Ever wondered how modern music has become so epic? Of course, the popular artists of our day have learned a thing or two from the OGs in their genre. If you’re looking to learn more about the ...

In the late 1970s, punk rock seemed to decline as quickly as it had risen in popularity. And as the scene waned nearly as quickly as the breakneck tempos that defined it, a new sound emerged. With ...

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 ...

Post-punk as a genre is heating up today’s music scene, but it was really in its prime in the 1980s. Now, post-punk is a bit muddled in terms of style and direction. But when it was at its height ...

We typically identify punk by its brash, in-your-face, sometimes unintelligible delivery. But when you really consider the lyrics, you’ll usually find pure anarchic poetry, depending on who you’re ...

Rock history rarely moves in straight lines. Genres fade from the charts, only to resurface in new forms years later. Psychedelic Rock once promised expanded consciousness through reverb-soaked ...

Darren Aronofsky's films aren't always broad in their appeal, however, his new movie "Caught Stealing" is a bit different, in that it is a crime thriller (that seems to have a decent amount of humor ...

Punk songs were still in their first wave, more or less, back in 1978. But some artists were going in new directions that not only made punk rock as most people knew it seem old…but they also made ...

Punk Beyond the Music: Tracing Mutations and Manifestations of the Punk Virus, by Iain Ellis If punk is everywhere and utterly subjective, how do we keep it from dissolving into meaninglessness? Ellis ...

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 ...