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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emo is back, according to a CBS Mornings segment this week that features emo-indebted pop star Demi Lovato, pop-rocker Mod Sun and emo hip-hop artist Landon Barker, son of blink-182's Travis Barker.

Emo is hard to define for many reasons, including its vague characteristics and the fact that many of the most famous bands commonly thought of as being emo try to distance themselves from the tag. As ...

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 ...

The emo kids ruled the internet during the early 2010s. Ripped skinny jeans, heavy metal band tees, choker necklaces, knee high socks (black, of course) and leather jackets were everywhere. Jet black, ...