Avril Lavigne

If pop punk is alive and breathing, it’s because artists like Maggie Lindemann are administering the electric pulse.

Effortlessly balancing the old and the new, the singer’s set spanned her entire discography of bedroom-pop anthems and heartaches.

Anticipated as a potentially promising successor to 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, the album instead plods through purposeless self-awareness.

Although the new year may not be unfolding how you expected, this playlist will inspire you to reflect on the passing year and enter 2022 with a fresh, eager perspective.

As one of the first performances of her lifE tour, WILLOW’s San Francisco performance solidified the young artist as a multidimensional powerhouse to be reckoned with.

LØLØ may be relatively new to the scene, but her recent releases live up to the tour’s namesake — she serves as a conduit through which pop-punk is revitalized.

This 11-track pop-punk collection is guaranteed to leave listeners either aching to mosh, or sprinting to their nearest Hot Topic. 

Deep down, I know that Myspace is a public platform, but I continue to treat it like my own secret corner of the internet.

If music is a conversation, then I can block my ears to everyone around me; I commune only with the past. 

The Bay Area is one of the hottest spots west of the Mississippi for live entertainment.