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Review: gracie – Miss Misfortunately

gracie - Miss Misfortunately
Adam Grundy

On the debut full-length record from gracie, called Miss Misfortunately, she weaves a slick narrative between songs heavily influenced by artists like Paramore and Olivia Rodrigo, but with a twist of ingenuity that is unmistakably her blueprint. “I’m not making music because I want to be successful; I’m making music because I have to,” gracie affirms. “I need to tell an authentic story. Sonically, it’s a collection of everything that’s influenced me. I’m ready to express so many thoughts I hadn’t been given permission to express before. The record is about being human, laughing at yourself, telling scary stories, and holding nothing back. It’s who I am as an artist.” Miss Misfortunately might not be the record you’d expect a label like Tooth & Nail Records to put out, but the songs found here are undeniably catchy, dripping with purpose, and gracie proves that her topical sound is poised for the next big breakout moment in the music scene.

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Thursday Talk Tour and History

Thursday
Jason Tate

Thursday sat down to talk with Alt. Press.

“Full Collapse and No Devolución are the most connected to me, because they’re at either end of our catalog. Full Collapse is the most raw, first concept of Thursday, which had the biggest impact. And No Devolución is at the other end, when we had tried a million different experiments and really messed with what we were doing. We had finally arrived at a place of, ‘This is the other end of the spectrum from that innocence.’ We know what we’re doing, and there’s stuff that we had been really trying to make work through the other records that always felt like, ‘Well, that’s a cool record, but did we get all the way where we were trying to get to?’ We finally got there with No Devolución. They also came out 10 years apart to the week. They feel like bookends to me.”

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Interview: Ronnie Winter and K. of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Adam Grundy

Recently I was able to schedule a Zoom call with Ronnie Winter and K. of emo rock band, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, to discuss their latest record called X’s For Eyes. The band’s sixth album to date features key cameos on songs like “Always the King” (ft. Kellen Quinn) and “Worth It” (ft. Craig Mabbitt) and an urgency towards the political climate today. If you’re enjoying the interview, please consider streaming X’s For Eyes here.

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Review: Snarls – In Heaven There’s Rainbows

Snarls - In Heaven There's Rainbows
Adam Grundy

The new EP from Snarls, called In Heaven There’s Rainbows, opens up soaked in a mysterious cloud of distorted vocals, hauntingly gorgeous melody undertones, and vibrant guitars from the Columbus, Ohio band. For a band that stormed onto the indie rock scene with a cheery sound on Burst, this latest EP’s first chorus on “Chemical Control (Spill Your Blood) basks in the darkness with the lyrics of, “If you spill your blood / You’re mine to keep (Never letting go) / I’m the chemical control / I’ll see you in your sleep / Pray you come to me.” It’s crystal clear that Snarls are not content with staying the same band as their debut, and they make remarkable leaps of faith that largely pay off in their favor on In Heaven There’s Rainbows. The world around the band is dark, and yet Snarls remain a beacon of light and hope in the indie rock realm.

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Review: Sleeping With Sirens – An Ending In Itself

Sleeping With Sirens - An Ending In Itself
Adam Grundy

For a band who have just released their eighth studio album, Sleeping With Sirens still seem extremely motivated and hungry for world domination on An Ending In Itself. Produced by veteran hit-maker Will Yip (Turnstile, Circa Survive), the songs that make up this LP are some of the strongest in the band’s catalog and showcase an artist whose dedication to their craft remains unlimited. Sonically, the record feels recharged, energetic, and vibrant as the music that comes through the speakers feels as urgent as Sleeping With Sirens have been in quite some time. While their last few albums were a bit of a mixed bag in terms of similar-sounding songs, An Ending In Itself firmly stands on its own two feet and I’d place the LP right there at the top of Sleeping With Sirens’ discography.

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Interview: Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy
AbsolutePunk

Let’s start with the new record – what’s the vibe like in the Fall Out Boy camp based on the reactions to the new song, the buzz around the viral campaign and so forth? Does it feel as big as everyone’s hoping for?

I guess there’s a question these days of “Why put out records anymore?” you know, like, “Why even bother?” I wasn’t really interested–I don’t think any of us were really interested in getting rich and famous–and, by virtue of putting out a new record, we will probably get more rich and famous, you know? [laughs] Which is not something I want really. So like, why really [put out an album], right? It’s because you want to say something. You want to express yourself. You have art that you need to get out. So that was really my only purpose in making a record and I’m totally stoked on it the way it is now, for sure.

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