Emo has been around long enough to have shed its skin a few times—the melodic, cathartic strain of posthardcore first blossomed in 1985, and it’s continued to evolve since its mainstream breakthrough ...

Let’s just blame it all on Washington, D.C. — it never gets old. The first known usage of emo dates back to the mid-1980s, when “emo-core” served as shorthand for “emotional hardcore,” a label applied ...

This article was originally published in 2021. 1996 was a historic year for emo. Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbreaker had already helped popularize the melodic “second wave” of the genre that took off ...

I long for the days when emo music was still on top of the world. Don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of famous emo bands that still make fantastic music today and apparently emo rap is now a ...

In “Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music,” author Michael Tedder tells the definitive story of the brief, improbable moment in the 2000s when new technology and a thriving underground scene collided ...

Ask anyone old enough to drink what they think emo is, and you'll get about as many different responses as people willing to answer. They'll just about all be right, too (if Last.fm is any kind of ...