Hit Man Dreams by the underappreciated San Diego band No Knife showcases the band's unique blend of post-hardcore, indie rock, and emo

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

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

With Jets To Brazil's debut Orange Rhyming Dictionary, Blake Schwarzenbach expanded on the Jawbreaker sound with a heady post-hardcore twist

Karate's understated post-rock album In Place of Real Insight showcases subtle jazz and blues influences but suffered from sameness

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

We revisit the 2000 album 100 Broken Windows by Idlewild and consider if it's the first great indie rock album of the decade

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.

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.

Facebook love, or is disagreement on the horizon?

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?