Of course, they didn’t invent emo (that dubious honor often gets awarded to ’80s D.C. hardcore band Rites of Spring), but Weezer parlayed its early success into 1996’s Pinkerton. Their sophomore ...

The original event, Emo Nite L.A., began in December 2014, when three friends — Barbara Szabo, T.J. Petracca and Morgan Freed — threw a party at an Echo Park dive bar, set to an all-emo ...

Members of emo acts like The Maine and Mayday Parade were so bummed out that they decided to do something about it and in 2019 helped launch the Sad Summer Festival.

Sad Summer Festival is on the cover of Alternative Press' summer 2023 issue. Read an excerpt now, where the Maine explore becoming a better kind of touring emo fest.

The Sad AF Collective, as they’re called, assemble there for an Emo Nite – one of rocking out, headbanging and scream-singing, along with food and beer from the local brewery.

If early 2000s emo music was a staple of many students’ teenage years, there’s a place they can go to in Columbus to rage their hearts out. Sad Boyz, a 21-plus throwback DJ set that started in ...

When the summer long Vans Warped Tour officially stopped crisscrossing the country in 2018 with its lineup of dozens of punk, emo, screamo, pop punk and hip-hop artists, fans were left feeling a bit ...