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 ...

The guys of Van Full of Nuns have put together the ultimate 4/20 experience. Cashing in on the nostalgia factor of MySpace-era pop punk, the Nuns are taking their Pop Punk Nite across the state. Pop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pop punk is an interesting genre. So many millennials look back at the golden age of pop punk with a sense of longing and nostalgia. Those bands, however, seem to want nothing more than to escape the ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how modern music has become so epic? Of course, the popular artists of our day have learned a thing or two from ...

Pop-punk is alive and well, and it lives in Chicago. While the most well-known Chicago pop-punk band is probably Fall Out Boy, many other great bands hailing from the Windy City deserve some love as ...

Here are the best cover songs from 11 big pop-punk bands. When it comes to pop-punk bands playing cover songs, things typically go one of two ways. They either stay too true to the original as they ...