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 ...
" Corona is very heartfelt," Watt told Louder in 2022. "After all the drinking and the partying, the morning after, there's a ...
Just like every decade before it — and since — the ‘90s sounded completely different from all other musical eras. It was an incredibly raw time in the music industry, with new genres popping up 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 ...
Fans love to debate the first punk band. Kinks or Kingsmen? Or did they have too much proto in their punk and it really didn’t start until the Dolls or the Damned came along a decade later? Doesn’t ...
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 ...