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The Mic Check – New Hip-Hop This Week: 03/06/16

AltWire Songs of the Week 3/6/16 1.Finish Line – Daye Jack Daye Jack returns with his fourth single since releasing his fantastic 2015 debut Soul Glitch. Finish Line has strong funk influences, and it’s ...

Album Review: Lil Yachty – Lil Boat

Lil Yachty seemingly dropped out of the sky. I, and most other people, had never heard of him until February 11th after the Yeezy Fashion Show/Life of Pablo Listening Party, where he played the role ...

Asking Alexandria Premiere “Let It Sleep” Video

Asking Alexandria premiered their new music video worldwide for“Let It Sleep,” the response overwhelmingly positive. The fourth single released for The Black, “Let It Sleep” is the opening track to their fourth studio album- first with new frontman ...

AltWire’s Most Exciting Pre-Orders Of 2016 So Far…

The year 2016 is proving out to be exciting in the music landscape just three months in. Check out some of the best pre-orders for both up-and-coming bands and those you’ve been supporting for ...

Altwire Artists To Watch: Rory Fresco

Rory Fresco did not blow up based on pure luck. Okay, well maybe he did, but he definitely has the skills to justify all of the attention he has been getting. Fresco blew up ...

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’ as per their Facebook status. The North American tour ...

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 and Tribe Society, a select amount of cities to ...

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 band that is From Ashes To New. Being in ...

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 to start a trend of introducing our readers to ...

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 My Way Back To Korn, a follow up to ...

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 their vocalist of roughly two years for From Bach ...

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 on her own and is as incredible as ever ...

AltWire Artists To Watch: Vitruvia

Since Altwire was created, our staff has kept an open mind regarding acts from all walks of life. We cover bands that are famous to bands that are up and coming. At the historic ...

Viola Beach Honored in Official Top 40 After Fatal Accident

Up-and-coming English indie band Viola Beach were caught by tragedy this weekend, all four members and their manager killed in a car accident in Sweden. Just a day after news confirmed the accident, their ...

Sick Puppies Reveal New Vocalist, Tease New Single

Sick Puppies parted ways with frontman on guitar Shim Moore since October 2014- but in December last year, a teaser was dropped by remaining members Emma Anzai and Mark Goodwin. Carefully hidden from view, ...

3 Doors Down Release New Single “The Broken”

3 Doors Down are set to drop their sixth studio album next month, their latest single “The Broken” likely the last taste of Us and the Night before it hits the streets March 11th. The single follows the first ...

Deftones to Premiere New Single, Album Art Released

Deftones are set to release their eighth album this April, the long rumored title confirmed as GORE. The upcoming album is building anticipation after four long years for fans, recent teasers released by the band on social ...

The Smashing Pumpkins Announce ‘In Plainsong’ Tour

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a Spring tour this March and April throughout North America, following up on the highly acclaimed and successful tour last year after their latest album, Monuments To An Elegy. The ...

Dreamers Chase a New Sound on Upcoming Album

Dreamers are moving towards a new sound for their debut album after they started prowling the music industry back in 2014, This Album Does Not Exist dropping a ‘psychedelic rock’n’roll’ sound this Spring through Fairfax Recordings. ...

New Year, New Sounds – The Most Anticipated Releases in 2016

It’s 2016, peeps! The Olympics are coming to Rio, a new president will be elected in the United States, and Juno will finally arrive at Jupiter, amongst many other big things set to occur ...