The     Pop-Punk     Dad

One thing is for certain in 2018, music will get made, bands will tour, and fans will get a glimpse into the twists and turns, bumps and ben

I will be one of the first to say that I boycotted the "new pop-punk" bands. Call it a desperate attempt to hang on to the past, o

My problem with any holiday's music is that, there's no depth. Covers make it worse, there's no originality.

"The voyice yinside my yead." Post "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" Tom Delonge's voice got well, a little whiney. S

I picture your chord progressions as the walls and foundations of the house, your melody and hooks as your plumbing, and wiring and the lyri

This version is particularly bad ass because Uncle Dave Grohl and his merry band of men from the Foo Fighters plus Serj Tankian from System

To honor The Misfits, many bands have paid homage and covered many songs through out the years, but one in particular I'm choosing, that

So let's talk about how stupid I thought it would be to buy costumes for these fuzzy f***s. And the toys, and the little houses, and the

If you have a band, or in-home studio, you might not have everything up to par like a professional studio. But say you want to make demos or

A really cool idea would be a contest that bands could enter that was sponsored by something awesome where their prize would be to go on a f

Although some of these bands we didn't cover, it's important to know that we did talk about some of them. First up a band that I fou

Time. It flew by that quickly. Five years and she's off at the exact same school where I began all too many years ago. Eighteen years ago...

Before I was The Pop-Punk Dad, I was the hair metal kid. "Your voice is an instrument. Practice it."

Vacation can be a giant pain in the ass when kids are involved. Shit can hit the fan super quick with tons of time and money being...

On random mix CD's in my car...yeah I still use those because my 08' blazer wasn't fully loaded with the fucking AUX cord but came with a...