Grant Sharples

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10 music videos from the 1975 that should get their own movies

The Manchester-based quartet the 1975 are one of the most eclectic pop bands in recent memory. They’ve explored thrasher punk (“People”), four-on-the-floor pop (“The Sound”), SoundCloud rap (“I Like America & America Likes Me”) and emo (“Sex”). It comes as no surprise then that their music videos reflect this hybridized approach to songwriting, as each […]

10 reasons why Hayley Williams never really left the scene

Paramore are one of the definitive bands of the Warped Tour era. Though some of their peers are still churning out pop-punk tunes in the same vein as their first batch of records, Paramore have moved on to something different. On their 2013 self-titled LP, Hayley Williams and her bandmates took their emo foundation but […]

Top 10 new-wave emo artists to keep on your radar

Emo music is often relegated to the past. With bands such as the All-American Rejects and My Chemical Romance dominating the airwaves in the mid-aughts, it was certainly more popular then when compared to present day, but that doesn’t mean the genre is necessarily dead. There are numerous artists heralding a new era of emo, […]