Motion City Soundtrack featured Joshua Cain guitar Tony Thaxton drums Justin Pierre vocalsguitar Jesse Johnson moog and Matthew Taylor bass The indie rock quintet originally formed in 1999 when Pierre and Cain were still in high school The two were b…

A discovery of pop-punk superstars Fall Out Boy, the Las Vegas emo band Panic! At the Disco (named for a Smiths song), stormed the charts in 2005 while its members were barely old enough to vote. Offering a highly danceable take on the emo formula of…

Better known as the vocalistsongwriterkeyboardist for the West Coast punk-pop quintet Something Corporate Andrew McMahon explores the dark side with his emo pop side project Jacks Mannequin Utilizing the talents of numerous friends and collaborators …

Formerly in rival bands on the Chicago local scene guitarist Mike Carden and vocalist William Beckett came together in 2002 to mark the beginning of indie-emo rockers the Academy Is originally just named the Academy Naming influences from U2 to Weeze…

Say Anything is the pop-punk brainchild of singersongwriter Max Bemis The band first started up while its members were still in high school and has had a rotating cast of characters throughout its existence with the most recent lineup featuring found…

New Jersey hardcore band My Chemical Romance achieved a surprising degree of success with their Goth-tinged, woe-is-me take on punk. Labeled everything from emo and pop-punk to post-hardcore and screamo, My Chemical Romance are one of several bands f…

Brooklyn-based indie rock trio We Are Scientists formed in 2000 around the talents of guitaristlead vocalist Keith Murray bass player Chris Cain and drummer Michael Tapper After building a small but devoted following through their epic live shows and…

New Jersey dream rock quartet Armor for Sleeps emotionally charged lyrics energetic live shows and DIY work ethic have won them a loyal fan base Singersongwriterguitar player Ben Jorgensen began writing songs the summer before his freshman year at co…

Head Automatica was the somewhat unlikely pairing of vocalist Daryl Palumbo -- he of NYC hardcore stalwarts Glassjaw -- and producer Dan the Automator aka Dan Nakamura of Gorillaz Handsome Boy Modeling School Introduced by mutual friends the duo bega…

A mainstay of the Chicago punk and hardcore scenes of the 1990s and 2000s, Alkaline Trio play a somewhat darker and more textured--though typically fast and furious--brand of punk that gives sonic representation to the anger and desperation that fue…

The mercurial term "emo" has meant many different things since its first appearance in the mid-1980s hardcore punk underground. By the mid 2000s, the term was best exemplified by the band Fall Out Boy. Playing an accessible brand of melodic rock mark…