Alternative Press (music magazine)

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November 2005 issue of Alternative Press featuring Coheed and Cambria

First ever issue of Alternative Press, then a photocopied fanzine instead of today's magazine.

Alternative Press is a music magazine which primarily focuses on punk, emo, metal, indie rock, ska, hardcore and rock music and their attendant subgenres.

[edit] Criticisms

The magazine has been criticized by many, particularly David Thorpe, a music reviewer at Something Awful. General criticisms are that it panders to the "Hot Topic crowd', and has gone a long way downhill since its days as a punk fanzine.

[edit] Other Information

Some artists that Alternative Press has supported in recent years have become huge mainstream successes. My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, the Used, Taking Back Sunday, Avenged Sevenfold and Coheed & Cambria (along with several others) have all been covered extensively in the magazine since their bands' early days and have since been established on a mainstream level with the help of radio and television. The magazine was also the first national music publication to put Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins and other alternative-rock icons on its cover. It is consistently acknowledged by the music industry as a tastemaking magazine; inside its offices, you will find gold and platinum records of everyone from Radiohead to Slipknot to the All-American Rejects to Foo Fighters, all thanking the magazine for their consistent coverage.