In underground emo circles, awakebutstillinbed have reached Frank Ocean status in terms of fans clamoring for them to drop the album, and it’s finally going to happen on October 20 via the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emo isn’t a phase. The music genre characterized by black eyeliner, sideswept bangs and emotional lyrics lives on through emo ...

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 ...

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.

You might be wondering why “Mr. Brightside” made this list, but the anthemic track from The Killers is one of their most melancholy. Since the song is really about a guy who’s pained by the jealousy ...

From basement shows to a Fantasy Suite at the MTV Video Music Awards, Chris Payne’s Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 tracks the evolution of emo’s ...

With a nice, long break in the NHL schedule and your favorite team pretty firmly on track to make you either fully emo (nervous, excited, scream until you cry) or fully punk (full of vinegar, in ...

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 ...