On the one hand, it feels natural: pop culture is cyclical, and sooner or later these sounds and styles were bound to roll around again. But there’s also a more sinister correlation between its new ...

Many pop icons began their career in punk rock, but it’s not as shocking as it seems. Punk began as an underground movement with DIY independence that was instinctively anti-pop. But many punk ...

Avril Lavigne is an artist whose impact on the pop-punk scene is still deeply felt today. The Canadian singer emerged as a prominent voice in the early 2000s (especially among youth and young women), ...

Twenty years after Avril Lavigne released her first album, "Let Go," the pop-punk star is back with a new record. Her return coincides with a resurgence of the pop-punk genre. Olivia Rodrigo brought ...

In Dan Ozzi’s book Sellout, Mark Hoppus responded to the idea that blink-182’s popularity was “ruining the scene” by saying, “I want my music on the radio. I love our band and I want everybody to hear ...

Explore pop punk’s popularity. FeFe Dobson helps us answer the question, “Why now?” We are amidst a pop-punk revival. This time around, Gen-Z is at the forefront, and artists like WILLOW, Meet Me @ ...

While Doja Cat primarily exists in the pop world, the artists has shown her desire to push boundaries over the years, delivering a metal performance at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards and covering a ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. The scene is one of the movie's best partly because actor ...

Maligned by the more serious areas of rock's fanbase, pop-punk has had to fight for respect over the years. Much like the nu metal movement, it's a scene that has produced hit bands, long careers, and ...

For the past couple of years, the phrase “pop-punk revival” has been uttered and typed so many times that any meaning it could’ve ever possibly held has completely faded. We have Blink-182 drummer and ...