Tagged emo

Fremont, California isn’t typically the place that comes to mind when thinking about the Bay Area music scene. The scene was in San Jose, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Hayward even. Not Fremont. Wi...

I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...

Photo by Lily Ramus When I was 13 I ‘discovered’ rock music. The pop music in my iTunes library was replaced by darker and heavier punk rock, and my tights and dresses were swapped with band tees and bl...

One of the stand-out qualities of Hear in Color is that they aren’t just an up-and-coming band—they’re a tight-knit family of musicians looking to share meaningful art with the world. They seamlessly fini...

Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK, released the wildly successful pop-punk album, Tickets to My Downfall, in September of 2020. In January 2021, he directed and released a 50-minute masterpiece of a short film, Downfal...

(SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...

On March 1st, Now, Now released their third single, “AZ” in support of their newly announced sophomore LP, Saved (2018).  Coming off the coattails of two 2017 singles, “SGL” and “Yours,” and a sma...

As her steady guitar strums started to feel intensely meditative, building somber isolation in the darkness of The Fillmore, her voice closed the verse with a timid release:  “I was just wondering if there's...

It’s 9:07am on November 19th, and my third alarm is going off. My phone, cold and wet from the humid rainy weather vibrates against my sticky face as I try to ignore it and the many responsibilities the day w...

I first heard about Remo Drive, the young Minnesota-based indie rock/emo band, through maybe the most unlikely and unexpected way: at a Mitski show in Copenhagen, per recommendation from a Danish fan I had met ...

One foot on the monitor, surveying the crowd, Thursday’s Geoff Rickley gestured to the giant decorations covering the venue’s wall behind him. The seminal emo act’s logo — a stenciled dove in flight —...

On February 12, Donald J. Trump, blubbering rocker who is recognized by less than half of the American population as "their president," and his boy band of puppets — together known as the Sad Hombres — drop...

Evan Weiss, with his solo project, Into It. Over It., has built a worthy successor atop the graves of Sunny Day Real Estate and American Football. Rather than reinvent the genre, Weiss has evolved it without sh...

It's a wonderful feeling when a band can be both sweetly nostalgic while maintaining a wholly mature and unique sound. Joyce Manor, although hailed as being a leader in the emo-revival movement, is doing ...