Real EMO culture and community is all about being emotional, voicing independent opinions, adopting EMO fashions, be themselves and being different from the mainstream. There is nothing wrong in being EMO. Do you often wonder as to how do I ascertain that I am a real EMO? Well, there are tons of quiz and tests […]

Are you wondering about what fits best to you – Emo or Scene? Well, just make few points clear in your mind before you decide what suits you best.
·         Scene is all about fashion unlike Emo which generally goes with music cult. Scene is essentially cool whereas Emo is marked by emotionalism that revolves around […]

Portraits of Past has said many times they hate being called Emo, but the Emo community continues not to care.  They love their music, because it fits so nicely into the Emo category with its high-caliber, crashing beauty.  They have epic length songs which build to surprise stops and which contain long indie-rock guitar portions […]

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Emo music and emo songs
Unfortunately, it appears that Navio Forge’s “As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into . . .” is out of print, and there was never a CD version of the 12″ EP.  It’s unfortunate, because this is definitely the most — well, “Emo” of the Emo records. It has a […]

We continue our series on the best music enjoyed by the Emo community.  This is part 14.  The last several songs in this series are considered Post-Emo Indie Music–yet highly enjoyed by the new generation of Emos.
The Promise Ring released “30 Degrees Everywhere” as LP and CD through Jade Tree Records.  This is low-fi […]

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Nation of Ulysses’ first CD / LP was “Plays Pretty for Baby“  introduced us to Emo-as-stylish-trend, but it was their second LP where they really caught hold and found a niche for themselves.  That second one had excellent songs with distinct trumpet blasts and stylish jazz interludes. All of their music has a […]

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Merel has a CD / LP that features crazy chaos with a maze of looping, oddball riffs, that practically leaves you dizzy after listening to it.
Antioch Arrow’s CD and LP, “In Love with Jetts,” was released by Gravity.  It is chaotic and hardcore.  The music is somewhat nonsensical, and many in the past […]

Emo Girls in 2008
Walk down a street today and you are likely to see a score of Emo girls. You will though be able to tell whether they have adopted the Emo scene because they like the fashion or because they are true Emo girls. The Emo style is a true icon of 2008, and […]

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Fuel, available as both a CD and the old, traditional LP format.  This should not be confused with a newer band heard on radio lately, also called Fuel.  The Fuel we’re referring to comes to us from the ’80s, and featured powerful songs built on the Fugazi foundation.  Anything by this group is […]

It’s honestly hard to pick out an incident or person as the one single origin of Emo. If you try to trace it to one particular rock band, they will state that they don’t even consider themselves Emo, so it’s a confusing subject. But for our purposes, let’s look at the traditional explanation: Most people […]