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 ...

While pop-punk doesn't have the most respectable reputation among the punk faithful, these records helped give them the ...

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 ...

Breaking barriers and bending genres — meet Nova Twins, the fierce duo redefining what hard rock and punk sound and look like ...

2024 has been one of the best years for punk rock in a long time. From Knocked Loose's brutal set on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to Olivia Rodrigo's deluxe re-release of GUTS and pop-punk world tour with The ...

Twenty years after Avril Lavigne released her first album, "Let Go," the pop-punk star is back with a new record. Her return coincides with a resurgence of the pop-punk genre. Olivia Rodrigo brought ...

Many would probably not associate spirituality with punk rock, but as Santa Cruz author John Malkin has long posited — and ...

When you get down to it, pop-punk is one of the most fun genres of music out there in the world. It’s energetic, loud, fast, irreverent, and catchy. The songs don’t necessarily deal with serious ...

Baker, 60, is one of those punk rock Forrest Gump types, being involved in numerous landmark events in the genre. H e ...

When pop punk exploded in the 1990s, punk purists saw it as a bastardization of the genre, the opposite of everything punk stood for, and a threat to the genre’s reputation. The more popular, polished ...