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

On Monday morning, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known as the iconic French dance duo Daft Punk, released a cryptic eight-minute video on their YouTube channel titled ...

Punk rock, a genre that’s known for being explicit, aggressive, and wildly feverish might be the best to capture a feeling as intense and complicated as love. For those who find themselves jilted this ...

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, ...

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 ...

These punk rock frontmen and frontwomen remain some of the greatest of all time, and the genre likely wouldn't be the same ...

Pop-punk music is still going strong, and look no further than Avril Lavigne’s Greatest Hits tour for proof. The Canadian singer, who broke out as a teenager in 2002 with songs like “Complicated” and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has been voted the "saddest pop-punk song" ever written, according to a ranking from ...

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 ...