Steven Loftin

From building MDDN to mentoring the next wave of alt stars, Good Charlotte have been working in the wings – and learning the whole time.
It’s been seven years since 2018’s ‘Generation Rx’, but Good Charlotte have finally returned. A rejuvenated sight, their time behind the scenes – raising families and new bands alike – has resulted in a band ready to return to their place in the pop-punk and emo lineage where they belong.
Leading this charge comes ‘Rejects’. The first taste of their upcoming...

A year on from ‘Service Station at the End of the Universe’ – Number 8 in Dork’s Best Albums of 2025 list – ANTONY SZMIEREK is evolving fast: new album incoming, new life underway, and no interest in slowing down.
t’s been a decade since Antony Szmierek released his debut album. Well, ‘Service Station at the End of the Universe’ was actually released back in February, but to Antony it feels that long. “It honestly feels like ten years old to me. It’s so strange how quickly your brain moves on...

Luvcat, the goth-glam alias of Liverpool’s Sophie Morgan, has built a world where doomed lovers, cinematic characters and twisted fairytales reign supreme.
As a child in her Liverpool homestead, Sophie Morgan stumbled upon a mystical world. Peering in, she’d seemingly discovered another side of life, one where reality blended with mysterious, noir-gothic fiction, and at once, she felt at home.
It was from this place, filled not with Cheshire Cats but doomed lovers, that she emerged as Luvcat....

ZAND isn’t scared of making a statement, but with new release ‘Sewerstar’, they’re out to challenge everything.
ZAND isn’t scared of making a statement, but with new release ‘Sewerstar’, they’re out to challenge everything.
2020’s ‘Ugly Pop’ properly introduced ZAND as unapologetically spirited. By slanging around brash pop music that delivered a lusty dose of liberation and confidence, including cuts like ‘Slut Money’ and ‘Freak’, it built upon the work of the London-based artist’s 2018 sing...

Life as a Latin star is a whirlwind. Burgeoning Argentine icon Nathy Peluso has completed the majority of her European tour in celebration of her second album, late 2024’s ‘Grasa’. It’s the day before her brief UK stint – a sold-out London Roundhouse show – and she’s a bit worse for wear. But, when your album begins with the achingly sung lyrics “This ambition is killing me”, what do you expect?
Dork’s invited into her car for a catchup as she’s whisked away to her next photoshoot. Life for N...

From cartoon characters to real-life revelations, illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin is turning up the volume on vulnerability. And she’s not afraid to get loud about it.
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From cartoon characters to real-life revelations, illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin is turning up the volume on vulnerability. And she’s not afraid to get loud about it. Check out our latest Dork Mixtape cover feature.
Words: Steven Loftin.
Photos: Shervin Lainez.
Musical mastermind Sarah Tuzdin hardly ...

Ahead of their appearance at Berlin's Pop-Kultur festival, Steven Loftin finds out how Melbourne punks Gut Health have been transforming stages across the world in into spaces of catharsis and rebellion.
For Gut Health, dancing and raging go hand in hand.
After all, dealing with the world's problems is far easier with an outlet that encourages such reactions. The weapon the Australian six-piece are wielding on this quest of theirs is an unapologetic, frenetic, flurry of punk attitude infused ...

This weekend, we’re down in lovely Henham park for Latitude 2017. Featuring loads of amazing bands, and a smaller number of equally brilliant sheep, we’ve been bringing you photos, news, reports, interviews and more across the weekend.
Sunday has more than its fair share of brilliant new acts – none more so than Matt Maltese. With work on a debut album approaching, we caught up to find out just where he’s at.
How’s festival season been going for you?
Yeah good, I haven’t done loads. I did Gla...

Enumclaw have learned that sometimes, not getting what you want can lead to finding what you need.
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Enumclaw have learned that sometimes, not getting what you want can lead to finding what you need. Their second album, ‘Home In Another Life’, is a testament to that journey—born from setbacks, but bursting with raw, real-time reflections. Check out our new Upset cover story.
Words: Steven Loftin.
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You can’t always get what you want:...

(HEAL) (On The Rise)
As they prepare for an appearance at Eurosonic festival, Catalan alt-rock four piece HEAL tells Steven Loftin about the ties that bind.
It could be a total understatement to say that a band is united by an unspoken bond between its members. But for Catalan-quartet HEAL, it is indeed a mystical unknown quantity that brings them together.
While Dani Ambrosí, Edu Mató, and Raúl Pérez knew each other from previous projects, this iteration of the Catalan quartet introduces a n...

12 February 2025, 22:31
(Rauw Alejandro)
Puerto Rican superstar on the rise, Rauw Alejandro's success all comes down a very simple personal philosophy, he tells Steven Loftin.
While his latest record, Cosa Nuestra, was released in November 2024, Rauw Alejandro seems poised to make 2025 his year.
Fresh from announcing the European leg of the supporting global tour – including a night at London’s O2 Arena – the Puerto Rican genre-defying star is every part the suave idol. Decked out in luxuriou...

29 November 2024, 10:00
Original Photography by Mark Seliger
(Elvis Costello) (Personal Best)
As one of England's most prolific songwriters, Elvis Costello has a harder job than many picking out the songs he's most proud of. He talks Steven Loftin through five of his personal best.
Elvis Costello contains paradoxes, marrying a fierce punk attitude with a Tin Pan Alley-like ability to craft diamond songs from the rough of life – both his own and imagined.
Resulting in a catalogue thirty-plus a...

Will Yip appears in our Fall 2024 Issue with cover stars Slipknot, Destroy Boys, Pierce the Veil, and beabadoobee. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy.
Lately, Will Yip starts his days early. With a recent addition to his family, the time for him to get to his studio — Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania — while balancing being a family man with an incredibly driven mind is an art within itself. But you don’t get to Yip’s status without focus.
There’s a high chance that if you’re even a pas...

Palaye Royale appear on the cover of the Spring 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy.
It’s been over a decade since brothers Sebastian Danzig, Remington Leith, and Emerson Barrett began their journey as Palaye Royale. Leaving behind their homestead of Las Vegas in 2011, they set out for LA, eventually sleeping in their mom’s borrowed car while they toiled away releasing independent music. Until, in 2015, Sumerian Records came calling and the risk paid its reward. In becoming rock ’...

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who will soon become your new favorite.
Dirt Buyer are an earnest endeavor only here by accident. While living in Boston in 2018, and with time on their hands, New Jersey native Joe Taylor Sutkowski and pal Ruben Radlauer thought it would be fun to make up a fake label. Then, listing a bunch of nonexistent bands, the plan was to bring them all to life. But it was one riff in particular that heralded Dirt Buyer’s lo-fi but intense entrance int...