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 ...

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 ...

It’s a big week for swemos — that’s “Swiftie emos” for those of you out of the loop —as Taylor Swift praised a pair of 2000s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who’s had any kind of scene phase is likely to look back on the 2000s fondly. With numerous hit alternative albums, including Paramore‘s Riot! and Yellowcard‘s Ocean Avenue, we were really ...

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 ...

Following the success of the 2025 Playback Punk Rock and Emo Music Festival,  Playback is set to deliver another ...