I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point in my lifetime, “lo-fi” went from being an adjective to being a genre. By the mid-1990s, artists were making a conscious decision to eschew the ...

There was a point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the term “pop-punk” was used as a pejorative against Green Day, Blink-182, and others. “Basket Case” is too catchy. Green Day can’t possibly be ...

But the success of grunge and alternative music also gave rise to a new generation of, not punk-adjacent, but straight-up punk bands. So let’s look at the year punk broke (again) and revisit three ...