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 ...
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 biggest influences on aesthetic and vaporwave as a whole ...
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 to fame over the last few months. Transplants from ...
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 you consider lead singer Matty Healy said in an ...
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 ...
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 Simple Plan are back with their fifth studio album ...
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 albums, three live albums, a complete series of comic ...
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 ...
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 whopping fifty minute phone interview into a condensed article. ...
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 ...
[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 venue this place is! Ok, so it’s technically a ...
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 ...
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 are all actual quotes that we all hear about ...
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 Interview] Jesse Taylor & Jesse Carmichael of Wildcat! Wildcat!
Wildcat! Wildcat! is currently working on new music since the release of their self titled album No Moon at All. The duo will be releasing each track individually for free over the course of ...
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 ...
[AltWire Interview] Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down – “This Is a Different Band Now…”
Formed in 1996, 3 Doors Down practically exploded on the scene with the release of their debut single “Kryptonite” in 2000, which garnered significant airplay worldwide and propelled their debut record The Better Life to multi-platinum ...
Album Review: Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
So, it’s no big secret that the production of Kanye West’s latest effort, something that West himself touted and paraded as “the best album of all time”, was incredibly unorganized. Many tracklist changes, changes ...