In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always taken so seriously. Welcome to the first edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ of 2024! In case you missed it, we made our list of the 50 best albums of 2023 from underneath the greater punk umbrella, as well as subgenre lists like screamo, metalcore, ska-punk, and hardcore. And there’s already so much music to look forward to in the new year. I’ve put together a list of 10 of my favorite punk songs from January (technically one is from December because I didn’t do a December roundup), but first, here are some recent features: * 21 albums that defi...
