Other noteable factoids from the Maine Campus Q&A (click here to read our own, 100 percent emo-free interview with the frontman): Way is a briefs man, he’s pumped to open up for Bon Jovi and his ...

The ‘emo revival’ saw many bands look back to the genre’s second wave for inspiration, and launched careers for the likes of The Hotelier, La Dispute, Foxing, Modern Baseball and more, each ...

The emo test’s joke that to ace it is to be “broken” has a dark, telling implication. Look to the career of the rapper Juice Wrld, who died at age 21 of a drug overdose in December 2019.

The music on genre : sadboy is emo rap in a nominal sense, mixing strobing synths and soft-strum guitars with twitchy hi-hats. In its quieter moments, it has a staid quality that suggests a numbed ...

Broken Record self-identifies as “stadium emo,” but if that makes you think of the emo bands who are actually playing stadiums in 2023, this is not the album for you. Nothing Moves Me could be ...

It’s been more than 30 years since punk rock’s confessional, diaristic, heart-on-sleeve offshoot “emo” came screaming from Washington, D.C., and around a decade since its commercial peak ...

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.

The beauty of emo music is that it provides a canvas for our own emotional projections. The lyrical narratives, even when relatively specific, often have just enough ambiguity that we can relate ...

The emo floodgates opened in 2002. In honor of their 20th anniversaries, this edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at the best emo and post-hardcore albums from that year.