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Scene. Emo / ˈiːmoʊ / is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. The bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others, pioneered the genre.
The Emo Nite event, now a full-fledged national business in its 10th year, started out as a way for creators Petracca and Freed to listen to the kind of music they enjoyed — despite it not being ...
Retrieved 2011-04-21. When emo seemed like a new concept – back in the previous millennium – there were a handful of bands that seemed to get it right the first time (Brandtson, Appleseed Cast, and Dear Ephesus). ^ Rogatis, Jim. "Album review: Death Cab for Cutie, "Codes and Keys" (Atlantic)". Wbez 91.5.
It was the early 2000s: emo music was making its mark on the world, and Say Anything’s Max Bemis was creating a masterpiece—while simultaneously losing his mind. While the band has since ...
Emo rap. Emo rap is a subgenre of hip hop with influence from emo. [7] Originating in the SoundCloud rap scene in the mid-2010s, [8] the genre fuses characteristics of hip hop music, such as trap-style beats with vocals that are usually sung. The most prominent artists in the genre were Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, and Juice Wrld.
The emo genre formed in the Washington D.C. music scene as a subgenre of hardcore punk in the 1980s, before reaching mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. [1] [2] Tom Mullen, who had discovered the genre through the underground punk scenes, first created the blog Washed Up Emo in 2007 in response to its increasing mainstream prevalence.
Screamo (also referred to as skramz [1]) is an subgenre of emo that emerged in the early 1990s and emphasizes "willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics". [2] San Diego–based bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow pioneered the genre in the early 1990s, and it was developed in the late 1990s mainly by bands from the East Coast of the United States such as Pg. 99, Orchid, Saetia, and I Hate Myself.
Midwest emo. Midwest emo (or Midwestern emo[1]) refers to the emo scene and/or subgenre [2] that developed in the 1990s Midwestern United States. Employing unconventional vocal stylings, distinct guitar riffs and arpeggiated melodies, [3] Midwest emo bands shifted away from the genre's hardcore punk roots and drew on indie rock and math rock ...