What Happened To Pop-Punk? Why The Genre Declined & How It’s Finally Getting A Resurgence

For millennials like myself, pop-punk was a powerfully formative music genre. Throughout our childhoods, it was one of the most dominant kinds of music on radio stations of all stripes, finding appeal across demographics thanks to its mass-market distillation of punk’s energy and aesthetics, combined with the upbeat accessibility of traditional pop music…