Over the last several decades, emo music has experienced moments of mainstream popularity. Dashboard Confessional won a VMA in 2002, and more recently, Paramore won two Grammys in 2024.

The Emo Nite event, now a full-fledged national business in its 10th year, started out as a way for creators Petracca and Freed to listen to the kind of music they enjoyed — despite it not being ...

The music is sometimes raw, but almost always very melodic. Emo's heyday emerged after the year 2000, when it was popularized by bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At The Disco.

Emo music has largely flown under the radar, but with a new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame focusing on one of its founding labels, it's time for another look. PARAMORE: (Singing) I can ...

The bands that helped shape emo music are celebrated in “Negatives,” featuring images by Amy Fleisher-Madden as well as other photographers documenting the scene.

The orchestra, which performs emo music with a live band, will stop at the Garden Amp in Garden Grove on Friday, May 17 and at The Orpheum Theatre on Saturday, May 18.