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

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

From All-American Rejects to Paramore and Beyond, Alternative Radio Loved These Hits The All-American Rejects’ mega-hit “Dirty Little Secret” was released on their 2005 second album, Move Along (which ...

Punk rock music has been a staple in the genre for decades. It is a rebellious sound that sought to rage with fast guitar-based songs and expel a lot of emotion and energy. But over time, some within ...

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.

In the decade or so after Green Day's Dookie changed the landscape of alternative music forever, pop-punk had a deluge of ...

Since initially emerging in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, punk has been rock’s rebellious, loud and proudly defiant genre. We combed through decades worth of material to find the 30 Greatest Songs in ...

One listen to The Paradox and the sound is a nostalgic reminder of early 2000s pop-punk rock. But seeing the band rocking out on stage at the famous Warped Tour or opening for major acts, well, they ...

Blink-182 may not have invented pop-punk, but they certainly perfected it and rose some major chart success along the way. These 10 legendary songs, however, never ascended to No. 1. Since breaking ...

In their early days of touring, every night was a party for Mayday Parade. The Tallahassee pop-punkers would hit a new city, play for small yet impassioned crowds, make friends with the locals — and ...

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 ...

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 ...