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

Not many pop-punk albums can be considered a solid 10/10, but here's a collection of some that even the sneeriest of critics ...

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 ...

The pop punk craze of the late '90s and early 2000s delivered an array of bands who scored major radio hits before quickly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Taylor performs with her band Amyl and the Sniffers at Fenway Park. (Credit: Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) ...

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 ...

In 1976, music thrived in diversity, with Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad about a shipwreck and McCartney's playful love ...

Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...

Every millennial knows it: a tall man with sharp features gazes into the camera. "Hi. My name's Johnny Knoxville," he says, adding, "Welcome to Jackass." After a ridiculous stunt—getting shot out of a ...

Punk rock, a genre that’s known for being explicit, aggressive, and wildly feverish might be the best to capture a feeling as intense and complicated as love. For those who find themselves jilted this ...