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- My Chemical Romance. 12,172 votes. Born from the ashes of several New Jersey bands, My Chemical Romance quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the emo scene.
- Panic! at the Disco. 10,651 votes. Breaking onto the scene in 2005, Panic! at the Disco proved emo was more than just a melancholy affair. With their genre-defying fusion of electronic, pop-punk, and baroque elements, this Las Vegas-based band delivered catchy hooks and melodramatic choruses that had listeners hooked.
- Fall Out Boy. 10,404 votes. Hailing from Chicago, Fall Out Boy emerged in the early 2000s and quickly rose to become one of the most prominent bands in the emo scene.
- Jimmy Eat World. 4,530 votes. As trailblazers of the emo genre, Jimmy Eat World's introspective lyrics and infectious melodies have made them one of the most enduring and influential bands in the scene.
Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.
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For fans of: The Starting Line, New Found Glory, The Wonder Years From the 50 Best Punk Albums of 2021: Their Pure Noise debut Pulling Focusoffers up the kind of glossy yet hardcore-informed pop punk that dominated Drive-Thru Records in the early 2000s and bands like The Wonder Years and The Story So Far in the early 2010s, and Action/Adventure are...
For fans of: Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Saves The Day From our interview with Anxious: It’s an emo album that’s in touch with the genre’s gritty hardcore roots but also full of sparkly clean production, gorgeous harmonies, layered arrangements, and forays outside of punk entirely. The harmony-fueled acoustic ballad “Wayne” and the dream p...
For fans of: The Early November, Armor For Sleep, Finch From our 50 Best Punk Albums of 2021: Everything Niceenvisions a world where emo-pop and underground emo never diverged, one where atmosphere and experimentation and sugary pop punk could go hand in hand. It’s an EP that would’ve sounded just as at home on Drive-Thru in 2003 as it would have o...
For fans of: Hopesfall, Poison The Well, Hum From our 40 Great Punk EPs, Splits & Singles from 2021: Hum-inspired heavy shoegaze and Ferret Records style post-hardcore have both been having major comebacks lately, but I’m not sure I can think of many bands who do both of those things at once like Philly band ASkySoBlack do on their debut EP What Is...
For fans of: Further Seems Forever, The Get Up Kids, The Progress From our track review of “Munck”: …one of the best new emo songs I’ve heard in recent memory. Pulling from screamy post-hardcore, knotty Midwest emo, hooky pop punk, a post-rocky buildup and more, it gets a lot done in five minutes, and Carly Cosgrove keep you at the edge of your sea...
For fans of: Thrice, Brand New, Manchester Orchestra From our album review of A Town Named Nowhere: Most of the bands A Town Named Nowhere reminds me of released significant records in the mid 2000s, and this can often feel like a lost album from that era, but it also reminds you that the art rock-leaning emo and progressive post-hardcoreof that er...
For fans of: Thrice, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Receiving End of Sirens From our review of Twisted World Perspective: The album’s metalcore/mathcore side brings to mind bands like Botch, Norma Jean, and Every Time I Die, and it also embraces the howled clean vocals and proggy post-hardcore of a band like The Receiving End of Sirens. They also p...
For fans of: Thursday, Fear Before the March of Flames, At the Drive In From our 50 Best Punk Albums of 2021: In Spite Of is a genre-defying album that pulls from the grindy chaos of The Locust and Daughters, the shapeshifting progressive hardcore of Fear Before the March of Flames, the theatrical post-hardcore of At the Drive In, and the sugary em...
For fans of: Paramore, Circa Survive, Turnover From our 45 Best Punk Albums of 2020: On their debut album, Portland’s Glacier Veins have bundled ultra catchy mid 2000s pop punk-style hooks with atmospheric, post-rocky guitars and a more modern indie-emo vibe, and the result is one of the most irresistible punk debuts of the year. It’s as nostalgia-...
For fans of: Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind, The Jealous Sound From our 50 Best Punk Albums of 2021: Jail Socks’ debut LP rolls the past 25 years of emo and pop punk into one concise 11-song album, and it shoots it all back out like a bottle rocket. You could picture this album sounding just as at home on Drive-Thru in 2001 as it would have on Ru...
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- Sunny Day Real Estate. Frontman. Jeremy Enigk. Origin. Seattle, Washington. Years. 1992 to 1995, 1997 to 2001, 2009 to 2013. Genre. Emo, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Grunge.
- American Football. Frontman. Mike Kinsella. Origin. Urbana, Illinois. Years. 1997 to 2000, 2014 to Present. Genre. Midwest Emo, Post-Rock, Math Rock. Despite only initially being a band for three years and having two studio albums under their belt, American Football was one of the leading forces in the creation of the Midwest emo sound and has become a staple in the genre.
- Jimmy Eat World. Frontman. Jim Adkins. Origin. Mesa, Arizona. Years. 1993 to Present. Genre. Emo, Emo Pop, Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Power Pop. One of the leading alternative bands of the ‘90s and early 2000s, Jimmy Eat World was formed by childhood friends Zach Lind (drums) and Jim Adkins (vocals) in hopes of becoming a punk rock band.
- Brand New. Frontman. Jesse Lacey. Origin. Long Island, New York. Years. 2000 to 2018. Genre. Emo, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore. Long Island-based Brand New is regarded by critics and fans of the genre as one of the most influential emo bands of the 2000s for their artistic take on the genre.
- White Lung – Deep Fantasy (Domino, 2014) The thing about The Shape of Punk to Come is that it wasn’t the shape of punk to come. Punk got a lot more popular in its wake, but none of it really sounded like that album.
- Foxing – Nearer My God (Triple Crown, 2018) When the “emo revival” started in the late 2000s, it was a way for a new wave of bands to take emo back to the underground and pull influence from bands like American Football, Cap’n Jazz, and Braid, rather than the pop rock bands who brought the genre to arenas in the mid 2000s.
- Japandroids – Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl, 2012) There might not be a more accurately titled album on this list than Celebration Rock. It’s exactly what this album does; it celebrates the pure thrill that you can only get from rock and roll.
- Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Carpark, 2012) In some ways, Attack On Memory still feels like the catalyst for the decade’s critical acceptance of a whole slew of punk, emo, and post-hardcore albums, genres that were typically trashed or completely ignored by critics in the previous decade.
Mar 10, 2020 · |. March 10, 2020. Has it really been 35 years since a group of well-intentioned Washington, D.C. punk scenesters coined the term “ emo ”? Because hardcore was cemented in its own realm, new...
Feb 22, 2021 · Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003) Taking on the mantle of emo’s most stripped-back band, Death Cab For Cutie poured their hearts out on Transatlanticism. Exposed and unwaveringly ...
