Emo Music Trends

Emo Music

Music plays a vital role in the emo culture. For many emo youths, music provides a creative means of self-expression. Whether they are creating their own tunes or listening to emo bands, emo youths seem to be most comfortable in the musical setting. In fact, emo has developed into its own musical genre. With roots in punk and hardcore rock, emo music varies between soft and hard, slow and fast beats.


What makes music identifiable as emo, though, is not necessarily its composition. Rather, the lyrics play an important role. Emo music features lyrics that talk about the problems and challenges faced by emo youths in their daily lives. This ranges from family fights, broken hearts, loss of friendship, depression, and much more. The first bands were referred to as “emocore” and many came out of America’s Washington, D.C. region. However, the movement has since grown and many famous bands have legions of emo fans. Some of the most notable include My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Senses Fail, and Dashboard Confessional. Despite their devoted following, many emo youths have started to move away from such famous groups. They prefer more of the local, independent music scene. Emo bands can earn quite a following, though, and greatly impact the thoughts and feelings of their listeners.

Emo Music

Emo Music

Music plays a vital role in the emo culture. For many emo youths, music provides a creative means of self-expression. Whether they are creating their own tunes or listening to emo bands, emo youths seem to be most comfortable in the musical setting. In fact, emo has developed into its own musical genre. With roots in punk and hardcore rock, emo music varies between soft and hard, slow and fast beats.

What makes music identifiable as emo, though, is not necessarily its composition. Rather, the lyrics play an important role. Emo music features lyrics that talk about the problems and challenges faced by emo youths in their daily lives. This ranges from family fights, broken hearts, loss of friendship, depression, and much more. The first bands were referred to as “emocore” and many came out of America’s Washington, D.C. region. However, the movement has since grown and many famous bands have legions of emo fans. Some of the most notable include My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Senses Fail, and Dashboard Confessional. Despite their devoted following, many emo youths have started to move away from such famous groups. They prefer more of the local, independent music scene. Emo bands can earn quite a following, though, and greatly impact the thoughts and feelings of their listeners.

Emo Kids

Emo Kids

The term “emo” refers to a youth counterculture that has become quite popular over the last several years. It stems from the word “emotional” and defines its adherents by their attitude, musical choices, and personal style. In terms of popular culture, emo kids define their scene by a particular musical style. Originally known as “emocore,” this music is now referred to as simply emo. It is a variation on punk and rock that seeks to express deep emotions.

Emo Kids Spring Summer 2009 Edition

Emo takes many of its stylistic and musical trends from the punk phenomena that began in the 1980s. Both sexes tend to wear tight jeans, graphic t-shirts, canvas sneakers, and a variety of unique accessories. As for the personality traits ascribed to emo kids, most tend to be quite expressive. They may enjoy creative forms of sharing their emotions, such as through writing, poetry, or drawing. Some people associate emo kids with depression and self-destructive behavior. However, this generalization is more of a stereotype than a statement of truth. Ultimately, everyone expresses their emo culture in their own way. Although many see emo culture as simply a fad, it has been thriving for over a decade and shows no sign of slowing down.

Emo music

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The roots of the emo music goes back to the 80's. The emo genre is a subdivision of the punk, wich is a subdivision of the goth. The popular hardcore punk rockbands were the first emo bands. After that they called it emocore, a word mare up from the emotional and hardcore words.
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The first breath of the emocore was the first part of the emo story, the first period. Just to mention them: Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, etc...
They were really cool until the beggining of the 90's, after they split up, we can say that the first period was over.
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In 1994, in the garden of underground indie the emo music style just reborned, cause of Fugazi and the Dischord records. The second wave or period was still just inside the USA. But the third wave was sentenced for world popularity! It caused by the record companies that tried to made up a lot of emo formations, and bands, and bulid emo communities all around the world.emo We are still in this period, and that is the hottest little fashion on the streets right now. From nowdays, just to mention some bands: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, AFI, etc... But that is the point when you can't be up to date, cause emo bands going down, and coming up every week, so just keep looking on the web for emo music, or emo bands and listen'em!
this post if from http://jherson84.blogspot.com/2008/04/emo-music.html

About the emo music

emo music has been subject of much debate since it first appeared. So...emo is a genre of rock music. At first, the term was used to describe a subgenre of hardcore punk in the '80s. Later, 'emocore' was used to describe the DC scene and regional scenes related.
The biggest names of the period are Fire Party, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Embrace, Beefeater, Gray Matter, and Moss Icon.

The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s. In the mid '90s, 'emo' began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi. Bands like 'Texas is the reason' and 'Sunny Day Real Estate' introduced a more indie rock style of emo, less violent than it's predecessor. "Indie emo" survived until the late '90s. As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture.

Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's

emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.
› Bands
Here are some bands that members from our forum recommend, you can also tell your opinion about them if you register there. Also, if your favourite band isn't listed here, we would be grateful if you would post it in our forum.

Before listing the bands we would like to mention we strongly DON'T recommend you bands like My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy.


Emo Bands

* Matchbook Romance
* Moss Icon
* City of Caterpillar
* Rites of Spring
* Poison the Well
* The Rocket Summer
* Tomorrow's Last Hero
* Senses Fail


Screamo Bands

* The Used
* Love Like Electrocution
* Clip the Apex
* Neil Perry
* Ape Shit
* The Khayembii Communique
* I Would Set Myself on Fire For You
* Herbrightskies


Post-Emo Bands

* Mineral
* Sense Field
* Texas Is The Reason
* Jimmy Eat World


Indie Bands

* Dashboard Confessional
* Death Cab for Cutie
* Straylight Run
* Cursive
* Patrick Wolf
* Beep Beep
* North Of America
* The Driveway
* Cansei de Ser Sexy
* Elliott Smith
* The Summer Obsession
* The Scene Aesthetic


Hardcore Bands

* Bring me the horizon
* Circle Takes the Square


Post-Hardcore Bands

* From first to last
* Saosin
* A day to remember
* Thursday
* Funeral for a friend
* Enter Shikari
* Emanuel
* LoveHateHero


Punk Bands

* Blink 182
* Jawbreaker
* NOFX
* Billy Talent
* Dirty Little Monkey
* Sum 41
* Rise Against


Metal Bands

* Within Temptation
* Bullet for my Valentine
* Staind
* NightWish
* Anathema
* Avenged sevenfold
* Otep
* Cradle of Filth
* Slipknot
* Hatebreed
* Chimaira
* System Of A Down
* HIM
* Rhapsody of Fire
From http://www.luv-emo.com/emomusic.html