Below we’ve highlighted the most important pop-punk album from every year through the '80s. Since the sub-genre was still in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flipper was a band beloved by Nirvana, and was instrumental in shaping the band's sound. Now, 21 years after Cobain's tragic and ...

The members of Ultrabomb all hail from notable bands from past decades, but this band is not about nostalgia. The Minneapolis-born trio, made up of Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü on bass and backing vocals, ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...

Iconic '80s punk rock band Social Distortion has announced a massive 2026 North America tour. The news was shared via ...

Fact: If you haven’t heard of elusive and short-lived Detroit punk band the Pathetx, you’re, well, pathetic. OK, maybe we’re being a little unfair. Formed in 1980 by singer Mark Leavitt and guitarist ...

Rock radio in 1983 was populated with melodic hits like Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian,” Def Leppard’s “Photograph” and Journey’s “Separate Ways.” Meanwhile in Huntsville, Alabama, a young band ...

The Jr. Chemists got their start the way a lot of punk bands got their start in Phoenix. As Michael Cornelius, who was in the midst of founding JFA, one of Arizona’s most iconic punk bands, by the ...