Absolutepunk

AbsolutePunk

The AbsolutePunk homepage in November 2009.
Type of site	Music, news, and media
Available in	English
Created by	Jason Tate
Slogan(s)	Music Mends Broken Hearts
Website	www.absolutepunk.net
Registration	Optional
Launched	June 6, 2000
Current status	Defunct (URL now redirects to Chorus.fm)
closed April 1, 2016

AbsolutePunk was a website, online community, and alternative music news source founded by Jason Tate (the current CEO). The website mainly focused on artists who are relatively unknown to mainstream audiences, but it was known to feature artists who have eventually achieved crossover success, including Blink-182, Fall Out Boy,My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, The Gaslight Anthem, Anberlin, Thrice, All Time Low, Jack's Mannequin, Yellowcard, Paramore, Relient K, and A Day to Remember. The primary musical genres of focus were emo and pop punk, but other genres were included.

On March 31, 2016, it was announced that founder Jason Tate would be re-acquiring AbsolutePunk from SpinMedia (the parent company of Buzznet) and the website would be shuttered and folded into Tate's new music and social platform, Chorus.fm. The very next day on April 1, all of the domain names and social media accounts associated with AbsolutePunk were being redirected to Chorus.fm.

Founded June 6, 2000 by Jason Tate, the website focused on music industry news, and included album reviews, interviews, articles, journals and photo galleries. The site also allowed user interaction via a vBulletin Internet Forum system; users could register their own personalized account, create a profile, and comment on nearly every portion of the site. Special accounts were afforded to industry figures (such as record label representatives) and band members denoting them as such, with threads often created specifically to allow users to interact with them.