Gothic rock music, especially from the genre’s heyday in the 80s, is often known for its gloomy subject matter and sound. However, not all gothic rock songs have that weepy element. In fact, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

The early 2000s music scene was inundated by pop-punk bands. With so many classic 2000s pop-punk hits, many music lovers may ...

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 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Playback: Punk, Rock, and Emo Music Festival 2026 brings the loudest riffs, mosh pits, and throwback hits back to the stage.