As we said in our list of the 50 best albums of 2023, it wasn’t easy to narrow this year’s many, many great albums down to 50, so we thought it’d be a good idea to shine a light on some other releases ...

Emo was at a crossroads in 2015. The “emo revival” movement had become all the rage in late 2013, after the music press caught on, and with the it feeling like the ceiling for commercial success and ...

What the hell happened to fifth-wave emo? But in 2022, emo largely turned to the fun and familiar. Consensus favorites like Arm’s Length, Pool Kids and Anxious followed through on the promise of their ...

I’m accustomed to mainstream year-end lists providing a distorted reflection of my own experience. But, in a fitting coda to a frankly hallucinatory 2024, it feels like my own year-end list was lying ...

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 ...

We asked manager and host of ‘Waldman's Words’ on idobi Radio, Scott Waldman, to take on the challenge of ranking the The Best Emo Albums From 1999-2008. Who better to help with this task than Emo ...

My Chemical Romance’s second studio album changed the game. It was the album that pulled in a huge new pool of fans in 2004. And it makes sense why. This emo pop-punk record is loaded with hits and ...

The best Midwest emo albums of the 1990s were contained within the actual Midwest, for the most part. Fast forward to more recent years and we’ve seen bands from just about every corner of the U.S.