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An emo orchestra is going on tour: “For emo lovers and orchestra aficionados alike”

The Emo Orchestra is teaming up with Hawthorne Heights for an inaugural U.S. tour “that brings together the emo hits of your youth with a touch of adult elegance”.

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The Used: “We’ve been an emo band for 23 years. We never stopped, we never broke up, we never went anywhere!”

Among emo’s most enduring heroes, Utah quartet The Used continue to set a scintillating, soul-baring standard on superb ninth album Toxic Positivity. As Bert McCracken explains, this story of struggle might be the most sincere he’s ever written…

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“Are you a goff?”: What it’s like to grow up emo in UK schools

Culture clashes, getting detention for dyeing your hair and putting plasters over your piercings for PE – growing up emo in the UK is an experience like no other…

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L.S. Dunes: “We didn’t realise how much we needed this band until we started writing for it”

After two decades of interlinking friendship, L.S. Dunes saw five of emo and post-hardcore’s most respected figureheads finally get together. Rather than trading on old glories, however, debut LP Past Lives is about parrying their shared experience – from firebrand beginnings to fatherhood – into some of the coolest ‘dad rock’ the world has ever seen…

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In pictures: The faces of When We Were Young fest 2022

Headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore, Las Vegas’ inaugural When We Were Young was a massively fun dose of nostalgia. Here’s how festival-goers proved that it’s really not a phase…

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blackbear: “A rock star used to be sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, and now it’s mental health, appreciation and patience”

Growing up with a father addicted to heroin, Mat Musto (aka blackbear) found comfort and escape in music. Originally losing himself in the alternative scene, he soon found a career in R&B, but is now revisiting his punk roots and confronting his past on new album In Loving Memory.

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Hayley Williams teases key influence behind Paramore’s new album

Hayley Williams has revealed details of how Bloc Party shaped Paramore’s upcoming record.

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Charlotte Sands drops new single Lost “for the losers, the loners, and everyone in-between”

Listen to Charlotte Sands’ ridiculously catchy new single Lost, which is about “the challenges of growing up and the feeling of being an outsider”.

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Chris Carrabba: My life in 10 songs

Dashboard Confessional visionary Chris Carrabba reflects on the 10 songs that symbolise the ever-changing landscape of his creativity…

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Inside Afflecks Palace: The subcultural heart of Manchester

Since the early '80s, Afflecks Palace has been an institution of Manchester's alternative scene – finding itself as the go-to spot for Madchester, nu-metal, emo and beyond. We travel to the iconic marketplace to find out how it's stood the test of time and why it's still so vital to the city today...

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25 Years Of Vagrant Records: The label that accidentally took emo to the mainstream

From a family-funded Get Up Kids album to becoming a lynchpin of 2000s emo, we look back on Vagrant Records’ reluctant rise…

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18 albums that are perfect for autumn listening

With the nights drawing in and a fresh chill in the air, we've picked a handful of the best albums to listen to in the autumn months…

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12 albums where a band did something totally unexpected

From Metallica to Paramore, these 12 albums are examples of artists taking a hard left-turn from their more ‘traditional’ sounds…

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Remembering 2006: When emo conquered the world and changed music forever

With Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Paramore commanding stadium-sized crowds across the world, we look back on the year that changed their careers and lives forever…

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The 25 greatest emo albums ever

From cult pioneers to the genre’s superstars, emo’s discography is rich and brilliant. But what are its best albums? You voted, and here they are.

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Fall Out Boy: Every album ranked from worst to best by Pete Wentz

From 2003’s Take This To Your Grave to 2018’s M A N I A, this is the definitive ranking of Fall Out Boy’s albums according to bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz.

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The story of emo in 14 songs

From the basements of Washington, D.C. to festival headline slots around the world, this is the story of emo’s rise to prominence through the music that shaped a generation.

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