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Six Degrees of Refused’s…
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Nothing Feels Good: An Album-b…
Emo is a difficult genre to define - namely because so few bands openly c… more »
My Chemical Romance, Three Che…
It's only apt that My Chemical Romance close out this list, since they we… more »
Taking Back Sunday, Tell All Y…
Along with acts like Thursday and Brand New, Taking Back Sunday helped ma… more »
Thursday, Full Collapse…
Thursday may have helped usher in the "Summer of Screamo" when Full Colla… more »
Jets To Brazil, Four Cornered …
Five years after his swan song with Jawbreaker, Blake released the second… more »
Cursive, Cursive’s Domes…
We've all had failed relationships but Tim Kasher has a knack for transfo… more »
Jimmy Eat World, Clarity…
Like Dear You, Jimmy Eat World's Clarity was initially a major-label casu… more »
The Jealous Sound Kill Them Wi…
The Jealous Sound's Kill Them With Kindness defies the limits of genre. O… more »
Pedro The Lion It’s Hard…
David Bazan is one of emo's most underrated artists, and this release und… more »
The Promise Ring, Nothing Feel…
Where Cap'n Jazz was a sonic experiment conducted by high school students… more »
The Get Up Kids, Four Minute M…
Things were different for emo in the '90s. Guys doused their hair with po… more »
Hot Water Music, Forever And C…
Forever And Counting is less an emo album than it is a call to arms. Corr… more »
Christie Front Drive, Stereo…
Christie Front Drive came up touring with acts like Jimmy Eat World and M… more »
Lifetime, Hello Bastards…
Only a state full of underdogs like New Jersey could have birthed a band … more »
Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetap…
Before the Promise Ring, Davey von Bohlen and his high school friends wer… more »