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 ...

Daft Punk released four studio albums, two live albums, and one soundtrack album in their impactful career, but which of the ...

There’s no shortage of punk bands in this city, but we were particularly impressed by Tuff Bluff‘s self-titled full-length debut, which dropped in May 2024. The twelve-track album is authentic, raw ...

It goes overlooked how the pop-punk genre can get dark sometimes. As is often the case with pop music, the catchiness of certain records can be so close to perfection that listeners overlook the dark ...

It’s only natural that a band so well-known for their catchy hooks would dish out a very memorable love song or two. “Good Good Things” is a particularly sweet song, one that differs quite a bit from ...

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 ...