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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter the wave or subgenre, most emo bands seem to have a knack for covering songs from the '80s and '90s. Maybe it's the unexpectedness of hearing a screaming version of a-ha's "Take on Me" or an ...