You can follow that thread directly from Green Day through blink-182 and NFG to arguably the current wearers of the pop-punk crown, All Time Low. In an interview on Medium.com, frontman Alex Gaskarth said: “When we first started the band we were really all about the pop-punk scene and bands like New Found Glory, Green Day, blink-182, they’re sort of like the stapled stands that encouraged us to start playing music as a group and they all just brought us together and all had an equal responsibility to making All Time Low.” The Baltimore mob actually took their name from a New Found Glory lyric, but Green Day were the fount from which all these bands essentially sprang.