Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For the past 50 years in music, it’s often been cool to be sad. The countercultural phenomena that ...

If you’re a fan of alternative music, you are well aware that emo is way more than just a phase. It’s a sound, it’s a subculture and it’s a lifestyle to be a forever emo kid. Emo didn’t die back in ...

If early 2000s emo music was a staple of many students’ teenage years, there’s a place they can go to in Columbus to rage their hearts out. Sad Boyz, a 21-plus throwback DJ set that started in March ...

“Can’t Slow Down,” the 1998 debut by the New Jersey band Saves the Day and the all-time favorite album of Hampden resident Jason Medina, opens with lyrics quintessential to its genre. “And it’s not ...

Emo rap is massive, and there’s no other way to put it. Candid lyrics centered on emotional and confessional subject matter make up the sub-genre, which, at times, merges hip-hop and rock music. Sad ...

You probably haven't thought much about emo over the last decade. But the crowds outside of the Echoplex on Tuesday nights certainly have. Emo Night—interchangeably known as Taking Back Tuesday and ...

At the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, Kelly Clarkson, 23 at the time, was beginning to lose her voice. She was singing at the top of her range, with the adrenaline pumping through her ...