Plot Synopsis

Starting in 2014, the ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS (APMAs) annually honor outstanding alternative-rock artists for recent and lifetime achievements. In its inaugural year, the APMAs conferred 14 awards, including: Album of the Year; Artist of the Year; Song of the Year; Best Guitarist; Best Drummer; Best International Band; Most Dedicated Fans; Icon Award (Joan Jett); Vanguard Award (Billy Corgan); Guitar Legend Award (Slash); and more. The 2014 APMAs, hosted by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, were broadcast live from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, on Monday, July 21, 2014 at 8pm ET/5pm PT on AXS TV, featuring performances from A Day To Remember, All Time Low, Asking Alexandria, Fall Out Boy, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Machine Gun Kelly, The Misfits, Sleeping With Sirens, twenty one pilots, Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco, and more. Other artists scheduled to make appearances include: Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides, Chiodos, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, I See Stars, Ice-T & Coco, Korn, Memphis May Fire, Motionless In White, Frankie Palmeri of Emmure, We Came As Romans, Yellowcard, and Cleveland's 115-piece Contemporary Youth Orchestra. On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 from 7-11:30pm ET/4-8:30pm PT, AXS TV broadcast live coverage of the 2015 ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS, hosted by All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat from Quicken Loans Arena, just down the street from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, OH. The 2nd annual event featured performances from Weezer, Pierce The Veil, Panic! At The Disco, Rob Zombie, All Time Low, New Found Glory with Hayley Williams, Taking Back Sunday, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Simple Plan, Halestorm, DMC of Run DMC, Black Veil Brides, Sum 41, Motionless In White, Issues' Tyler Carter with PVRIS and Mike Herrera of MXPX. Immediately before the awards program, Ash Costello of New Years Day and Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die cover the red carpet from 6:30-7pm ET/3:30-4pm PT on AXS TV.
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The 2016 ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS -- hosted by All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat on Monday, July 18 from the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio -- were streamed live at Amazon (www.amazon.com/apmas) and on the Amazon Music Twitch channel starting at 7pm ET/4pm PT. The 2016 event featured performances by Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, Papa Roach, BABYMETAL, Beartooth, Dashboard Confessional, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive, Machine Gun Kelly, MAX, Eddy Brewerton of Moose Blood and Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire. Visit www.amazon.com/apmas to watch on your computer. To watch on your TV, download the Twitch app from your TV's app store. The Twitch platform is also viewable on both iPhone and Android devices, which you can also use to stream www.amazon.com/apmas without downloading Twitch. You can also watch the APMAs via the Twitch platforms on Playstation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Chromecast, Fire TV and Nvidia Shield. Plus, for 48 hours after the show begins, you can watch it in full on Amazon. Just go to www.amazon.com/apmas, and watch the entire show some time before 7pm ET on July 20.