The October roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.

Who says punk rock can't be a bit tender? These punk rock love songs are some of the most memorable tunes out there.

The post The 10 Best Pop-Punk Songs You Blasted at the Skatepark appeared first on Consequence. It’s a hot summer day and the session is kicking off at the local skatepark. Bowls are carved, teens ...

Punk rock, a genre that’s known for being explicit, aggressive, and wildly feverish might be the best to capture a feeling as intense and complicated as love. For those who find themselves jilted this ...

On Monday morning, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known as the iconic French dance duo Daft Punk, released a cryptic eight-minute video on their YouTube channel titled ...

Punk rock music—that blistering, snarling, enlivening style—has exhilarated audiences for some 50 years now. What rose to prominence in the mid-1970s has become a sound for the generations. Never ...

Every day, thousands of people use the term “fuck it.” Not because they’re giving up, but because sometimes throwing caution and rationality into the wind is what can teach us the most. Life is all ...

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 ...