It’s easy to look back at 2000s emo music with a sense of longing. After all, it boasted artists and sounds that have long since dissipated… That’s not really the case, though, is it? While we can ...

These New York rockers kicked off their careers in 1999 and became one of the most recognizable emo post-punk outfits in music history. Their debut album Tell All Your Friends was an essential record ...

Band t-shirts, cryptic AIM profile lyrics, being front row at the punk show (and first into the mosh pit), and so, so much angst — those are the things that describe the core of my being in the early ...

While the last solid wave of emo music ended in the 2000s, that era of angsty rock music will never truly die. In fact, quite a few albums from that era are starting to get discovered by the new ...

Anyone who’s had any kind of scene phase is likely to look back on the 2000s fondly. With numerous hit alternative albums, including Paramore‘s Riot! and Yellowcard‘s Ocean Avenue, we were really ...

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It wasn’t a given that Avril Lavigne would become a pop punk icon. As Jamieson Cox pointed out in his great retrospective Pitchfork review of Avril’s 2002 debut album Let Go, when she was signed to ...

Ten years after their last new music release, Motion City Soundtrack is still as anxious as ever, but for different reasons.