Midwest emo is widely considered to be the second wave of emo. The first wave of emo music had a punk lean and featured bands ...

Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs were more complex and adaptable than previously known. Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk ...

The post The Top 15 Emo Albums of the Last 15 Years appeared first on Consequence. Emo was in a weird place 15 years ago. In 2007, rock’s most misunderstood subgenre was on the brink of a total ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many ways, 2012 was a stop-gap year for emo. While there were several compelling releases from major artists and newcomers, perhaps fears of the looming Mayan Apocalypse or the potential election ...

In 2017, Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO TOUR Llif3” peaked at Number Seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The song explored themes of substance abuse and suicide, finding a loyal audience in young listeners. In the ...

As music lovers/nerds, we also love lists–making them and reading them. They’re not perfect, but they’re great tools for organization, discovery, and keeping the momentum going for art that we love in ...