Simple Plan makes music for a certain set of fans and rarely tries to broaden the net. Pop punk in general, the type of pabulum done to death by Avril Lavigne and these French Canadian guys, is ...

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.

Avril Lavigne is about to begin another tour with Simple Plan (who joined her on the road last year, and on her very first tour), and ahead of those dates, they’ve shared a new collaborative song, ...

A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles. “After two albums of being successful, it felt like radio and television declared pop-punk as dead.” ...