{"product_id":"badflower-alternative-press-magazine-issue-397-august-2021","title":"ALTERNATIVE PRESS AUGUST 2021 ISSUE FEATURING BADFLOWER","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBadflower\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAlternative Press Magazine\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eIssue 397 - August 2021\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThis Purchase Includes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e1 - Badflower \u003c\/strong\u003eon Alternative Press Magazine \u003cstrong\u003eIssue 397\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct \u0026amp; Shipping Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou will receive an email with shipping confirmation and tracking information as soon as your order is shipped from our warehouse.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease reach out to us at \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003estore@altpress.com\u003c\/span\u003e if you have any questions about this product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eWhat's Inside:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOver the last several years, music genres have become more and more muddied by artist experimentation, fusing sounds on the opposite end of the spectrum and releasing collabs that span across the board. Gone are the days of searching for music based on its classification: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/pop-punk\"\u003e\u003cb\u003epop punk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/hip-hop\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehip-hop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/emo\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eemo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/rock\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003erock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. It hardly matters anymore. Instead, music lovers and artists alike are working to connect on a deeper level, regardless of how it would be classified on a playlist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhile music continues to shift and change, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/badflower\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBadflower\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/blackbear\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eblackbear\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e are at the forefront of the evolution of its future. Maintaining roots in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/alternative\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ealternative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e while also allowing elements of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/pop\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003epop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, hip-hop and more to act prominently in their sound, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/badflowermusic\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBadflower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bear\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eblackbear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e are forging the next generation of music listeners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMaking his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/alternative-press\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlternative Press \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecover debut, photographed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/logansrice\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLogan Rice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, to coincide with an all-new interview with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.altpress.com\/author\/karlsmith\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eKarl Smith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eissue 397\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, blackbear offers insight into his forthcoming EP, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emisery lake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, dropping Aug. 13.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emisery lake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is all about isolation and cutting everyone off and struggling to see the light in the room,” blackbear says. “It's my favorite EP I've done besides \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edrink bleach\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. I just can't wait for the world to hear it.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“It really is just about the place I was in 2020,” he continues. “Sometimes I was happy and sassy, and sometimes [I was] proud, and sometimes I just couldn't get out of bed for days. ‘alone in a room full of people’ is the first song for a reason!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAdditionally, Badflower are also making their Alternative Press cover debut, shot by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/travis_shinn\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTravis Shinn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. In their cover interview, vocalist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/josh-katz\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Katz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e spoke with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.altpress.com\/author\/smithengelhardt\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJoe Smith-Engelhardt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e about the raw efforts the group made to create their upcoming sophomore release, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQ_ifqVnwD2\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTHIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, dropping Sept. 24.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“If something wasn't perfect but we felt that we were all smiling or crying or excited or whatever, let's not mess with that,” Katz says. “Let's leave it exactly as it is, but we couldn't do that on the first album, though. I think we were just a bit too insecure. There's something that came with having some success from the first album that made us feel this new level of confidence to do stuff like that.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“There's a song called ‘Only Love’ that I wasn't finished writing all the lyrics for, and I was recording it in pieces,” Katz continues. “I was writing a bit and then singing it and mostly leaving the first takes because I was so in the moment and emotional. There was a moment toward the end where I didn't have the lyrics finished. I just had the start of them, and I was like, ‘I'm going to put down this beginning just so I can hear that, and maybe I'll be able to write the rest.’ I ended up pretty much finishing the song on the fly, and you can hear me specifically stumbling over certain words because I was just finding the words in the moment. When I hear it back, it makes me chuckle because I wrote it right then and there, and I left it and I never touched it. That was a moment that I'll never forget. That's a moment that you couldn't plan, and I don't know if it'll ever happen again, but it's very cool.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhile piecing together Alternative Press Issue 397, we focused our attention on highlighting artists who are also abolishing genre and creating music on their own terms. On the verge of his debut album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/blk-odyssy\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBLK ODYSSY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is redefining both his sound and himself on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBLK VINTAGE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Alternative Press also spoke with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/upsahl\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPSAHL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e about her forthcoming album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/chvrches\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHVRCHES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e on working with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/the-cure\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe Cure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/altpress.com\/tag\/robert-smith\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and the release of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eScreen Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and more. 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