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All right.

So last two pieces of housekeeping is gorgeous, gorgeous.

My queer pop party is happening on both coasts in the coming weeks.

We are in L.A. on August 25th at Resident.

And we are in New York for our second New York party.

Yay, on September 16th at the Sultan Room in Bushwick.

I'd love to see you guys there. This is going to be so much fun.

I can't wait for these parties. Links to my tickets for both of those parties will be in the show

notes of this episode. So yeah, I hope to see some of you guys there. All right. So this is a B-side

episode. A topic that has come up recently on the show a lot because of the recent revival of pop punk is pop punk.

So I wanted to do an episode where we're digging into the history of pop punk, how it came together,

how it originated with punk in the 70s, how it morphed into something that became adjacent

to pop music in the 90s into the early 2000s, the idea of how something as iconoclastic as punk

music and something as commercially driven as pop music could even come together. It seems like

a bit of a opposing terms situation, but obviously it's produced a lot of really memorable

music from my childhood, from Blink 182 to Avril Levine, some 41, that whole wave.

And then, of course, it's gone through an interesting recent revival, obviously in the late 2000s where a lot of rappers picked up the mantle, like little UziVirt, little peep.

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