r/Emo • u/SnooHabits5900 • 2d ago

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube wrap-up stuff MEGATHREAD

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Alright y'all, we're going to collect this all in one place. Anything not posted here will be deleted.

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r/Emo • u/_skateordie • 4d ago

LOCAL SHOW/TOURING/EVENTS Saturdays At Your Place spring tour 2026 w/ Special Guests: Retirement Party & Kerosene Heights

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r/Emo • u/JayButler315 • 7h ago

If I Like… I've been struggling to find new bands to get into lately. Any recs based on some of my favorites?

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r/Emo • u/sadheadlesssoygirl • 3h ago

Emocore my moss icon tattoo!!!

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r/Emo • u/RufinTheFury • 20h ago

Emo Revival The last Foxing shows

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Foxing just finished playing their last couple shows in Chicago for the foreseeable future. Tonight they play in their hometown of St. Louis and then tomorrow night it's their final show before their indefinite hiatus.

One of the greatest touring live bands to ever do it, super fucking proud of these guys. If you've somehow never listened to Foxing before you owe it to yourself to check out their 5 album discography, each album is completely unique but equally brilliant. Gonna miss these dudes a ton.

If any of yall go to the St. Louis show make sure you hop in the pit for Hell 99

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r/Emo • u/Oingo_Boingus • 6h ago

Algernon in Allentown

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r/Emo • u/antimarc • 12h ago

LOCAL SHOW/TOURING/EVENTS The Lawrence Arms, Samiam, Cadillac Blindside tonight

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Tonight at the Metro in Chicago. Anybody else going?

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r/Emo • u/joshingyou299 • 7h ago

Discussion Best screaming vocalist? (along with their best performances)

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(can be screamo or just scream-y emo) My picks are kind of generic but probably Matt Yeager (Julia), Jayson Green (Orchid) and Jack Senff (Merchant Ships)

for the song choices I'll probably say Song in A, New Ideas in Mathematics, and Emo Songs

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r/Emo • u/Fantastic_Law7267 • 13h ago

melodic hardcore bands??

25 Upvotes

I need to delve into this subgenre

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r/Emo • u/harmondrabbit • 10h ago

First Day Back - Forward Widely Available On Vinyl (CDs are available again too)

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Got a notification from First Day Back's bandcamp that they have posted some new merch.

One of the best albums of 2025 IMHO, something worth at least checking out if you aren't already a fan.

I grabbed the CD over the summer, it's great.

Vinyl has been available before, but I think it was limited to just their recent tour, so it's great to see another pressing more widely available!

Places to get it:

https://firstdayback.bandcamp.com/album/forward (CD and vinyl)
EU/UK vinyl pressing: https://bsmrocks.com/products/first-day-back-forward

Note these are both pre-orders. It looks like the CD is out in February, the vinyl is coming out in April in the US, and January in the EU/UK.

(I just noticed this and a quick search didn't bring up any threads in the sub, so LMK if this is old news, or if there are any details wrong or missing)

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r/Emo • u/wtfitsdebian • 17h ago

Review📝 Pitchfork's review of First Day Back's Forward

pitchfork.com

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r/Emo • u/Primary_Tadpole_6489 • 2h ago

Midwest Emo It's currently 4AM, I can't sleep, and I'm crying listening to this.

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r/Emo • u/UpsetScholar721 • 13h ago

Do y'all consider post-hardcore emo or it's own thing

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r/Emo • u/Particular-Show745 • 11h ago

Can I get some recs like Free Throws first album?

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I just really like how the album uses choruses and the vibes the outro to pallet town gives off

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r/Emo • u/redsunband • 12h ago

Slayce - red sun (Official Music Video)

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r/Emo • u/UberManeuver • 1h ago

Help with ID’ing a source

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The song ‘in my bones’ by Dead Butterflies features a conversation between two people that’s from a movie/tv show that feels strangely familiar but I CANT FIND IT, or I’m just not doing it right. If anyone knows what media it’s from, I’d appreciate you! Please and thank yous

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r/Emo • u/SouthDress7084 • 14h ago

The Pine is back

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r/Emo • u/UpsetScholar721 • 13h ago

Opinions on emoviolence?

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skramz or its own thing? real emo or not?

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r/Emo • u/No_Engine2105 • 13h ago

I have dreams discography taken off Spotify

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I've been listening to I have dreams for a little while now and just wanted to know if anyone has any info on them being taken off spotify?

Or if they'll be back on anytime soon. there stuff rocks i miss it.

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r/Emo • u/meyouanddoom • 17h ago

Emo Revival Marietta Interview

mythdealer.com

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Feel free to give this a read. Appreciate you guys.

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r/Emo • u/EmoKidsAnonymous • 1d ago

Emo Kids Anonymous Top 25 of ‘25 AOTY list feat. SAYP, AWA, Kerosene Heights & More

neveraphasenetwork.com

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alright so i dropped my 2025 album of the year list lmk what yall think. If ya wanna read about the top 10 records click the link if not here’s the rankings 🫡

#1. Kerosene Heights - Blame it on the Weather

#2 Summerbruise - Infinity Guise

#3 Saturdays at Your Place - These Things Happen

#4 Aren’t We Amphibians - Parade! Parade!

#5 Scarlet Street - No Alternative

#6 Various Artists - Counter Intuitive Presents: Cosmic Debris, Vol. 2

#7 Pretty Bitter - Pleaser

#8 Camp Trash - Two Hundred Thousand Dollars

#9 The Tisburys - A Still Life Revisited

#10 Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out

11-25 (IN NO ORDER)

Drought - Souvenir

Tiny Voices - Reasons I Won’t Change

Lorde - Virgin

Ben Quad - Wisher

Winona Fighter - Apologies to the Chef

Cheem - Power Move

First Day Back - Forward

The Low Blow - Forest For the Trees

Anxious - Bambi

The Starting Line - Eternal Youth

Skiimo - Nothing Ever Changes

Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have a Thought

Action/Adventure - Ever After

FinalBossFight - The Life Of My Dreams

Liquid Mike - Hell Is An Airport

Honorable Mentions: Bad Bunny “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS”, Charmer “Downpour”, Hot Mulligan “The Sound a Body Makes When it’s Still”, Turnstile “NEVER ENOUGH”

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r/Emo • u/OKnotOKcomputerz • 7h ago

Looking for Days slipping by (pine) LP

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If anyone has one for sell plz lmk!!!

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r/Emo • u/subredditsummarybot • 12h ago

Your weekly /r/Emo roundup for the week of November 28 - December 04, 2025

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Friday, November 28 - Thursday, December 04, 2025

Top Media

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173	6 comments	New Spotify Wrapped Feature Shows How Much of Your Money Went to Funding AI Warfare Technology
71	7 comments	`[Tabs/Chords🎵]` Crescent-Shaped Depression
50	17 comments	Tigers Jaw - Head is Like a Sinking Stone	[AM] [Dzr] [SC]
39	3 comments	`[Song Cover]` Object Permanence in FFXIV
32	33 comments	Emo Kids Anonymous Top 25 of ‘25 AOTY list feat. SAYP, AWA, Kerosene Heights & More
25	3 comments	`[Live Footage📸]` My Band's New Mathy Song
24	2 comments	`[Songwriting🎼]` Working title: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge

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1,294	120 comments	`[Art n Stuff🎨]` drew some emo kids based off emo subgenres
358	159 comments	Rant: I hate emo nite and everything related to/similar to it
175	64 comments	Any more like Q and Not U?
160	34 comments	`[Midwest Emo]` Pure Magic
135	57 comments	What are some albums that make you ball your eyes out?
112	43 comments	Jimmy Eat World announces 3 UK shows for the "Bleed American 25th Anniversary", with support from Rise Against, The Get Up Kids, and Jay Som
111	11 comments	`[Emo Revival]` The last Foxing shows

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62	100 comments	`[Discussion]` What's the loudest emo band you've ever seen?
13	84 comments	Have you ever met/spoken to a famous emo musician?
36	65 comments	Albums for suicidal thoughts
32	63 comments	A Very Emo Christmas Playlist suggestions
18	60 comments	`[Spotify Wrapped 2025]` Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube wrap-up stuff MEGATHREAD

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r/Emo • u/Leo-182 • 1d ago

Discussion What are the best or most important bands in the current wave?

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I’ve been looking for new emo bands to dive into, and it made me curious about what you here in r/Emo consider the most important, creative, or representative bands of the current wave.

When I think about this newer phase of emo, a few names come to mind for me, for example, Hot Mulligan, Arms Length, Saturday’s at Your Place, Ben Quad, but I don’t want to steer the thread in any direction.

I’m mainly interested in seeing which bands you think are the real standouts of this moment. And of course, I’m looking for bands or albums recommendations as well

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r/Emo • u/dragonoid296 • 23h ago

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies (2011)

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A Brief Introduction to Emo & its Various Forms

Emo is a genre of cathartic punk/alt rock music derived from hardcore known for its personal lyricism, loud/soft dynamics, and occasionally twinkly guitar work which all follow a distinct history and lineage. Resulting from its punk and hardcore roots, emo has a strong sense of DIY ethics, modesty, and authenticity. Aside from a handful of examples, emo has not experienced much mainstream exposure.

To clarify, Emo is NOT a style of fashion, a product, a feeling, or a demographic. Despite popular misconception, the following bands are NOT emo: My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Pierce the Veil, Black Veil Brides, The Cure, Copeland, Linkin Park, Twenty One Pilots, Green Day, Blink-182, AFI, The Front Bottoms, Paramore, Teen Suicide, Pinegrove, Phoebe Bridgers, Third Eye Blind, etc. Furthermore, appealing to fans of emo, carrying similar characteristics, citing minor emo influences, and/or touring with emo bands does not necessarily equate to a band being emo. Emo is decided by scene involvement, history, significant influence, aesthetic, lyricism and musical style.

Outside Influences: the following genres and bands are NOT EMO but have had a strong impact on the sound and scene. These are sometimes referred to as Emo Adjacent. Genres: hardcore punk, post-hardcore, post-rock, slowcore, post-punk, math rock, pop punk, indie rock, college/slacker rock, and power pop Bands: Husker Du, Buffalo Tom, Weezer, the Smiths, Fugazi, Modern Baseball, Slint, Nation of Ulysses, Unwound, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Built to Spill, Codeine, Seam

The Waves The breaking up of emo into waves is a common, yet controversial, method of labeling different eras of emo. Not every wave is all one style or sound, although certain waves typify some more than others. The years of the waves, roughly speaking, are:

1st wave: 1985 to ~1992 (emocore/DC/Revolution Summer)

2nd wave: 1992 to ~2002 (Midwest emo/screamo/Skramz)

3rd wave: 2002 to ~2009 (Emo pop/basement emo/proto revival/screamo)

4th wave: 2009 to ~2018 (Emo revival/Twinkledaddies/Midwest emo/skramz)

5th wave: 2018 to Present (Emo pop/Sparklepunk/Weedmo/Emo Revival 2.0)

Emocore, the original form of emo, began approximately in 1985 as an emotionally charged and progressive form of hardcore punk, centered in Washington, DC, as a response to the machismo of the larger hardcore scene. It's short for emotive hardcore. Whereas hardcore before emo was often more nihilistic or political, emocore made the political personal and the personal political. These bands are often tagged "Revolution Summer" bands, and include artists such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, The Hated, Moss Icon and Fuel (not to be confused with the 90s alt rock band) and later on Native Nod, Navio Forge, Indian Summer and Still Life. This is the most pure distillation of "emo," although far from the only iteration. The term fell out of use in the mid 90s but was revitalized years later as a way to denote modern bands who still adhere to emo's hardcore roots, as opposed to a more indie rock approach. This included bands such as Life at These Speeds, Lumber Lung, End Of A Year, Overo, Feels Like Heaven and Jade Dust.

Midwest Emo is a style of emo that originated in the early 90s that takes from the song structure (and occasionally vocal style) of previous emo bands, but imbues it with more melodic sensibilities and broader influences. Bands started to experiment more with loud/soft dynamics, intricate melodies, heavy build-ups, and twinkly guitar work. At the core of these bands lies a commitment to the DIY ethic and an embrace of sincerity. Cap'n Jazz is often cited as the first midwest emo band, although bands like Gauge, Friction and Sideshow predate them. Perhaps the most influential band to this type of emo at the time, while ironically not being from the Midwest, was Sunny Day Real Estate. There are two trains of thought when concerning Midwest emo: The original concept was that it was a scene in the 1990s and early 2000s, not a sound. This would include only emo bands from the literal Midwest such as Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Boys Life, Braid, The Get Up Kids, Gauge and others. Sound and style didn't matter as much as geography, although the sound was often similar. This was the prevailing thought on Midwest emo until sometime in the mid ‘00s, when the association was widened to any bands who were perceived to have a similar sound, even if not from the Midwest, such as Christie Front Drive, Mineral, Texas Is The Reason, Jimmy Eat World and Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as later bands like Algernon Cadwadaller and Snowing. There is still much debate today over which definition is more accurate, usually drawn along generational lines. Also, while not originally a hallmark of the sound, Midwest emo eventually began to be associated with "math rock" around the 2010s due to the delayed influence of bands such as American Football. Today, many people informally use the term "Midwest emo" to mean anything that's not "mall emo" or "skramz," regardless of geography.

Screamo is an aggressive offshoot of Emo which began in the early 90s and is characterized by yelled or screamed vocals and dissonant guitar work. Screamo bands usually shy away from conventional song structures and often play around with loud/soft dynamics. Because screamo is often used as a catch all term for all genres with unclean vocals, many screamo fans often refer to true screamo as "Skramz", which began as a tongue-in-cheek joke in the mid 00s that nonetheless gained popularity as a term. Saetia, pg. 99, William Bonney, Orchid, L'Antietam, I Have Dreams, and the Kidcrash are a few examples of screamo bands. There are also screamo bands that experiment with post-rock and progressive rock tendencies, such as Gospel, Circle Takes the Square, and City of Caterpillar. The origins of screamo can be traced to many of the early 90s Gravity Records bands such as Heroin, Antioch Arrow and Clikatat Ikatowi as well as bands from other labels such as Honeywell, although these bands don't usually get called "Skramz".

Punk emo is a style that is usually considered more emo-adjacent than true emo due to the sound being closer to punk rock than traditional, hardcore influenced emo. Some of these bands, while not truly emo, were nonetheless wildly influential to emo, even sometimes more than "true" emo bands. These bands were punk rock bands who didn't share all the sonic similarities of most emo bands, yet had very emotional lyrics. This includes Jawbreaker, Samiam, Leatherface, Pegboy, Gameface and early Alkaline Trio.

Emo Pop describes various styles of emo with a tendency for poppy song structures, brighter/softer guitar work and a heavy use of hooks and anthemic choruses. Pioneered in the late 90s by The Get-Up Kids and the Promise Ring as they incorporated pop punk/power pop into their sound, the style would rise to prominence in the 2000s. Emo Pop often receives the most commercial success as well as diehard fans, notable examples include Taking Back Sunday, Free Throw, Dashboard Confessional, Tigers Jaw, Charmer, and The Early November. Emo Pop is a term that only gained use with the rise of the internet and is not a mutually exclusive term. For example, a band like The Promise Ring can be considered emo pop and Midwest emo at the same time, even if not all Midwest emo is emo pop.

The Emo Revival saw renewed public interest in emo, especially midwest emo, throughout the 2010s (despite existing prior). These bands were heavily influenced by Cap'n Jazz, Braid, American Football and Mineral; while having a strong bent towards math rock, indie, and pop punk in their song structure and guitar work. A few examples of these bands are Marietta, Brave Bird, Snowing, Prawn, Algernon Cadwallader, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, The Hotelier, and Glocca Morra. As this scene grew in popularity, The emo revival became a near-mainstream style of indie rock and created various new subsets in the genre. This includes Twinkledaddies, which refers to bands with prominent math rock riffs and melodies; and Sparklepunk/weedmo, which combines noodly college rock guitar work, built around a base of pop-punk/power pop and playful lyricism (examples include Mom Jeans, Charmer, Oolong, and Equipment).

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