Here’s a special quarantine edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre,’ with 10 great ’90s punk live videos and a playlist to occupy your time. I picked just 10 videos, but obviously there’s a near-endless ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. For many college students, reliving the glory days of punk music is a constant urge ...

It’s easy to mistake the foundations of pop punk as being laid in the 2000s. After all, that’s when the mainstream radio takeover of the genre occurred. As it turns out, though, we really have the ...

When bands like Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX and Rancid helped pop punk explode in 1994/1995, the mainstream called it a “punk revival” because it was the first time that punk had a real mainstream ...

Punk bands love to cover pop songs. If there’s a universal thread running through the genre from practically the moment of its birth to the present, it’s the continual appropriating of sugary-sweet ...

Here are 11 essential '90s punk albums you should absolutely own on vinyl. Before diving into these titles and trying to track them down, there are a few important things you should know. First, ...

Welcome to the Music Roundtable, a blatant rip-off of TV Club’s TV Roundtable feature. Here, music writers and fans discuss recent reissues, hot new releases, or just records we like. This week, we’re ...