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 ...

In the mid-1970s, a rot was creeping in, and Lemmy felt like music was in need of a change. He felt punk bands like the Sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the ...

Rock fans can likely belt out this 1976 track's leading chant, which has not only become a punk rock anthem, but one often used at sporting events. In the mid '70s, the American punk rock band the ...

It’s only natural that a band so well-known for their catchy hooks would dish out a very memorable love song or two. “Good Good Things” is a particularly sweet song, one that differs quite a bit from ...

Here's the best pop-punk album from very year of the 1980s. Genres don’t appear overnight. They are the result of a natural evolution, where musical styles collide to create something new and dynamic.

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 ...