What is Pop Punk?

When you ask the average music fan what bands they would classify as "pop punk" you might get answers like: Blink 182, New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Bowling For Soup and possibly many more. When you ask a devoted fan of "pop punk" what bands they are listening today you might get answers like: Four Years Strong, Set Your Goals, Fireworks, and many more that the average music fans has never come across.

I've been going to see some of the new up-and-coming pop punk bands who play in Toronto, and from what I have heard these groups are a lot more "heavy" than the pop punk bands of yesteryear. Here is a Set Your Goals promotional poster I got at a pop punk show in Toronto:



The design is a little too busy for my liking, but the band is great and the poster was pretty cheap. In the interest of full disclosure I'll end the post here because I don't really know too much about pop punk in 2010. Check out my friend's blog that is far more superior in this regard:

http://poppunksnotdead.blogspot.com/