The March roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list ...

Nostalgia has a way of showing up when you least expect it. Sometimes it’s a song you haven’t heard in years. Sometimes it’s a lyric you didn’t fully understand the ...

Hey BrooklynVegan readers, it’s me Andrew Sacher. You may know me from the tens of thousands of articles I’ve written for BV over the past 15 years, and now I’m coming out with my first book, Emo ...

When I was in high school, it was a thrill to live the emo lifestyle — it was middle America's answer to the Sex Pistols. Like me, emo bands were misunderstood. They were decidedly outcast, and that ...

In the early 2000s, a new wave took the music scene by storm, and bands like Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World and My ...

Emo already had enough trouble competing for your attention in recent years; the biggest names of the revival had eased into legacy mode, releasing remasters and reimaginings of their most beloved ...

Her messages is clear: If we're going to revisit emo, we must address the bad with the good and make adjustments ...

Sometime in the eighties, the story goes—and every musical genre is ultimately a story—a few bands in America’s hypermasculine hardcore-punk scene started making music with poetic, emotionally ...

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 ...

Discover what makes the Emo tiny robot so appealing, how it works, where it fits in the world of AI companions, and which ...