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 ...

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.

A short-lived career cemented their legacy in music history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1974, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, and Tommy Ramone formed a band out of Forest Hills, Queens. They took on ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...