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Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.
Emo, whose participants are called emo kids or emos, is a subculture which began in the United States in the 1990s. [1] Based around emo music, the subculture formed in the genre's mid-1990s San Diego scene, where participants were derisively called Spock rock due to their distinctive straight, black haircuts.
Emo fashion includes skinny jeans, black eyeliner, tight t-shirt s with band names, studded belts, and flat, straight, jet-black hair with long bangs. Since the early-to-mid 2000s, fans of emo music who dress like this are referred to as "emo kids" or "emos".
Pop punk and emo are cut from the same musical cloth, so to speak, though pop punk generally blends catchy pop melodies with fast-paced punk rock, like Blink 182.
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 ...
The Get Up Kids performing at Emo's in 1997. While in high school, Ryan Pope, Rob Pope, and Jim Suptic formed a short-lived band called Kingpin. Matt Pryor had been writing songs since he was a teenager, and was playing in a band called Secret Decoder Ring. [8]
This is a list of Midwest emo bands. ... The Get Up Kids [40] Ghosts and Vodka [26] Glocca Morra [15] Gods Reflex [3] Gulfer; H. Harrison Gordon [41] Hop Along [15]
First-wave emo bands (13 P) A. American emo musical groups (2 C, 151 P) ... Pages in category "Emo musical groups" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of ...