Pop-Punk and Emo

Paramore Kitten - Hammerstein Ballroom - 5/16/13

Paramore Kitten Hammerstein Ballroom 5/16/13 Better Than: Anything J.J. Abrams has done in 2013 Before seeing Paramore tonight, I went to the movies with my best friend. We're both huge sci-fi/fantasy dweebs, so we, of course, had seen the new Star Trek movie on its opening day. The movie was ... More >>

Emo is Dead, Long Live Emo: 30 Bands Making it Safe to Hurt Again

It's a confusing time to be an emo fan. My Chemical Romance recently called it quits, while Fall Out Boy, surprisingly, have the #1 album in the country. That album, however, is a far cry from the sound old heads remember from the Take This to Your Grave era. Bro, are you even emo anymore? See also ... More >>

All Time Low

THE JAMAICAN SENSATION

Sean Paul moves from the dance hall to Webster Hall

SOTC Premiere: It Is Happening Again: A Texas Is The Reason Microfilm (Plus A Q&A With Norman Brannon)

Texas is the Reason were and, recently, are a band. They formed in 1994 and released one self-titled EP and one full-length, Do You Know Who You Are?, on which they exemplified a kind of emo that was both anxious and circling—small, contained universes of songs that somehow managed to seem ope ... More >>

Live: Pop-Punk Rises (And Crowdsurfs) Again At The Warped Tour

Warped Tour: Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Every time I Die, Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, and others. Nassau Coliseum Saturday, July 21 Better than: Last year. A few images: • The weather was beautiful; this year there was wind. Sunlight gently cascaded onto the grounds and sometimes r ... More >>

'Vans Warped Tour'

Q&A: The Promise Ring's Dan Didier On Getting The Band Back Together And Wood/Water

Mid-'90s emo institution The Promise Ring announced last year that they'd reunite to play a few scattered shows throughout 2012. The band, in its early days, combined the noisy and particulate ideas of guitarist/singer Davey von Bohlen's previous band Cap'n Jazz with more traditional punk constructi ... More >>

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

'Where's the Band?'

The Bamboozle: Moving Back To Asbury Park (!), Headlined By Bon Jovi (?)

The 2012 edition of The Bamboozle—the weekend-long festival of complete and utter overstimulation in the name of music and carnival rides—will take place May 18 through 20, and instead of being held in the parking lot of the Meadowlands' football stadium, as it has been for the past cou ... More >>

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Saves the Day

Panic! at the Disco

Live: Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, And The Academy Is... Sweat It Out At Terminal 5

Cobra Starship w/ Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., Versa Emerge and A Rocket To The Moon Terminal 5 Friday, September 9 Better than: Facing the Fashion Week crowds. Fueled By Ramen—the label that brought its particular brand of emo to the MTV mainstream in the mid-aughts thanks to the l ... More >>

Live: Paramore Ends Their Year And Celebrates Their Label At Terminal 5

Paramore w/ fun., The Stereo, The Swellers, and This Providence Terminal 5 Wednesday, September 8 Better than: Getting soaked on the long walk back to the subway. In one of the many shoutouts Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams directed toward her record label Fueled By Ramen—the emo-pop ma ... More >>

Live: blink-182 Like It Hot And Wet At Jones Beach

Honda Civic Tour: Blink 182/My Chemical Romance w/Alkaline Trio Nikon At Jones Beach Theater Sunday, August 7 Better than: A five percent chance of rain. On the way to Jones Beach last night, leery of the weather that had cut short the final day of Escape To New York some 70 miles east, I checke ... More >>

Live: Taking Back Sunday Bring It Back Together At The Best Buy Theater

Taking Back Sunday w/Thursday Best Buy Theater Sunday, July 17 Better than: Breaking up. The Best Buy Theater seems hermetically sealed from Times Square—to enter it is to completely remove yourself from the heat, which, in July, introduces stasis to the blood. You are rewarded inside with ... More >>

Coheed & Cambria

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

Live: Patrick Stump Gets Soulful At Joe's Pub

Patrick Stump, Om'Mas Keith Joe's Pub Sunday, April 10 Better than: Watching

City & Colour

Good Charlotte

Joan of Arc

ALTERNATIVE ART

Rock stars can do more than just rock

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Alkaline Trio

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 17: Simple Plan, "Perfect"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. A fine whine imported from Canada.

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 20: Gym Class Heroes, "Taxi Driver"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Since emo already ruined rock music for a generation, why not just take rap too?

Brand New+Glassjaw+Thrice

Live: Paramore Reduce Your CMJ Showcase To Ashes at Hammerstein

Paramore Hammerstein Ballroom Wednesday, October 21 Paramore's Hayley Williams is 20-years-old, about five feet tall, and when she walks out in front of three or four thousand people she's serenely calm. On Tuesday, somebody gave her a gold plaque, for a record her band released four years ago, w ... More >>

Paramore Finally Bust Up the Lonely Tears Boys Club

Emo's Femme Fatale, Hayley Williams

With Folie a Deuz, Fall Out Boy Keep Their Sellout Streak Going

(And good for them)

RITES OF SPRING

Emo takes flight in the Meadowlands

Emo "Elder" Statesmen Jimmy Eat World and Thrice

Emo "elder" statesmen are dependably accessible, or not

In Defense of Ultragrrrl

Sarah Lewitinn has become New York’s premier tastemaker—and that's what makes the haterati squirm

Bleat on the Brats

Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material

Showbiz Kids

Emo-metal extravaganza opts for spectacle over substance

Emo guys insult selves, discover porpoise in life

Ohio-Bred Pop-Punk Christians More Gallant Than Goofus

Music

Man Your Battle Stations

Conceptually inclined emo kids' seriously absurd prog-metal fantasies hit the big time

Battle of the Bad

Rhyming shit with itself vs. whining about your ex-girlfriend

What's Their Age Again?

Anticipatory asthenia bogart conundrum criminally spazzy zing: Look 'em up, suckers!

Sensitively Stringed Soundtrack for a Self-Circumcision

What's My Age Again?

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

As Not Seen on TV!

Desperate Measures