If you’ve been a pop-punk fan for quite some time now, we’re willing to bet it was a fast, upbeat song that first made you fall in love with the genre. You probably still remember the jolt of energy ...

In the year 2021, being confined to one genre is a thing of the past. Artists have pushed the boundaries when it comes to sound, so even the lines of pop punk, hip-hop, rock, heavy metal and more can ...

Written by Al Shipley | November 30, 2020 - 9:47 am Beyond the Billboard charts, the past decade has seen countless acts who fuse more extreme sounds from the punk and hip-hop worlds gaining critical ...

Beauty and the Beat introduced the world to "We Got The Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed" — but not before the Los Angeles punk scene heard them first. Those singles, written by guitarists Charlotte ...

Pop Smoke wasn't the pioneer of the rising hip-hop sub-genre known as Brooklyn drill music, but he is definitely responsible for helping push the fledgling brand of rap music into the mainstream. A ...

Avril Lavigne, a Canadian singer/songwriter and a key musician who’s known to have popularized pop-punk music — and who paved the way for female-driven, punk-influenced pop music in the early 2000’s — ...

Paul Collins' memoir I Don't Fit In is not expressly designed to be a companion piece to his archival release Another World: The Best of the Archives (Alive Records, 2020) but it works that way ...

But if Daft Punk were a singular presence within pop culture, they were also among the most enthusiastically imitated artists of the 21st century. Forebears like Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder made ...