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 ...

When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas ...

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 ...

The pop-punk resurgence continues, with one of the genre's more promising stars of the 2000s coming back full circle after enjoying career success in country music for the past decade. That would be ...

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 ...