Pop punk

One result of the 70s punk explosion was pop punk. Championed by bands such as the Buzzcocks and the Ramones, the genre was never as commercially successful as the name may have suggested, but it's influence can be still be heard in many artists today; the fusion of pop melodies, rapid-fire playing of instruments, and the raw and visceral lyrics and sound of punk rock is apparent in everyone from Nirvana to Oasis.

Today, pop punk is used to describe modern punk bands with a heavy pop influence, bands such as Green Day, Rancid and The Offspring championed the genre, while Blink 182, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte brought the genre to new commercial heights in the late nineties to early 2000s. Modern pop punk bands (sometimes labeled as "emo") include Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne Heights and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.