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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

I’m accustomed to mainstream year-end lists providing a distorted reflection of my own experience. But, in a fitting coda to a frankly hallucinatory 2024, it feels like my own year-end list was lying ...

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 ...

A new orchestral twist on classic emo music is coming to MGM Springfield as Emo Orchestra teams up with The Spill Canvas for a one-night performance in the ARIA Ballroom.

Her messages is clear: If we're going to revisit emo, we must address the bad with the good and make adjustments ...

Has any word been more misappropriated than emo? It’s been used to describe everything from people to events to films to clothing, but when it comes to encapsulating the specific music that inspired ...

Discover what makes the Emo tiny robot so appealing, how it works, where it fits in the world of AI companions, and which ...