Gothic rock music, especially from the genre’s heyday in the 80s, is often known for its gloomy subject matter and sound. However, not all gothic rock songs have that weepy element. In fact, some ...

Remember Mayday Parade? This pop punk outfit made it big with “Jamie All Over” in 2008. The song quickly became the band’s most commercially successful hit and was a stellar opener for the band’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punk rock music has always existed as the antithesis to commercially successful, mainstream music. It came to prominence in the ...

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 ...

The first music I ever bought with my own money was a trio of singles that I loved when I was eleven years old. It was 1973. I went down to the local record store and picked “Brandy” by Looking Glass ...

While not readily associated with the new wave, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen once revealed the punk that stirred him the most.

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 ...

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Punk rock is usually understood as a 1970s genre. This ignores the fact that several 1960s bands were making music that could reasonably described as punk rock, including The Doors, Paul Revere & the ...

At long last, Paul McCartney made a song with The Rolling Stones. Jagger explained why the song is a punk rock song. He also discussed the importance of the tune given the history of The Beatles and ...