Zach Bryan Gets Married

Zach Bryan
Jason Tate

Zach Bryan and Samantha Leonard were recently married.

A short video posted by the outlet appears to show Bryan carrying Leonard, both wearing sunglasses, to a convertible decked with “Just Married” bunting and the happy couple driving away. A rep for the artist did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Happy New Year!

Jason Tate

I wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a happy (and safe) New Year’s Eve tonight. I hope everyone has a fun evening. If you’d like to join the community as the clock strikes twelve, our forums are the place to be.

Thank you to everyone that visited this website over the past year. Our official best of lists will be posted on January 5th.

Pop-Punk’s 2000s Explosion: 20 Years Later

Rolling Stone
Jason Tate

Rolling Stone revisits the early 2000’s pop-punk and emo explosion:

It all points back to 2005, the year pop punk and emo exploded into the mainstream like never before, taking over the world of Billboard charts and MTV. Fall Out Boy released their seminal record From Under the Cork Tree, trading spots on TRL with My Chemical Romance, Paramore debuted onto the scene with All We Know Is Falling, and Panic! at the Disco’s LP Fever You Can’t Sweat Out proved just how vital the internet was to the genre’s success. 

But pop-punk and emo’s meteoric rise wouldn’t be complete without bands like Motion City Soundtrack, Gym Class Heroes, and Cartel, who each helped build the genre’s wave into a tsunami in the early-aughts. Now, 20 years later, they’re reflecting on the genre’s takeover as they plot just how to keep the spirit alive.