Genre
Emo
17 bands in the Top 500 carry Emo as a primary or secondary tag.
- 17 bands
- 2000s dominant era
- 1 countries
- #157 Jimmy Eat World
Mesa, Arizona band whose 'Bleed American' became emo's mainstream entry.
- #158 Dashboard Confessional
Chris Carrabba's confessional acoustic-emo project, a 2000s phenomenon.
- #159 My Chemical Romance
New Jersey theatrical emo whose 'Black Parade' defined the era.
- #160 Fall Out Boy
Chicago pop-punks whose hooks pushed emo onto mainstream radio.
- #161 Panic! at the Disco
Vegas band whose vaudevillian emo-pop dominated late-2000s charts.
- #162 Paramore
Tennessee pop-rockers whose evolution carried emo's hooks into the 2010s.
- #164 Thursday
New Jersey post-hardcore band whose 'Full Collapse' is an emo cornerstone.
- #165 Taking Back Sunday
Long Island emo-rockers behind a string of mid-2000s genre-defining LPs.
- #166 Brand New
Long Island band whose ambitious arc brought literary emo to indie spaces.
- #167 The Used
Utah post-hardcore band of howling melodrama and Warped-tour catharsis.
- #168 Saosin
Orange County post-hardcore band whose technical chops set a 2000s template.
- #169 Senses Fail
New Jersey post-hardcore lifers and Warped-tour stalwarts.
- #489 Cursive
Omaha emo-leaning indie-rock band of literate concept albums.
- #490 The Get Up Kids
Kansas City Midwest-emo standard-bearers.
- #491 Sunny Day Real Estate
Seattle emo originators whose 'Diary' shaped second-wave emo.
- #492 American Football
Urbana emo-twinkle pioneers whose lone 90s LP became a cult classic.
- #493 Mineral
Texas emo band whose two 90s LPs remain genre essentials.