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 ...

My Chemical Romance’s second studio album changed the game. It was the album that pulled in a huge new pool of fans in 2004. And it makes sense why. This emo pop-punk record is loaded with hits and ...

For music lovers, there’s an existential fear when the songs they have clung to through various life markers become “old.” “Could what I love ever be deemed ‘classic,’” we wonder to ourselves. You ...

While the last solid wave of emo music ended in the 2000s, that era of angsty rock music will never truly die. In fact, quite a few albums from that era are starting to get discovered by the new ...

Jennifer's Body is perhaps the greatest horror-comedy of the 2000s. Directed by horror maestro Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody, the cult classic is the perfect teenage metaphor for losing ...

If you've ever identified as an emo kid, chances are, you know at least one of the many bands on the Hopeless Records roster – Guttermouth, Avenged Sevenfold, All Time Low, Sum 41, to name a few. Now, ...

As we said in our list of the 50 best albums of 2023, it wasn’t easy to narrow this year’s many, many great albums down to 50, so we thought it’d be a good idea to shine a light on some other releases ...

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 ...

Take some time while your Thanksgiving dinner cooks to plan out your weekend. Whether you want to walk off the post-dinner bloating (and get some holiday shopping done, too) by walking around artisan ...

To hear the fully produced piece, including samples of the music referred to in the text below, hit the play button above. WAMC: A lot of the indie rock movement of the early aughts is sort of ...