Pinning down the best emo songs of all time is less about technical perfection and more about capturing a specific, lightning-in-a-bottle feeling. It’s the sound of suburban malaise, the sharp sting ...

No matter the wave or subgenre, most emo bands seem to have a knack for covering songs from the ’80s and ’90s. Maybe it’s the unexpectedness of hearing a screaming version of a-ha’s “Take on Me” or an ...

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 ...