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

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 ...

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

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 ...

As pioneers of the punk rock movement, the Ramones helped establish the genre in the United States and the United Kingdom, reviving rock music from the popular styles and bringing it back to basics.

Those who have grown tired of the typical Christmas songs will discover a different side of the holidays in rock and punk ...

Punk rock music—that blistering, snarling, enlivening style—has exhilarated audiences for some 50 years now. What rose to prominence in the mid-1970s has become a sound for the generations. Never ...

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 is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...