It's hard to argue there was a more important — and surprising — musician in 2021 than Olivia Rodrigo. She went from relative unknown to complete superstar, and she did it using, in part, the revived ...

There was hope at the beginning of 2021, and then there was a slap in the face. We have languished; we have endured an ever-mutating and unforgiving plague; we have survived insurrections from ...

EPs, splits, and other small releases have been a key part of punk since the genre’s inception, and even today, those types of releases are often some of the best. We included a handful of EPs on our ...

Pump up the volume and check out some of our favorite pop-punk and punk-rock songs from 2021 ahead.

When we did our 2020 ska recap, I said that 2021 seemed poised to be an even bigger year for ska than 2020 was, and wow did that turn out to be an understatement. This year gave us three great new ...

They called it 2021, but it really felt like an extension of 2020, didn’t it? Everything feels like one big blob now, where things are bad and good and in between, and the lines that separate them are ...

Olivia Rodrigo topped the Billboard charts in 2021. Her success is part of a larger trend of young women and people of color leading a resurgence of angry pop-punk. Who run the world? Girls.

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 ...

It might seem random, but the worlds of K-pop and 2000s pop-punk collided last week — a new remix of the K-pop girl group TWICE's song "I Can't Stop Me" emerged with a guest spot from none other than ...

Welcome to the latest edition of Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the ...