Pinning down the best emo songs of all time is less about technical perfection and more about capturing a specific, lightning-in-a-bottle feeling. It’s the sound of suburban malaise, the sharp sting ...

But now, as Swift’s wildly anticipated new album Midnights — complete with its ominous “13 sleepless nights” emo-adjacent aesthetic — is set to drop Oct. 21, we pose a new question: Exactly how emo is ...

Slowcore is bigger than ever (thanks TikTok), and all the increased attention on the ’90s-centric genre has got me thinking about something that I think could use a little more love: slowcore’s ...

Emo music means many different things to fans, from the genre’s forebearers in ‘80s D.C. to ‘90s godfathers like Jawbreaker and Cap’n Jazz, to the boom in popularity around the early-aughts Warped ...

Alternative rock of the 1990s walked so that emo of the 2000s could run. What alt-rock brought to mainstream rock music was deeply personal lyricism with no shame in recognizing sad and painful times.

Fall is finally here, so for the season this article has a curated playlist full of emo songs with cozy, crispy autumn vibes!

Midwest emo has a special way of making us nostalgic for things we can’t actually recall. Maybe these things never even happened, but we yearn for them all the same. The whole idea of Midwest emo, if ...

My Chemical Romance is touring again, Paramore and Jimmy Eat World are headlining a major festival this fall, and there’s a skinny, tattooed white dude with a guitar dominating the charts. In case you ...

If early 2000s emo music was a staple of many students’ teenage years, there’s a place they can go to in Columbus to rage their hearts out. Sad Boyz, a 21-plus throwback DJ set that started in March ...