The year is only at the halfway stage, but 2025 has already been loaded with great punk rock and hardcore music. From returning heroes to a selection of great debut albums, the scene feels like it's ...

Punk rock has always been about expressing aggression and attitude as much as it is about the music. But those lines aren't so easily defined. On the surface, bands that arrived during the genre's ...

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 ...

When you release an album as monumental as Glow On and then wait four years to follow it, any direction you go in is gonna be under scrutiny. Is it too similar, or too different? Should you aim for ...