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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s summertime at Warped Tour and the crowd is roaring. Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre is pointing at a sea of people and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of early 2000s punk and emo have found a true friend in The Blue Note. This month, the Columbia venue will host its sixth ...

The world might look a little different than it did in the early 2000s — OK, a lot different — but the music that defined a generation has stood the test of time. While the Bamboozle music festival no ...

For anyone even borderline sentient in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it’s impossible not to remember the potency of the emo era. The golden age of punk rock, there were countless bands who held the ...

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 ...

The longtime Austin club will receive upgrades and a new identity after AEG Presents takes over operations.

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 ...

Time for a new NHL season and a new season preview that channels all your angst, rage and worry into a single track that could describe your team’s 2024-25 season chances, your feelings about that ...

With a nice, long break in the NHL schedule and your favorite team pretty firmly on track to make you either fully emo (nervous, excited, scream until you cry) or fully punk (full of vinegar, in ...

It's the end of an era for a storied venue in the Live Music Capital of the World.

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 ...