The February roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.

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

Rebel girls and rude boys, this one’s for you: tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke invites everyone to sing along with his or her favorite songs for a good cause, as the Denver Health Collective hosts a ...

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 ...

It was around the turn of the 21st century when pop punk music really started to hit the mainstream. Bands like Blink-182 and artists like Avril Lavigne really put the fun, energetic genre into the ...

CM Punk, a Midwest king, is supporting his Midwest queen. Last October, the Celtic Warrior Workouts series returned with Randy Orton as its first guest. In the latest episode, host Sheamus partook in ...

On Monday morning, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known as the iconic French dance duo Daft Punk, released a cryptic eight-minute video on their YouTube channel titled ...

Even before the Sex Pistols imploded, the punk rock formula was already being spliced and dissected up North, re-imagined as something less merchandise-minded.