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 ...

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 ...

Since 2018, one band has been pushing its musical abilities to the limit. The Ordinary Things are rooted in their folk sound, but also mix things up with metal and punk genres. The Ordinary Things ...

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 ...

The pop-punk band Weezer’s self-titled, “Green Album.” This album, although it was successful itself, it caused many fans to become weary of the pop-punk genre, and caused many changes in later ...

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 ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...

The punk movement might be best associated with England, due to the Sex Pistols and the Clash, but America is represented quite well within the icons of the genre. Here's a look. Listed in ...

SANTA CRUZ — When one thinks of punk rock, there are a few tenets that come to mind: rebellion, anti-authoritarianism, social justice, DIY ethics, individualism and so on. Many would probably not ...