Box Car Racer, +44, and Texas Is the Reason are all among the best pop punk bands that only released one album, but made it ...

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 ...

The October roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.

Blink-182 had slowed down quite a bit when the 2010s arrived. We’re glad they didn’t disband entirely. The 2011 album Neighborhoods was their first album in a whopping eight years, and it didn’t ...

Rising pop punk singer Taylor Acorn will perform Amos' Southend on Friday, Nov. 14. Her sophomore album "Poster Child" ...

Hell, apparetly, hath no fury like Lily Allen scorned—but Allen's ‘West End Girl’ isn’t the first time an iconic artist has ...

In October, Bad Boy Records’ Machine Gun Kelly topped the Billboard 200 for the first time with his fifth album, Tickets To My Downfall – charting higher with guitar-driven pop-punk songs than he ever ...

It might seem random, but the worlds of K-pop and 2000s pop-punk collided last week — a new remix of the K-pop girl group TWICE's song "I Can't Stop Me" emerged with a guest spot from none other than ...

In a world of revivals – a product of what the writer Simon Reynolds termed “retromania” – some stick and some don’t. The post-punk revival of the Noughties, for example, lasted significantly longer ...

In their early days of touring, every night was a party for Mayday Parade. The Tallahassee pop-punkers would hit a new city, play for small yet impassioned crowds, make friends with the locals — and ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. That’s Rad!, a local pop punk cover band, presented the second annual “A Very Pop ...

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 ...