Simple Plan

Avril Lavigne will take her greatest hits on tour, with support at varying dates from pop punk giants Simple Plan and All Time Low.

The 2024 edition of the French festival features over 200 bands across six stages over four days.

My Chemical Romance (playing ‘The Black Parade’) and Fall Out Boy headline, and the lineup also includes Pretty Girls Make Graves’ second announced show 17 years (playing ‘The New Romance’), Dashboard Confessional (‘Dusk and Summer’), Coheed and Cambria (‘Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV’), and lots more.

My Chemical Romance (playing ‘The Black Parade’) and Fall Out Boy (seemingly doing a career-spanning set) headline, and the lineup also includes the first-announced Pretty Girls Make Graves show in 17 years, Dashboard Confessional playing ‘Dusk and Summer,’ Coheed and Cambria playing ‘Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV,’ and tons more.

The 2023 edition of the Vegas festival also featured New Found Glory, Sum 41, Hot Mulligan, Citizen, Michelle Branch, Something Corporate, and more.

Plus: The Men, Pitchfork Fest, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Jockstrap, Teen Suicide, The Offspring / Sum 41 / A Simple Plan, and more tour and festival news.

The ”Let The Bad Times Roll” tour runs through August and into early September in the US.

Green Day and blink-182 headline the 2023 edition of When We Were Young, and they’ve now added a second day with the same lineup, featuring Saves The Day, The Offspring, Rise Against, Thrice, Something Corporate, Motion City Soundtrack, Michelle Branch, Sum 41, Simple Plan, and more…

When We Were Young’s 2023 lineup also features the reunion of Something Corporate, plus Rise Against, Thrice, Sum 41, Motion City Soundtrack, Citizen, Tigers Jaw, Less Than Jake, The Front Bottoms, and more.

This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at 10 of the biggest pop punk hits that turn 20 this year, ranked from ”keep that shit in 2002” to ”holds up!”