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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For every hit song that a pop-punk band releases, there are other incredible tunes of theirs that become forgotten, but they deserve to be remembered. As seen in the past with the classic rock genre, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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