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From Bad Bunny to Lady Gaga to Sinners, our editorial staff's favorite LPs from the first half of the year.
What better genre of music to comfort you through your heartbreak than emo? Here are the 25 best emo songs for your breakup playlist.
Read the heartfelt lyrics of Revenge by XXXTENTACION, a song about pain, heartbreak, and personal struggles, offering a raw & emotional look into the artist’s life.
Nolan Taylor is the latest country songwriter baring his soul about depression and insecurity, part of the 'emo country' subgenre.
In a new video for “Torture On 3,” photographer Patrick John Horne turns Big Sad’s nihilistic punk anthem into an anxiety-inducing cartoon (“For every beautiful death, there’s a couple ...
Beachboy by McCafferty Another midwest emo (modern) classic, McCafferty does a great job of encapsulating the feeling of the late fall and winter months that bring a sense of seasonal depression and ...
If you've been jamming to a feel-good song, only to eventually find out how sad or dark the lyrics are, you're not alone.
“Backslide” sits in the midst of Twenty One Pilots’ past and future. It leans into the band’s iconic emo-style lyrics while trying out a new pop/pop-hop sound.
In heavy music, sadness is often resigned (to the tune of poor jokes) for emo and '80s hair ballads. We're here to tell you that's just not true. Our proof?
Ithaca singer Djamila Azzouz talks us through the soundtrack to her life. Spoiler alert: she likes Slipknot. Double-spoiler alert: “F*ck Toploader…” ...