Trends change, but I’ve never in my lifetime seen the thirst for punk music die. It shows up in surprising ways, like when Olivia Rodrigo gets arenas full of impressionable kids singing along to punk ...

This has been a notable year for hardcore and punk, with several up-and-coming bands continuing to build on the promise of their previous releases and reliably excellent records from more established ...

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 ...

Our 100 favorite songs from a year where pop was really back in full effect. As we build toward the 2024 Billboard Music Awards on Dec. 12 and Billboard’s Year-End Charts reveal on Dec. 13, check out ...

The calendar has turned to 2025 and 2024 is already fading in the rearview mirror. That’s not going to stop us from looking back at last year’s best punk releases, however, because the need for great ...