Pop punk and emo bands like Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel took over in 2005. Now, they're back and ...

Staring off wistfully into the middle distance, thinking, “Man, the mid-2010s were a time .” Whether or not you believe it ...

Emo (noun): a hotly contested music genre where bands and fans alike refuse to agree on who qualifies for a place in the rankings for all eternity, where no band admits to falling into the criteria of ...

Mildflowers is a new emo project from Craig Woods (who’s in Engines and puts on the annual Two Piece Fest) and Shawn Decker (who runs Middle-Man Records and plays in Coma Regalia and a bunch of other ...

1996 was a historic year for emo. Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbreaker had already helped popularize the melodic “second wave” of the genre that took off in the ’90s, but ’96 is really when you ...

The music industry was a very different time in the early 2000s. Rock, as always, had evolved in new directions, spawning new genres and new iterations of previously founded genres through the ...

At the start of this century, as MySpace and LiveJournal were remaking the social hierarchies of youth culture, a crushing wave surged into mainstream view. The aesthetic movement that history would ...

Let’s just blame it all on Washington, D.C. — it never gets old. The first known usage of emo dates back to the mid-1980s, when “emo-core” served as shorthand for “emotional hardcore,” a label applied ...

Emo is hard to define for many reasons, including its vague characteristics and the fact that many of the most famous bands commonly thought of as being emo try to distance themselves from the tag. As ...

Tonight (December 3) in L.A. the long-running Emo Nite will be celebrating its seventh anniversary by taking over Hollywood spot the Avalon for a Heaven-themed party. Having started in L.A. in 2014, ...