MxPx - Teenage Politics

What this video is

The 'Teenage Politics' music video exists at a precise inflection point in mid-1990s American punk: the moment when faith-based indie labels like Tooth & Nail were producing punk rock content with genuine youth-culture credibility, not yet sanitized for Christian retail. MxPx, formed by teenagers in Bremerton, Washington, embodied the overlap between suburban Pacific Northwest youth identity and a punk ethos that…

Why it matters

This video is an early artifact of Christian pop-punk's crossover moment — a genre that would remain largely invisible to mainstream music historians despite significant commercial traction on Tooth & Nail Records in the mid-90s. As one of the first music videos from this subculture to attract…

The director

Darren Doane (b. September 20, 1972) is an American filmmaker and music video director with a career spanning over 500 music videos. He emerged from the 1990s underground punk and alternative scenes, working extensively with Tooth & Nail and Epitaph-adjacent…