pop punk

Knuckle Puck, Chicago's very own pop-punk powerhouse, are giving away their entire discography for free on Bandcamp. Act fast! The offer is only available until June 11. The band's Facebook post revealing the news is shown below.  Don't forget to grab the band's debut full-length album set to release later this year on Rise Records.  […]

“Defend pop-punk” has been a mantra of our scene since Man Overboard first introduced it a few years ago. But how does one really “defend” pop-punk? What does that mean? Do genres need defending? Well, in the case of pop-punk, it does need defending—and lots of it. We’re under siege, man. Other, more hipster-friendly genres […]

Okay, I’m going to be absolutely honest here. I emailed this list idea to Matt Crane and Jason Pettigrew at 2 a.m. one night and can’t really remember the context. I think I was joking. Then it became this thing—this daunting thing where everyone was all, “Cassie, you can’t actually write this.” And the more […]

As a genre, pop-punk is like one big family, but we don’t see enough of the bands covering each other. While it’s cool and downright acceptable for pop-punk bands to cover pop music, how come there’s never been a Pop-Punk Goes Pop-Punk compilation? Who wouldn’t want a collection of their favorite, young pop-punk bands covering […]

Few record labels have championed pop-punk the way Drive-Thru Records did. In the way same labels like Run For Cover and No Sleep have built a distinct musical community today, Drive-Thru did it in the early 2000s—only bigger. An up-and-coming band signing to Drive-Thru was almost guaranteed to pick up Starting Line or Early November […]

Jarrod Alonge, who’s had laughs with everyone from Kellin Quinn to Tyler Carter, has released a new song under his Sunrise Skater Kids band name (the fictional band that appears in his videos). The track, “Pop Punk Pizza Party,” is being described as “the most generic, cheesiest pop-punk song ever devised,” and so it is. […]

Pop-punk defenders Man Overboard have premiered a new music video for “Wide Awake” on the AV Club. The track is taken from the band’s latest release, Heart Attack, which is out now via Rise Records. Watch the video below, and let us know what you think. If you missed it, the band recently released another video […]

It’s time to address the elephant in the room: 5 Seconds Of Summer are blowing up. Their hit single, “She Looks So Perfect,” is taking over the radio and their EP of the same name debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 143,000 copies in its first week. Why does this matter […]

With the release of a new Gallup poll, it's now possible to quantify that seemingly uniform desire of all pop-punk bands to get the hell out of their hometowns. According to the poll, if your home state is Illinois (we see you, Fall Out Boy and Real Friends), Connecticut or Maryland, there’s a good chance you want/wanted to […]

Broadway Calls/Mixtapes Vision Quest EP At first glance, Broadway Calls and Mixtapes don’t seem to have much in common. The former are from Oregon, the latter from Ohio. Both play what should loosely be termed pop-punk, but with an added gravitas that that, on occasion, that genre inherently precludes. Mixtapes are young–both as a band […]

(Photo: Ricardo Saporta) While women standing in front of the stage is certainly nothing out of the ordinary, instances of women performing on the stage are not nearly as common. Enter Are You With The Band?, a compilation of female-fronted pop-punk bands curated by LAUREN DENITZIO, formerly of the Measure [sa] and currently of Worriers. […]