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    On its debut album, Meet Me @ The Altar carries a pop-punk legacy into the future

    For many fans, MM@TA has become the face of a new, more inclusive era for pop-punk. But Past // Present // Future also proves the Florida-based band is deeply tied to the genre's history.
    by Cyrena Touros Mar 10, 2023 5 minutes
    Meet Me @ The Altar's debut album, <em>Past // Present // Future</em>, features a punchy rhythm section and a momentum that reaches out a hand to yank potential friends into the fun.

    It can be a disorienting moment, when a broken shard of yourself kept cushioned to your chest reflects the light of thousands of others like it. For the last few years, closeted pop-punk fans from all walks of life have been stumbling around sun-blinded from the glare of it. OK, it's cool that everyone loves Olivia Rodrigo now, but where the hell did you all come from?

    But just because you alone setting your MySpace page to play "" and using as an away message doesn't mean you actually were. It's easy to forget the sheer commercial power of that mid-2000s heyday, with bands like Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects and Good Charlotte taking over not just ye olde bastions of popular music MTV and VH1, but spawning Top 40 radio hits like "," "" and "." An average of attended the Vans Warped Tour every summer. Pop-punk fans are legion.

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