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With Atlus, a menu is never just a menu – it’s tactile, animated, elaborate. They’re difficult to make, because they’re ...
Big stars are making pop punk hot again—reviving debates about authenticity, cash grabs and selling out. SZA, for example, is a standard-bearer for R&B music. But for one song on her latest hit ...
Man Overboard have redesigned their iconic “defend pop punk” tee shirt to read “defund the police,” and 100% of profits from the shirt will be donated to Black Lives Matter. You can order ...
And pop-punk, whose resurgence began a couple of years ago thanks in part to the massive success of Olivia Rodrigo, whose hits draw on the sounds – speedy, melodic, raw – of 25 years earlier ...
I think a lot of the resurgence of pop-punk in general started when Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker teamed up for [MGK’s 2020 album] Tickets to My Downfall, and that album was so successful ...
When you think “pop punk,” Blink-182 is one of the first two bands you probably think of. (The second band will be coming up next, don’t worry.) ...
The pop punk/emo genre crossed into the musical mainstream in the mid-2000s, Petracca and Freed say, and by the 2010s, it had largely fallen out of fashion.
A popular pop-punk band much-beloved by the emo community has confirmed they’ve parted ways with one of their key members. And said emo community — in expected emo fashion — has practically ...
7-Eleven is investing deeply in the pop-punk market. The convenience store chain has struck a deal to become the naming sponsor for the annual Las Vegas emo and pop-punk nostalgia festival When We ...
Paramore, Green Day, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne and more. Pop-punk isn’t often associated with romance. Bitterness, heartbreak, teenage silliness, railing against conformity – these are the ...
Historically, pop-punk has been both very male and very white. Songs were often puerile – filled with innuendo (even now, deep into middle age, Blink-182’s stage banter revolves around sex).