While emo music might be most associated with sadness and heartbreak, those lovelorn artists couldn’t have written such songs without experiencing some serious romantic highs. Since it’s Valentine’s ...

Let us make a toast to modern emo. The drama! The poetry! The minimum daily requirement of whining! Let’s make it perfectly clear right now that we’re not throwing shade on the genre. We’ve come to ...

Slowcore is bigger than ever (thanks TikTok), and all the increased attention on the ’90s-centric genre has got me thinking about something that I think could use a little more love: slowcore’s ...

In 2009, Dashboard Confessional released what its frontman Chris Carrabba felt might be the band’s sixth and final album, “Alter the Ending,” a capstone to a decadelong run that saw the band go from ...

Emo music means many different things to fans, from the genre’s forebearers in ‘80s D.C. to ‘90s godfathers like Jawbreaker and Cap’n Jazz, to the boom in popularity around the early-aughts Warped ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

Misery loves company, and that company is usually the most emo song imaginable — one that plunges into the depths with you to reach a greater catharsis, rather than just whine. That’s what the best ...

Uplifting, resilient, hopeful .... these are words that can be used to describe Cliffdiver's latest single "IKEA Strikes Back." But as we've seen, emo is not always an uplifting genre, working out ...

Breakups are never easy. But whether you got dumped, were cheated on, simply lost feelings, or walked away on good terms, music is always there for you. What better genre of music to comfort you ...

From screams to singalongs, Pierce the Veil's ACL Fest 2025 set captured emo's enduring power - equal parts nostalgia, grief ...

Time for a new NHL season and a new season preview that channels all your angst, rage and worry into a single track that could describe your team’s 2024-25 season chances, your feelings about that ...