The     Pop-Punk     Dad

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...

There's a lot of rad games out there with a ton of rad soundtracks, from Chrono Trigger and & Contra with their fast up tempo fast...

It's true that kid's brains are fed non-stop garbage all day long. From the stuff on television, Internet, even school and that common...

With the announcement of Warped Tour and the excitement going around I figured I'd leave today a post of what albums got me into punk...

After much reluctance with lack of room, and one too many times playing with her cousins Barbie dreamhouse and asking for one, once we...

Movies with punk soundtracks go hand in hand. Also believe or not kids there was a time before Al Gore invented the internet (ya he...

Children are walking balls of germs and collateral damage. Mine is no exception. While tracking demos at 2AM, I set my acoustic guitar on...

Getting off task and having a bit of self-diagnosed ADD, so I get lost in the dark woods of the Internet. Tonight was one of those...

Over the years mainstream music has gotten watered down, but some has slipped it's way through the cracks especially the two huge punk a