The December roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a ...

Remember Mayday Parade? This pop punk outfit made it big with “Jamie All Over” in 2008. The song quickly became the band’s most commercially successful hit and was a stellar opener for the band’s ...

It was around the turn of the 21st century when pop punk music really started to hit the mainstream. Bands like Blink-182 and artists like Avril Lavigne really put the fun, energetic genre into the ...

Punk rock's big bang happened sometime around 1973, when the self-titled debut album from the New York Dolls was released. There were plenty of ripples before then — the Stooges, MC5, any number of ...

Since they burst onto the scene, Paramore has been one of the driving forces in pop-punk, and they have changed the scene with songs like these.

Pop punk and emo bands like Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel took over in 2005. Now, they're back and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than two decades after their peak, the music of Yellowcard is a pop punk message in a bottle. The note that ...

Despite most closely associated with the early 2000s, pop punk can trace its roots back to bands like The Ramones, whose influence can be traced to bands like Fall Out Boy who are associated with the ...

When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas ...

More than 700 All Time Low fans packed a Boston beer garden Tuesday to see the band at a free pop-up show. The popular punk rock band performed a roughly 45-minute acoustic set at Cisco Brewers in ...

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 ...