Contributions
Panic! At The Disco’s Brendon Urie has become the scene’s surprising woke hero
There are no guarantees in the music industry, but the closest assumption we can make is this: If you hope to become a career-lifer, you have to be willing to evolve. No one wants to hear the same record twice and no artist wants to live in a place of redundancy. In pop-punk/emo world, no […]
10 emo, pop-punk bands keeping the scene alive in Philadelphia
Philadelphia might not have the sort of scene-specific legacy of Long Island or New Jersey, but the tri-state metropolis has become an epicenter for experimental emo and progressive pop punk in the last few years. But that’s not all the city has to offer: Lately, silly Philly is being viewed as a hotbed for guitar-based […]
From First To Last & Skrillex: On emo revivalism and new nostalgia
On January 16, 2017, Sonny Moore turned 29. For those who’ve followed his career since the beginning, the man now known best as popular EDM DJ Skrillex has had a complicated relationship with aging—it was only a decade ago when he was posting sentimental MySpace blog posts about not wanting to turn 19—and it seems […]
One Year Later: How 'Fan Girl' sought to validate the fangirl experience
On paper, it’s enough to make even the most casual Freeform viewer cringe: Fan Girl is a movie that seeks to engage the fan experience using All Time Low as a singular focal point of affection. Mad Men star Kiernan Shipka plays Telulah Farrow, the fangirl in question, as the flick follows her foray into […]
5 Seconds of Summer’s Girls: How Pop-Punk’s Biggest (Boy) Band Explore Female Autonomy
Call them what you want: Pop-punk, boy band or the death of both (idyllically they blur the lines between the two titles in a way Fall Out Boy once did and All Time Low aspire to): 5 Seconds Of Summer are unavoidably huge, and their power comes from the loyal young women that support them. […]