There is so much that has happened this past year in the pop-punk scene, and I’m stoked to be making music. Being able to get back onstage has also been a lot of fun because I’ve been able to travel ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

When you get down to it, pop-punk is one of the most fun genres of music out there in the world. It’s energetic, loud, fast, irreverent, and catchy. The songs don’t necessarily deal with serious ...

Over the last 50 years, punk has become synonymous with the Sex Pistols. Their outlandish, attention-grabbing stunts caught the attention of the media and had them repeatedly featured as front-page ...

From Blink-182 and Green Day to Yellowcard and Paramore, many pop-punk bands have stolen the hearts of rock music lovers. Though the genre has slightly shifted as the years (or decades) have passed, ...

Pop punk is an interesting genre. So many millennials look back at the golden age of pop punk with a sense of longing and nostalgia. Those bands, however, seem to want nothing more than to escape the ...

Perched somewhere between a jukebox musical and a covers night, Punk Off (formerly titled Pretty Vacant) is a nostalgic, energetic and unapologetically loud look back at the origins, context and ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...