These New York rockers kicked off their careers in 1999 and became one of the most recognizable emo post-punk outfits in music history. Their debut album Tell All Your Friends was an essential record ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging from the gritty underground of New Jersey’s late ‘90s music scene, No Tomorrow. is more than just a band name—it’s a ...

It wasn’t a given that Avril Lavigne would become a pop punk icon. As Jamieson Cox pointed out in his great retrospective Pitchfork review of Avril’s 2002 debut album Let Go, when she was signed to ...

Picture this: it’s 2005. You wake up, brush your hair into a side parting, covering one of your eyes so much so you can’t see ...

If you paint those fingernails black, if you your jean jacket is covered in pins from the used or Stroke 9, if you are a product of the early 2000s pop punk/emo music movement, you are going to love ...

On Tuesday afternoon, an emo festival designed to bait millennials around the world materialized of thin air. Headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore, When We Were Young is set to take place in ...

Fans of early 2000s punk and emo have found a true friend in The Blue Note. This month, the Columbia venue will host its sixth edition of Emo Royale, a themed show in which local and regional bands ...

As the singer of one of the most beloved pop-punk/emo bands of the last 20 years – Paramore – Hayley Williams has plenty to say about the golden age of those styles. For instance, she recently ...

The crowd at Emo Nite's Grave Rave was made up of a wide variety of ages. The line, long and winding but orderly, stretched around the corner from the venue, with concertgoers dressed in everything ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...