Joshua Kleinberg

If the phrase "pop-punk" brings to mind youngsters with tube socks on their arms and bubblegum slack-rock issuing from punchable faces (looking at you, Tom Delonge, wherever you are), it may be time for a terminology update. The new generation of catchy scream-along rock is poignant, unreserved, and, perhaps most...

If wild songs are born in garages and dreamy ones are written in bedrooms, the self-reflectively droll angst of Pity Sex's music is surely a product of the Midwestern basement from whence it came. On the group's second full-length, White Hot Moon, the fidelity has peaked higher and the brooding...