Music

Here's what your favourite pop-punk bands looked like in their earliest days

by Mark Teo

Punk rock, and especially pop-punk, is supposed to be a young man’s game—but it’s rarely that in practise. After all, plenty of punk bands now tour well into their 40s—NOFX, for instance, are well into 30s as a band. The Other F word is a film about pop-punk dads. And, like, how old is Noodles from the Offspring? 75? Either way, many pop-punk might not be young anymore, but there was a time when they weren’t sagging bags of faded ink. Here, we document our favourite pop-punks in their earliest days.