The line, long and winding but orderly, stretched around the corner from the venue, with concertgoers dressed in everything from rave apparel to dad sneakers. Young women with glittery eyelids and ...

The December roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a ...

Emo already had enough trouble competing for your attention in recent years; the biggest names of the revival had eased into legacy mode, releasing remasters and reimaginings of their most beloved ...

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 ...

When I was in high school, it was a thrill to live the emo lifestyle — it was middle America's answer to the Sex Pistols. Like me, emo bands were misunderstood. They were decidedly outcast, and that ...

Sometime in the eighties, the story goes—and every musical genre is ultimately a story—a few bands in America’s hypermasculine hardcore-punk scene started making music with poetic, emotionally ...

Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel reflect on emo's early-aughts takeover - and how they're keeping that spirit alive 20 years later ...

Emo rap is massive, and there’s no other way to put it. Candid lyrics centered on emotional and confessional subject matter make up the sub-genre, which, at times, merges hip-hop and rock music. Sad ...

Emo was at a crossroads in 2015. The “emo revival” movement had become all the rage in late 2013, after the music press caught on, and with the it feeling like the ceiling for commercial success and ...

Like disco before it, emo music and its fans spend much of their time in the spotlight being mocked and ridiculed. The music is whiny and dramatic, critics say, and so-called “emo kids” are ...

Emo. All of us have heard, embraced, quoted and lived by the music. Many of its practitioners have welcomed and flat out rebuked the term. But nobody has really nailed down a diehard definition of ...

Four years ago in Austin, Texas, at a teenage punk show featuring the all-girl band, Cat Scratch, none of the members looked old enough to drive. A girl in the audience, maybe 13 or 14, wore choppy ...