* May album reviews: Knocked Loose, The Hope Conspiracy, Hot Water Music, Into It. Over It., Usurp Synapse, Demersal, Shellac, and Lip Critic. We’ve also got new exclusive vinyl in the BV shop, ...

Rock has many sub-genres. Each of them is as integral to the history of the genre as the next. In the late ’00s, emo rock was all the rage–literally. Bands like Paramore and Fall Out Boy took their ...

These songs had us in stitches while keeping the riffs intact! Join us as we count down our picks for the greatest parody ...

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 ...

Garnering 3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, almost 1 billion streams and multiple hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 is none other than the American emo-rock group Boys Like Girls. The band, which ...

If you were a teen in the early 2000s, you probably didn’t escape the emo movement unaffected. Alternative rock had taken a turn toward post-grunge and pop-punk and into notably emo sounds, and there ...

Matt Zutell, Dylan Swinson, Ryan Hanifin and Marc Voyer make fun covers of the music of their youth as Jerkweed | Credit: Provided During the summer of 2020, musicians Matt Zutell and Dylan Swinson ...

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 ...