Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

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 ...

On the evening of July 5, 1976, the Ramones headlined their first concert on British soil. Gathered that night at Dingwalls, ...

Ever wondered how modern music has become so epic? Of course, the popular artists of our day have learned a thing or two from the OGs in their genre. If you’re looking to learn more about the ...

Punk rock started in 1976 in New York, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum. The revolution they inspired split the history of rock & roll in half. But ...