Remember Mayday Parade? This pop punk outfit made it big with “Jamie All Over” in 2008. The song quickly became the band’s most commercially successful hit and was a stellar opener for the band’s ...

It goes overlooked how the pop-punk genre can get dark sometimes. As is often the case with pop music, the catchiness of certain records can be so close to perfection that listeners overlook the dark ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Taylor performs with her band Amyl and the Sniffers at Fenway Park. (Credit: Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) ...

In the mid-’70s, rock got usurped by punk. Though rock, as a broad definition, had gone through many changes up unto that point, it still had a recognizability about it. Punk was something completely ...

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 ...

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 ...