainstream in the 2000s. Following Green Day’s release of Dookie in ‘94 and Weezer’s nerd-positive brand of rock, blink were the reason a lot of kids wanted to pick up guitars. It was through TRL hits such as […]

2022 is finally here. A new year is always packed full of potential, offering both a chance to start over and an opportunity to continue building on past success. Enter 22 in ‘22. We’re kicking off the new year with issue 402, showcasing 22 of the bands and musicians who are poised to have a […]

AP Gallery explores the visual culture of the music we know and love. Each month, we connect with photographers, directors and other creatives who shape music from behind the scenes. With each issue, we explore the stories behind the shoots and take deep dives into the most compelling media, asking about the creative visions as […]

As long as there’s been a punk scene, its denizens have argued as to which city invented it — New York or London? Truth be told, it was neither because history’s first proper punk band was the Stooges from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Which would make Detroit punk’s proper birthplace. But if much of the sound […]

Controlled chaos is a mentality that Kid Bookie brings to his day-to-day life just as much as his metal-laced hip-hop. At the beginning of the interview, Kid Bookie politely asks if he can light up a spliff after breaking a tooth onstage a few days prior. He was performing a cover of “Creep” by Radiohead, […]

twenty one pilots appeared on the cover of Alternative Press issue #400. During the conversation, the band discussed their Ohio roots and why they have such a deep connection with their fans. Our twenty one pilots interview also saw them explore their newest album Scaled And Icy and their deeper artistic goals. Columbus is situated […]

One of punk rock’s original goals was “the destruction of rock ‘n’ roll.” While that didn’t happen, most early punk musicians were rock fans, in spite of their espoused rhetoric. Hence why most early pogo soundtracks were basically Chuck Berry with a Marshall amp. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But this is hardly […]

At this point, you could practically write a textbook on the art of creating a pop-punk song. Ever since people discovered Green Day’s Dookie and the masses fell in love with “All The Small Things” on MTV, the genre has blossomed. Pop punk’s big break didn’t mean the genre got locked into a formula, either. […]