Our punk column 'In Defense of the Genre' is back with the 15 best songs of July and late June, plus a roundup of recent ...

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 ...

Punk rock has always been about expressing aggression and attitude as much as it is about the music. But those lines aren't so easily defined. On the surface, bands that arrived during the genre's ...

Here's the best pop-punk album from very year of the 1980s. Genres don’t appear overnight. They are the result of a natural evolution, where musical styles collide to create something new and dynamic.

Rock fans can likely belt out this 1976 track's leading chant, which has not only become a punk rock anthem, but one often used at sporting events. In the mid '70s, the American punk rock band the ...