If ever there was a genre of music that begged for attention — both good and bad — it’d be punk rock. And the first thing that a burgeoning punk band has to get you in its grips is awesome album art.

This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 20 bands from the mainstream pop punk era paying tribute to the comparatively underground legends who influenced them, through the lens of cover songs ...

The '80s were a great time for music, and many pop-punkers were just discovering music in their youth around that time, so it makes sense you'd find plenty of pop-punk '80s covers. There's no other ...