pop punk
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The New York songwriter’s latest work feels like a pale presentation of the anthemic punk style of his previous record, Worry.
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East Coast rock outfit TWIABP returns with a simplified take on their trademark fusion of post-rock and emo.
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The World Is a Beautiful Place has announced their third album, titled Always Foreign, and with that has come a somewhat divisive lead single. The sound the band goes for here is closer to pop punk than Midwest emo, but I can appreciate it as one of the catchiest songs
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Melbourne’s Smith Street Band have a lot going for them with their emo-tinged pop punk sound and passionate frontman Wil Wagner, but are let down by some familiar production, basic song structures, and cringeworthy lyrics on their latest album.
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Remo Drive keeps the torch lit for emo with their promising debut.
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Green Day’s latest release isn’t quite as cringeworthy as I was expecting, but there are still plenty of cringes to be had.
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Festival Song by Jeff Rosenstock Jeff Rosenstock comes through with probably the most biting and clever pop punk song I’ve heard so far in 2016.
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The lead single from Stage Four, a new album by post-hardcore group Touché Amoré, out September 16 via Epitaph. The band seems to be heading into a more accessible, pop punk-infused direction here, but still delivers impassioned performances.
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At its best, the new PUP album is a clever, witty piece of modern pop punk, At its worst, it’s a temper tantrum.
