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 ...

LOS ANGELES — After nearly 20 years of being underground, emo music rose to dominate rock radio, MTV and MySpace during the early to mid-2000s. It captured the pent-up emotions of the post-9/11 era, ...

My Chemical Romance – mainstay alternative band of the Noughties – made a triumphant return in 2022 with new music and a reunion world tour. As an expert in media and cultural studies, I have explored ...

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

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 ...

The music industry was a very different time in the early 2000s. Rock, as always, had evolved in new directions, spawning new genres and new iterations of previously founded genres through the ...

The term "emo" is now 40 years old, according to the man who claims he invented it: Brian Baker. Baker, 60, is one of those ...

The Get Up Kids will be playing their first show in three months with their appearance Sunday at the Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh, but guitarist Jim Suptic wasn’t worried about any rust.

On Monday, emo music forefathers American Football announced a reunion tour, and today the late Mineral hinted at something, though we don’t know what just yet. We’ve hit peak emo revival. And through ...

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 ...