Jawbreaker's 1995 album Dear You blended raw emotion with melodic punk, but polarized fans with polished production and a cleaner sound

Samiam evolved from Bay Area skate punks to emo-tinged pop-punks on 1997's fan-dividing You Are Freaking Me Out

Angular, dissonant guitars dominate Flu Thirteen's 1998 sophomore album in the post-hardcore territory of At The Drive-in, Cursive, and more

Ten years after disagreeing over Seaweed's 1993 album Four, we give the 1995 major label follow-up Spanaway a chance to mend the fracture

Can a band still make a masterpiece even as they're falling apart? We revisit the 1995 sophomore self-titled album by Sunny Day Real Estate

To kick-off our new roundtable series on the touring festivals of the 90s, we're going back to 1995 to revisit the start of the Warped Tour

The Promise Ring twist and turn pop structures to unique results on their 1997 album Nothing Feels Good

We revisit the albums of 1998 that stood the test of time, that we discovered years later, that didn't hold up, and much more

Tim Kasher of The Good Life and Cursive stops by to talk about his new solo album No Resolution out on his new label 15 Passenger.

Andrew Low of The Jazz June stops by to talk the history of hte band, recording with J. Robbins, his current work and more.

What is Emo? We try to figure that out by diving into the history, the bands, the unique sounds and more

A unique story and influential band on emo and post-hardcore bands.

Clarity represents musical highpoint for not only emo, but rock music at the end of the 20th Century.

Combining disjointed rhythms and razor sharp guitar riffs, aMiniature are in the same stratosphere as the recently reviewed Knapsack.

One of the most influential albums of the 1990s, Diary. Credited as a primary instigator of what would later be known as emo,

Are they punk? Are the emo? Are they pre-emo? Are they post-punk?