In the mid-2000s, young people on both sides of the Atlantic were swept up in a subculture of melancholy. Its driving force was bands with names like Bring Me the Horizon, My Chemical Romance, and ...

In May, I vowed that this summer would be my Hot Internship Summer: no concerts, no staying out past midnight, just the Washington, D.C. grind set. It was a lot of fun, but throughout the summer I had ...

At the event in Brooklyn, hundreds of attendees dressed up, danced and reflected on the resurgence of the pop culture phenomenon. About 800 partygoers danced to music from bands such as My Chemical ...

Francesca Sobande received Impact Acceleration funding from UKRI in 2024, towards a project that involves collaborating with the Museum of Youth Culture. Much more than just spotlighting bands and ...

The emo genre of music is essentially a movement. A child of hardcore and post-hardcore punk, it's almost a culture in and of itself — honest, genuine and personal lyrics, within the confines of ...

MGK (Machine Gun Kelly) and Trippie Redd at the March 21 listening party for their collaborative EP, genre : sadboy, at Harriet's Rooftop in West Hollywood. At the start of this century, as MySpace ...

It was never a phase, and a 30- or 40-something rocking Vans and flannel on a Friday night will let everyone and their mother know just that. These are the elder emo kids — the adults who spent their ...

Black hair, a floppy fringe covering a smoky eye, and music from bands like Green Day is probably how most remember the emo sub-culture in the early 2000s. An exhibition called I'm Not Okay: An Emo ...

Exposés on emo have been popping up all over local-news programs recently–and the latest is a doozy. The ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City ran an "investigation" into teen emo culture on Monday, and ...

The county of Herefordshire in England is known for its rolling green hills and quaint pastoral charm. It hardly seems like the place for punk and emo culture to make a splash. Yet, beneath this ...