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 French rapper Orelsan recently released a new album called La fuite en avant, and it closes with a song featuring former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Exploring the illustrious history behind '96 Tears' by Question Mark and the Mysterians, a garage rock masterpiece which paved the way for the future of punk.

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 ...

Box Car Racer, +44, and Texas Is the Reason are all among the best pop punk bands that only released one album, but made it ...

Fans love to debate the first punk band. Kinks or Kingsmen? Or did they have too much proto in their punk and it really didn’t start until the Dolls or the Damned came along a decade later? Doesn’t ...

It’s not that Heavy Petal is swept along on some prevailing sense of urgency, but the four-piece punk band seems to be imbued ...

The Monkees and punk rock debuted in the same year: 1966. The two battled for chart supremacy. Interestingly, Jim Morrison of The Doors had a similar view of both. 1 of the masterminds behind the 1st ...