Artist: I Was a Hero
Album: Youth and Defeat
Genre: Pop-Punk
Label: Unsigned
Pop-punk is on the rise again. We’re back to that point in time where hordes of teenagers are flocking to clubs to see their favorite bands play, and as someone who remembers their first love as pop-punk (thanks to my brother Alex’s imposing of Sticks and Stones on me), this resurgence is both exciting and makes me nervous. Whenever genres “come back” like this there is a wealth of both talent and mediocrity. So when I sat down to give Upstate NY’s I Was a Hero‘s …

