Flight of the Conchords Announce Reunion Tour, New Music
Flight of the Conchords announced a reunion tour taking flight June 2016, confirming new material has been written and will be ‘showcas[ed] on the road’…
February 2016
Album Review: Yung Lean – Warlord
In the early 2010s a new music genre was born called vaporwave (also called vapourwave), and with it came aesthetic. Yung Lean was one of the…
Highly Suspect Interview: A Chat With Richard Meyer
Easily one of the biggest success stories of 2015, the boys in Highly Suspect have experienced what could easily be described as a meteoric rise…
Album Review: The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep…
I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. An unorthodox album name, that’s even more strange when…
Goo Goo Dolls to Tour North America Summer 2016
Goo Goo Dolls have announced a headlining North American Tour, the tour kicking off July 8th in Portland, Oregon. Supporting the headliner are Collective Soul…
Altwire Artists To Watch: From Ashes To New
Continuing on our Artists To Watch series of highlighting exciting new bands, I’d like to introduce to our readers the fast-paced adrenaline rush of a…
Simple Plan Interview: Pop-Punk Legends
One of the most successful and popular pop-punk bands to come out of the pop-punk explosion of the early 2000’s, the Quebec based five piece…
Coheed and Cambria: A Deeply Honest Chat with Josh Eppard
Arguably one of the best progressive rock bands to grace this generation of music, Coheed and Cambria boasts an impressive list of accomplishments: eight studio…
AltWire Artists To Watch: Howlish
Photograph by Jackie Papanier, taken from Howlish’s Facebook page. Earlier this week, AltWire introduced our readers to another artist to watch, Vitruvia. In an attempt…
Beast Behind the Beats Week VI – Supreme Trackz
Updated correction: Website is www.supremetrackz.com not supremetracks.com Wow. That’s what I thought when this interview ended. Ahead of me was the arduous task of transcribing a…
Brian “Head” Welch of Korn Returns With New Book
Brian “Head” Welch, guitarist and founding member of Korn, is set to release a brand new book, With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes On…
[Blogs from the Pit] Safetysuit Live @ The Foundry 02/17/16
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hitting up the Safetysuit show in Philly at The Foundry. Let me start by saying what a cool little…
Chester Bennington Reunites with Stone Temple Pilots for Charity
Stone Temple Pilots will have a one-off performance this March with Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, the remaining members of the iconic band reuniting with…
Legacy of the Lyricist Vol I – Aramis
“There aren’t any more lyricists…” “Hip-Hop is dead…” “All you need these days is a dope beat and a hook…” “Lyrics don’t matter anymore…” These…
Single Review – Gwen Stefani’s “Make Me Like You”
While admittedly not an “alternative” artist, the recently divorced former front woman for No Doubt is certainly showing us all that she CAN do it…
