Within a week of announcing the lineup in January, Las Vegas festival When We Were Young quickly sold out three consecutive one-day editions of the fest, all with the same, very mid 2000s Warped ...

The line, long and winding but orderly, stretched around the corner from the venue, with concertgoers dressed in everything from rave apparel to dad sneakers. Young women with glittery eyelids and ...

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2000s Pop Punk Exes Reunite On Stage for the 2025 Warped Tour originally appeared on Parade. Mom was wrong: It was never a phase. "Emo kids" are alive and well, and taking all opportunities to relive ...

Punk wasn’t supposed to be pop. But no one told the Ramones, who mined girl groups like The Ronettes and The Shangri-Las for catchy hooks to sit atop the loud and fast guitar riffs. Pop is short for ...

Anyone who’s had any kind of scene phase is likely to look back on the 2000s fondly. With numerous hit alternative albums, including Paramore‘s Riot! and Yellowcard‘s Ocean Avenue, we were really ...

As the singer of one of the most beloved pop-punk/emo bands of the last 20 years – Paramore – Hayley Williams has plenty to say about the golden age of those styles. For instance, she recently ...

It’s hard to believe but we’re already a quarter of the way through 2021… and over a year into life without live music as we once knew it. Without the ability to see bands/artists live, albums are ...

It’s been over a decade since artists such as Paramore and Fall Out Boy first graced us with their pop-punk contributions. While many of our favorites are still going strong, those early days always ...

This year’s fest returned with an ambitious lineup of more than 50 bands and four stages cranking out tracks from every ...

What’s better than screaming down the highway and singing at the top of your lungs to your favorite songs? Maybe singing along to all your favorite emo and pop-punk songs you listened to in high ...

Locally, the latest sign of that revival comes from a familiar lineage. Ultra Q is fronted by Jakob Armstrong, the son of one of Bay Area punk’s biggest stars, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe ...