The crowd at Emo Nite's Grave Rave was made up of a wide variety of ages. The line, long and winding but orderly, stretched around the corner from the venue, with concertgoers dressed in everything ...

Pop punk and emo bands like Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel took over in 2005. Now, they're back and ...

Jimmy Eat Brisket: It’s a party. So basically, Jimmy Eat Brisket and a bunch of other bands are coming into town for Far Out ...

Staring off wistfully into the middle distance, thinking, “Man, the mid-2010s were a time .” Whether or not you believe it ...

Emo music is a subgenre of punk rock that is characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics, usually dealing with angst and social alienation. The music is sometimes raw, but almost always very ...

Louis Posen founded Hopeless Records 30 years ago and has seen emo music evolve. Dustin Franz for NPR Over the last several decades, emo music has experienced moments of mainstream popularity.

At 15, I was a generally optimistic kid living in a perfectly benign suburb of New Jersey. I had friends and family and interests and ideas about a future that still felt safely far away; a compromise ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The sun is setting on the Badlands as Amy Fleisher Madden squints through her camera’s viewfinder, searching amidst the red rock and prairie grass for a figure wearing head-to-toe black. The ...

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 ...

Over the last several decades, emo music has experienced moments of mainstream popularity. Dashboard Confessional won a VMA in 2002, and more recently, Paramore won two Grammys in 2024. But the vast ...