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 ...

No matter the wave or subgenre, most emo bands seem to have a knack for covering songs from the ’80s and ’90s. Maybe it’s the unexpectedness of hearing a screaming version of a-ha’s “Take on Me” or an ...

This article was originally published in 2021. 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 ...

The emo floodgates opened in 2002. In honor of their 20th anniversaries, this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at the best emo and post-hardcore albums from that year. Of course, when you ...

The Chicago area also gave the fifth wave a reference point in the form of a suburban college student with a solo project called Heccra. His output all dates from the early 2010s, and though it was ...

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 ...

This year’s Best Friends Forever festival featured a reunited Texas Is The Reason and Knapsack, Burning Airlines, Rival Schools, Jawbreaker, Mineral’s final show, and a Jimmy Eat World headlining set ...

If you Google the word emo, you'll find all sorts of definitions: "a type of guitar-based rock music derived from punk rock but characterized by highly emotive, melodramatic, and deeply personal ...