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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.) ...
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 ...
This is so good! Simple Plan is a beloved band on the pop punk scene most memorably with the hit “I’m Just A Kid” back in 2002 along with tons of great songs from the genre over the years.
FARGO — Machine Gun Kelly’s sixth album, “Mainstream Sellout,” may be a tongue-in-cheek swipe at critics of his transition from rap to pop punk, but the singer is having the last laugh ...
Together, the band is both a continuation of an early 2000s pop-punk tradition and a reinvention. For fans of that phase of the genre, it doesn't get any bigger than bands like Panic!
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).