Emothat “male-dominated, compositionally complicated, often pained offshoot of American punk rock,” according to NPRhas roared back into critical and commercial power. The once-grassroots scene is now ...
If you’re a fan of alternative music, you are well aware that emo is way more than just a phase. It’s a sound, it’s a subculture and it’s a lifestyle to be a forever emo kid. Emo didn’t die back in ...
It’s easy to look back at 2000s emo music with a sense of longing. After all, it boasted artists and sounds that have long since dissipated… That’s not really the case, though, is it? While we can ...
Emo is making a comeback and it's righting its past wrongs. You could ask 100 emo fans about what emo truly means and you'd probably get 200 different answers. It's a paradox that speaks to the nature ...
This week Daily Music writers look back — and reconsider — less modern pieces of music. Here, Dominic Polsinelli reflects on pivotal emo band The Get Up Kids. I often find myself playing the “which ...
When listening to Tigers Jaw’s newest release, it’s pretty obvious that some drastic changes have occurred since the group’s infancy. spin carries the same bright emo spirit that was first introduced ...
When the word “emo” last buzzed around the music press, it referred to guitar-centric bands that went from driving drafty vans between VFW halls to dominating MTV during the mid-2000s death throes of ...
Within a week of announcing the lineup in January, Las Vegas festival When We Were Young quickly sold out three consecutive one-day editions of the fest, all with the same, very mid 2000s Warped ...
I'll admit I was an emo kid. Though "emo" as a genre of music has been around since the '80s, the "emo revival" of the '90s and early 0'0s really solidified itself as a sound to listen to. With bands ...
Emo revivalists Modern Baseball hit the road for 'Pothole' video After a solid decade as the go-to soundtrack for disaffected youth, emo has pretty much suffocated itself beneath a mountain of ...