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 ...

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 ...

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.) ...

This is probably the most famous example of pop punk bands that successfully transitioned to pop. Back in the early 2000s, Fall Out Boy was definitely on the emo bandwagon. In fact, they were ...

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.

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).