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| Interview: The Swellers & The Devil Wears Prada (and some reviews) |
Alter The Press! recently spoke with Nick Diener from The Swellers. Diener talked to us about the bands superb Fueled By Ramen debut, 'Ups and Downsizing', growing up in Flint, Michigan and the music scene there, the bands inspirations, their current US tour alongside platinum-selling group Paramore and more.
Read the full interview here.
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Alter The Press! sat down with Mike Hranica and Jeremy DePoyster of The Devil Wears Prada whilst in the UK supporting Enter Shikari.
Mike and Jeremy spoke to ATP! about the success of their latest album, 'Roots Above And Branches Below', the Christian metalcore scene, signing to Ferret Music, The Office, new material and more.
Read the full interview here.
Also:
Latest Album Reviews: Single Review Round-Up:
Tell It To The Marines, Swound!, Green Day, Outraze and Crazy Arm
| | Tags: The Swellers, The Devil Wears Prada, Interview, Alter The Press, |
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| | | 3 New Interviews, A Free Song Download and A FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS COMPETITION |
I'll try and make this quick.
AlterThePress.com has 3 new interviews (Swound!, EastStrikeWest and Futures (ex-Tonight Is Goodbye)), a free song download by Stagecoach and are giving away 5 copies of The Friday Night Boys album, 'Off The Deep End! here.' | | Tags: The Friday Night Boys, competition, alter the press, swound, eaststrikewest, futures, |
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| | | | Business As Usual |
Alter The Press! has been active as always and, in terms of viewers, growing.
Anyway below is a list of interviews and reviews we have recently posted.
Expect a Maydat Parade album review later today.
Latest Interviews
Latest Album Reviews
| | Tags: Relient K, Every Avenue, Stereo Skyline, |
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| | | Are Labels Shooting Themselves in the foot? |
Ok let's admit album leaks are highly expected these days. Albums can leak days, weeks, even months before schedule (see Thrice's 'Beggars' for details.)
More or less of the time, it is unfortunate it happens and unfortunaly it can't be helped.
However more and more lately, there is a current trend at the moment of streaming records via myspace, ap.net etc, a week or so before their release.
For example, Relient K's new album (which is pretty decent I must say) and new releases from BlessTheFall and HORSE The Band, are currently streaming a week ahead of release, or in the case of the new 1997 and Four Letter Lie albums, 3 WEEKS! before release.
I'll admit for the most part, some people arn't going to download a webrip of an album. However some still do and in one way or another, affect the sales and success of these releases.
But who's to blame the non-consumer or the label for putting up the stream?
Should labels re-think the way to promote forthcoming releases? | | Tags: labels, streaming, new albums, new releases, |
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| | | Interviewing Important People (I think ?) |
Before going out 2 nights in a row and losing all motivation I had, I posted an interview I did with Chris Hansan of No Sleep Records.
I think I’ve said it before, but I kind of like doing interviews with people who work within the music indsutry, and are not just in a band. I like finding out their views and opinions, on certain issues and how they started in the industriy. That's probably the History student still in me. I like knowing how things start and came to be.
Anyway Chris talked about his background, the aims of No Sleep Records, his thoughts on illegal downloading, their distribution deal with RevDistribution and more.
Read the interview here. | | Tags: No Sleep Records, Interview, AterThePress, |
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| | Interview: The Summer Set (and a bit of coming soon blog etc) |
AlterThePress.com have a new interview with 3/5 of The Summer Set
They talk about their new album, 'Love Like This', their new single, 'Chelsea', the use of social networking sites, their collaboration with Dia Frampton and more.
In Other News:
Welsh band, Tiger Please sent us this special video messege:
Personally I've got a list of big(-ish) releases to review within the next week or so.
AFI - Crash Love
The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
Sparks The Rescue - Eyes To The Sun (UK release)
Congratulations
This is a bit belated, but congrats to Adam Pfleider to becoming a AP staff member. I've been following his blogs for about a year now. Looking forward to reading his book in the future.
Also looked like I missed out on a talented writer when I had the chance, my bad.
| | Tags: The Summer Set, Adam Pfleider, interview, alterthepress, |
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| | | Thought I'd share this with AP.net |
As you may or may not know, I've been linking (and proof-reading) my review of 'Daisy' the past 24 hours. So much that the man known to AP.net as NoahFawks linked it to a certain Scott Heisel.
Who replied with this
Anyway.....
AlterThePress.com has had a pretty decent week. We've got 2 of our writers back permanently, and along with 3 or 4 we recruited recently, I can now spend my time focusing less on reviews and more of other aspects of the site. (I'm sure some will be relieved I won't be doing reviews as much).
We've had posted album reviews nearly every day and I've sent a few e-mail interviews up (The Summer Set, Jonny Craig, Of Mice and Men, No Sleep Records and more).
I'm off to see The Wildhearts tomorrow and then Twin Atlantic on Sunday. | |
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| | Album Review: Brand New - Daisy |
Today I finally got round to sitting down and reviewing the much-talked about 'Daisy' by Brand New.
I did it to the best of my ability and not from a fans perspective. If as a fan of the band, I won't over-hype this album, as it dosn't really deserve it.
I'm going to assume people on this site will jump and defend this album to death. That's fine by me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I respect that.
However I also assume alot of these people are "fanboys (or girls)", who will defend a band no matter what they do. In their eyes the can do no wrong. But people have to realise no one or no band is perfect.
That is exactly what 'Daisy' is. Not Perfect.
Here is the review. | | Tags: brand new, daisy, album review, alterthepress, |
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