A fine whine imported from Canada. Simple Plan was a Canadian act that positioned itself as “pop-punk”–they had the board shorts, the sneakers, the spiky haircut. But listening to the band’s biggest U ...

There’s something about seeing a band like Simple Plan live that reminds you why pop punk hit so hard in the first place. On September 12th, they took over The Armory in Minneapolis—and for anyone ...

Pop-punk is not dead. In fact, it never grew up. Avril Lavigne and more than 10,000 fans proved it on a rainy Wednesday night at the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview in Syracuse.

Calling Simple Plan a pop-punk band is unfair to both the genre and the band. Although the Canadian quintet have headlined Warped Tour, they’ve always been more of a pop band who happen to like ...