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 ...

Blink-182 had slowed down quite a bit when the 2010s arrived. We’re glad they didn’t disband entirely. The 2011 album Neighborhoods was their first album in a whopping eight years, and it didn’t ...

In a world of revivals – a product of what the writer Simon Reynolds termed “retromania” – some stick and some don’t. The post-punk revival of the Noughties, for example, lasted significantly longer ...

From Blink-182 and Green Day to Yellowcard and Paramore, many pop-punk bands have stolen the hearts of rock music lovers. Though the genre has slightly shifted as the years (or decades) have passed, ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

Pop-punk has definitely seen a resurgence in the last couple of years and one of the potential breakout bands from this latest wave of pop-punk acts is girlfriends, the duo featuring Apple Music 1 and ...

Pop punk found new life in 2020. Young bands blossomed, while hip-hop and pop acts picked up guitars. Maybe you’re one of the many fans who rediscovered old favorites on social media. Possibly, Chase ...

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When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas ...