pop-punk
JUICEBOXXX RECOMMENDS: A Nine-Hour Pop Punk Spotify Playlist
“It is time to admit that The Spits and Avril Lavigne are on the same level.”
Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré) on the Power of Kindness
Hours after his mother died, a brief encounter with Canadian band Chixdiggit gave him hope.
On Jimmy Eat World and Finding Your Favorite Band at 37
Amy Fleisher Madden (Fiddler Records) reflects on age, obsession and fandom.
Talkhouse Playlist: PUP Find Balance on Tour
How not to be overwhelmed by music when you're inundated with sound.
Bree McKenna (Tacocat, Childbirth) Points out the Sad Irony Inherent in the Attacks Against Brock Turner’s Friend
The situation caused her to think of her own music community and how it mishandles the subject of rape.
Thin Lips’ Riff Hard Refuses to Let You Run from the Truth
Anika Pyle (Chumped, Katie Ellen) found the Philly band’s debut record to be almost too real.
Reading Music: I Finished Tom DeLonge’s 704-page, Dense-as-Fuck Alien Novel
Tacocat’s Bree McKenna wants to believe…in the former Blink-182 guitarist’s newest literary effort.
Reading Music: I Wish John Doe’s New Book Were More About John Doe
Emily Nokes of Tacocat reviews the X founding member's book, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Reading Music: I Read John Popper’s Autobiography and Then Opened for Him at a Bernie Sanders Rally
Tacocat’s Bree McKenna reviews the Blue Traveler frontman’s new book.
Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz) Talks Miguel’s Wildheart
Miguel’s libidinous album is a musical portrayal of intimacy that expertly parallels the stylistic shifts and complexities of sexuality itself.
Dale Eisinger (YVETTE) Talk’s Travis Barker’s Can I Say
Our writer feels kinship with Blink-182’s drummer, but the themes of desire, guilt and redemption in Travis Barker’s memoir will resonate with anyone.
An Excerpt From How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records by Larry Livermore (the Lookouts, the Potatomen)
In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the Lookout! Records co-founder tells the short but sweet tale of his own band, the Potatomen.
