Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I haven't set foot in Hot Topic — a mall mainstay — in at least a decade. Back then, I was a little intimidated by Hot Topic's ...

Hot Topic launched its Social Collision brand two years ago as an in-house label influenced by punk music and fashion. Now, to expand the brand’s reach, Hot Topic has signed Los Angeles teen star ...

It’s not like pop punk ever left. The genre, defined at first by the infusing of pop melodies and structures into punk’s anarchic ethos, has been around since the late ‘70s and early ‘80s — with ...

You don’t have to wear all black, drape yourself in chains, or sport multiple piercings to shop at Hot Topic anymore. Back in the ’90s and 2000s, the brand was synonymous with subculture, the go-to ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. I was born smack in the middle of the '90s, which means I experienced the tail end of mall culture — ...