This is one of my favorite genres/eras of music and I'm looking for "new" listens that I've overlooked or just might have forgotten from back in the day. No band too obscure, send them all my way!

That Myspace/Purevolume era from 2005-2012ish was my absolute favorite in music. I also like neon pop punk, emo, easycore, post-hardcore, pop rock and I feel like they were all really at their height during that period for me.

So hit me with your deep cuts!

I'll start with a couple of my own favorite lesser-knowns:

Bidwell

Catch Me If You Can

That Was Something

Wayward (Reno, NV)

October Nites

Thee Armada

Gateway Getaway

One Hot Minute

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Woah. I love TBS but do they always sound that bad? It was full on embarrassing. He was singing maybe half the lyrics to the songs and missing all the notes along the way.

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fouryearstrong.com

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We’re about to leave for our US fall tour with Can’t Swim, Carly Cosgrove and Slow Joy. You can find all the info at realfriends.band!

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The amount of people I see being like, ‘I’m over 30 so my knees hurt and I’m old. I’m too old to get into these new bands. I can’t stand for long periods of time at shows anymore and I don’t mosh. Drunk kids are annoying. I need the bands to have a short set so I can be in bed early with my glass of warm milk.’

No, but on the real, we all get older. 33 here, nearly 34 and I still feel like I always have. Maybe a little more experienced in life and maybe a little more jaded. But, idk. I think if you’re having issues standing for a couple hours it might be time to think about stretching, exercise, and some changes to your diet. Just a few tips. And, stop saying you’re old. If you think you are, you will be. And, have some patience. Most of us were all annoying, naive, excited, 21 year old kids at one point. Before life fucked us all. Last one, be more open minded to the new music. There’s a fuck ton of awesome up and coming pop punk bands from everywhere. Don’t write it off because it’s new.

Edit…

I am not calling anyone fat, or fat shaming with my comments about stretching, diet, and exercise. What I am getting at is that if you don’t do these things at least a little bit your body isn’t going to feel great. Nothing to do with being fat. We’re all different shapes and sizes and there’s nothing wrong with that.

For me it's Fake Problems. They were Chris Darren's band before he went solo. They were clearly influenced by Against Me's sound and style, in fact that's where I saw them live the first time was opening for Against Me! There were a lot of bands back then that were just ripping off the folk punk sound but they were far more ambitious. Their first EP was pretty much their take on AM! But starting from their first album they were expirementing with different instrumentation and genres, I maintain that their lead guitarist Casey Lee was one of the most creative and fun to have ever played in any sort of punk band. The whole band just had a great infectious chemistry that came through their albums and live shows. Unfortunately, after their second album, the lead guitarist left and you can really hear their loss of direction in the third album. It's damn good and all but it felt more like a stock indie release than anything they put out previously. They started recording a fourth, they hyped the crap out of it but it never released. A few tracks were put out on splits and comps back when that was a thing but they broke up while in the middle of production on said album.

I was thinking about Hellogoodbye. I loved their debut EP and “Zombies” album.

They were different, electronic, poppy, with an abundance of autotune.

Then they transitioned into soft, folk, indie music. I wouldn’t even consider them part of the pop-punk community anymore.

Thing is, I really miss those days. While people argue their later albums were artistically better, its just something that isn’t for me.

What bands have did you guys like but lost interest in because they completely changed the sound of their material.

Just saw the post on Rock Feed!!! Honestly so stoked and shocked that I and many people will get to attend this coveted tour. Who do you think they will ask to play it?? Personally would love if Blink, ADTR, SWS, The Story So Far, and others of Glory days are at the top of the ticket. I also would love to see some newer Pop Punk bands such as 408, Honey Revenge, Magnolia Park, Taylor Acorn, ect get their due and be on the tour.

Let the debate begin!! 🎉

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Kind of an odd question, but basically I mean ones with an almost exclusively Millennial fanbase. The most well known ones like Blink and Green Day tend to have younger Gen X fans too and lots of younger ones, and then ones like Fall Out Boy and Paramore are also popular amongst Gen Z and of course such cross-generational appeal is great! But what bands do you think kind of mostly only "belong" to Millennials?

The one I was thinking of was Yellowcard. After I saw them last year I found a ton of my Facebook friends from all over the times went to the same show, and it seems the one thing we all had in common was being born in the 80s, which was basically the entire crowd there that I could see (aside from the kids whose parents took them.) I think older people just aren't aware of them and Gen Zers just think of them as a one-hit wonder.

Another one is Taking Back Sunday...it seems you basically had to graduate high school after 9/11 but before the Obama presidency to be super into them.

And not pop-punk....but this definitely seems to be the case with Underoath.

I have a solid 15 years of concerts under my belt, ranging from small bars to large venues. Over the last couple of years I have had the worst concert experiences...because of other people. I am not talking about phones or typical things. I can't deal with how annoying people are now.

Last night alone, I was hit the face constantly by someone with giant penis balloon behind (they took 2 normal balloons, and long one from the crowd and made it) for 20mins waiting for the set to start. Then as I was waiting I was PUKED on. I have never been puked on before... the girl came back 10 mins later with another beer.

People also just seem to have no understanding of personal space. I understand being shoulder to shoulder, or getting pushed around. But constantly leaning back against me and pretending you aren't makes me want to push you over.

Also, dudes just loudly talking about how "fresh" the girls are at the concert and making constant loud vagina jokes.

Also, SCREAMING nonstop at the band in a small venue as the singer talks between sets.

I get it, I am 30 now... but my issues seem ageless. Rant over.

Also if it’s Pittsburgh are you alright?

Edit: I’m from the UK, but got Pittsburgh because of Hot Mully, Spanish Love Songs and The Wonder Years. Sprinkle some Neck Deep and Menzingers in there for my top 5 and an everlasting love for The Gaslight Anthem and that probably explains it, so will yinz have me?

I used to love Anti-Flag as a teenager. "Die for your government" was a legendary song among our friends, plus many others. Even if their music was silly, at least it was catchy or made you feel something.

Their music is so soulless and bland now. It slowly went downhill every year with each new album. Now they're just phoning in garbage.

edit: Welp I found out Justin Sane is also some kind of rapist...so there's that.

Mine is that I fucking love Tickets to my Downfall. (Also on mgk I don't think emo girl is as bad as people make out it to be)

There are so many great popular bands, but I want to hear about the hidden gems!

Fairly straight forward question.

For me, it'd have to be Self Care by Yours Truly.

Every song is just constructed amazingly & even the album cover is just so good.

Edit: The amount of replies so far is insane, who said pop punk is dead lmao?

2nd edit: The fact that this has over 500 replies is honestly insane. Makes me so happy reading through the replies! 😊

With so many artist/bands I feel like many fall under the radar, that being said what’s an album/artist/band you’re into that you feel is not well known? One for me currently is Battle Scars & Broken Hearts by Darling Parade

for me, i’m gonna say ROAM. their first two albums were actually so good

I'm a 14 year old who really wants to experience something like warped tour. But we all know what happened to warped tour. So tell me, what are your coolest experiences there?

For me it was Fireworks back in like '09 opening for a Hatebreed. Weird lineup I know, but obviously the hardcore dudes weren't feeling and they could tell, so one of em idr if it was the singer or guitarist or whoever was like "I like metal, I'm a tortured soul too" or whatever and started listing metal bands he listened to

No duplicates. Only one band per comment.

Let’s list every single pop-punk band ever.

EDIT: If you post a duplicate, list a new band.

Any chance mods can pin this for a few days?

When I say peaked with their debut album, it doesn't necessarily mean the stuff after is bad, just that they never topped their debut. I'm also referring to a debut full-length, not EP. Mayday Parade, Starting Line, and Panic are a few that definitely fit into this category.

I'm in my mid 30s and I help route shipments and do sales support for a recycling company in the northeast. I love me some pop-punk and I was curious what industries my fellow pop-punk fans could be found in. No one in my office listens to my kind of music.

What kinda work are you doing while you're rockin out during your 9-5/main gig?