pop punk

While the genre of pop punk has spanned multiple decades, the late 1990s and early 2000s wave was where the genre first gained widespread popularity. With pop punk making a resurgence that doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, now seems like the perfect opportunity to take a...

Impact’s new series ‘Impact’s Music Essentials’ will introduce our readers to ten songs from a particular genre, in order to provide a starting place for those who are unfamiliar with the genre but would like to broaden their musical horizons. In the first instalment of the series, Gemma Cockrell...

Gemma reviews new pop punk album "Tell me about Tomorrow" from jxdn. ...

Gemma Cockrell reviews Waterparks' latest album 'Greatest Hits'....

As rapper-turned-rocker Machine Gun Kelly's fourth LP, Tickets to My Downfall, tops the Billboard charts, Gemma Cockrell reflects on his plucky evolution from rowdy hiphop terror to reviver of the dated pop-punk canon. ...

Leaps and bounds above their debut full-length Wishful Thinking, 2015 follow-up Life’s Not Out to Get You proved that Neck Deep aren’t a one-trick pony. With The Peace and the Panic the Welsh quintet flex their creative muscles even further, but this increased experimentation means the record sometimes suffers...

California is Blink-182’s first attempt since founding member Tom DeLonge left to search for UFO’s (I kid you not, this is his official reason for quitting Blink!). It’s simply a strange album; definitely Blink, but not as you know them. Replacing DeLonge with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, the sound...