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 ...

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 ...

It goes overlooked how the pop-punk genre can get dark sometimes. As is often the case with pop music, the catchiness of certain records can be so close to perfection that listeners overlook the dark ...

Here are the best cover songs from 11 big pop-punk bands. When it comes to pop-punk bands playing cover songs, things typically go one of two ways. They either stay too true to the original as they ...

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 ...

The pop punk veterans, along with Plain White T's, brought the nostalgia-coated "Up Up Down Down" tour to Landmark Credit ...

A rare slow and sombre cut from New Found Glory, Sticks & Stones track Sonny was written after the death of frontman Jordan Pundik’s grandfather. ‘An empty chair at all the tables’ he describes in the ...

"Same Drugs" is more of a piano-based ballad with Chance the Rapper peppering in Peter Pan references as he tells a story of ...