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Emo Music

Music is another huge part of being Emo. If you can listen to an Emo album and have your face soaked with tears by the time you are done with the last track, then you are a true Emo and definitely have some future potential. If not, well, then... maybe you don't have what it takes.

About The Music

Emo is a rock music genre which is loaded with emotional lyrics. Over the years, it was seen as an underground genre until recent times, when it has exploded into the mainstream and become one of the most popular subcultures yet. The lyrics which come from these Emo bands will seem whiny and sensitive, but that's what it's all about! Listen to a lot of different Emo bands and see what style suits you the best. You may even want to try picking up an instrument, such as the guitar, bass, or violin. That way, you can make your own Emo tunes with your friends, or you can just express your heart's woe through your instrument. Violin is a good choice because of the ability to create extremely woeful sounding songs. The drums can also be a good instrument. You may even want to try writing your own Emo songs, or write Emo poetry and put it to music later.

Emo Bands

Here are a ton of Emo bands to get you started in your Emo music listening career.

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A Cursive Memory
A Day at the Fair
A Day in the Life
A Fall Farewell
A Static Lullaby
A Week in July
Aaron Kasenow
Acceptance
Ace Troubleshooter
Adair
Adam
Against Me!
Aiden
Aina
Alkaline Trio
All One Surface
Alli With an I
American Football
An Angle
Anadivine
Anasazi
Anatomy of a Ghost
Anberlin
Aphasia
Appleseed
Armor for Sleep
As Friends Rust
Ashen
At a Loss
At the Drive-In
Audio Karate
Audio Learning Center
Autopilot Off
Avenged Sevenfold

Bayside
Bedlight for Blue Eyes
Before Braille
Beloved
Benton Falls
Between Home & Serenity
Big City Dreams
Big, Big Furnace
Billy Talent
Binge
Blacktop Mourning
Blenderhead
Bob Tilton
Boundless and Starstruck
Boxer
Boy Sets Fire
Boys Life
Boys Like Girls
Boys Night Out
Braid
Brand New
Brandtson
Breaking Pangaea
Brian Wimpy
Bright Calm Blue
Brooklawn
Buck
Bureau of the Glorious
Burns Out Bright
Bye Sami

Caesura
Cain
Camden
Canterbury Effect
Cap'n Jazz
Car Vs. Driver
Castor
Castrol
Caustic Soda
Chalkline
Chamberlain
Champion
Chiodos
Chisel
Chokebore
Chomsky
Christiansen
Christie Front Drive
Circa Survive
Coach
Coastal Drag
Codeseven
Coheed & Cambria
Compound Red
Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Pilot
Coolidge
Cooter
Corm
Crime in Choir
Cross My Heart
Cru Jones
Cry Baby Cry
Cursive
Cute Is What We Aim For

Dahlia Seed
Dashboard Confessional
Dave Melillo
Dead Letter Auction
Dead Red Sea
Dear John Letters
Denver Harbor
Desaparecidos
Dies Irae
Dies Irae
Divit
Doomtree
Down to Earth Approach
Drive Til Morning
Duvall
désolé

F**Bomb
Failsafe
Fairview
Faktion
Fall Out Boy
Far
Far Apart
Favez
Fenix TX
Fields Lay Fallow
Fightstar
Filmmaker
Finch
Fingertight
Fire Divine
Fire When Ready
Fireside
First Comes Second
Fisticuffs Bluff
Five Deadly Venoms

Gatsbys American Dream
Gila Bend
Give Until Gone
Glassjaw
Goner
Grade
Grand National
Grand National
Guttersnipe

Halifax
Happy Campers
Hasse Mydtskov
Haste
Havilland
Hawk Nelson
Hellogoodbye
Hero of a Hundred Fights
Hey Mercedes
Hidden in Plain View
Hit the Lights
Homesick for Space
Hot Little Rocket
Hot Rod Circuit
Hot Water Music

JamisonParker
Jason Bowes
Jazz June
Jejune
Jeremy Ward
Jets to Brazil
Jettison Red
Jimmy Eat World
Joan of Arc
Joshua
Junction 18
June
Justifide

Landberk
Laymen Terms
Lazycain
Leaving Rouge
Lecter MD
Les Savy Fav
Lewis
Liars Academy
Life Before This
Lifetime
Logan Square
Long Since Forgotten
Longshot
Love-Cars
Lungfish
Lydia
Lync
Lynchpin

Mae
Making April
Man Alive
Maria Christopher
Matchbook Romance
Mates of State
Matt Watts
Melk
Michael
Midtown
Midvale
Mike Golla
Mike Housman
Milemarker
Mineral
Mock Orange
Modest Mouse
Moments in Grace
Moneen
Most Secret Method
My American Heart
My Chemical Romance
My Complex
My Frozen Heart
My Hotel Year
My Spacecoaster
m.I.J.
matt pond PA

Name Taken
National Acrobat
Nationale Blue
New End Original
New Found Glory
No Knife
North of America
Nuclear Saturday
Number One Fan
Nural

OS101
October Fall
On the Might of Princes
One Last Thing
Orange Island
Oswego
Over It
Owen
Owls

Panic! at the Disco
Paramore
Park
Party of Helicopters
Pedro the Lion
Perfectly Normal
Pete Appleby
Petland
Philo Beddow
Pidgeon
Pinebender
Pinq
Places to Park
Plain White T's
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Poor Me
Pop Unknown
Portrait
Pressure 4-5
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Project Rocket
Protest the Hero
Proudentall
Punchline
Putnam Hall

Quietdrive

Saetia
Saint James Infirmary
Saturday Supercade
Saves the Day
Say Anything
Schatzi
Sean Hoen
Sense Field
Senses Fail
Settlefish
Seven Storey
Seven Storey Mountain
Seville
Sharks & Minnows
Shortie
Shotmaker
Silverstein
Skeleton Key
Sleeping For Sunrise
Sleeping at Last
Sleepytime Trio
Sloppy Meateaters
Slow Coming Day
Slowride
Small Towns Burn a Little Slower
Snapcase
So They Say
Socratic
Somehow Hollow
Somerset
Something Corporate
Sometree
Sonny
Soren B. Corneliussen
Sounds Like Violence
Southcott
Sparta
Speedwell
Spirit That Guides Us
Spitalfield
Standstill
Staple
Staring Back
State Route 522
Stavesacre
Stella
Stigma Rock Unit
Still Life
Story of the Year
Straylight Run
Student Rick
Subject Bias
Sullivan
Sunday Driver
Sunday's Best
Sunny Day Real Estate
Surrounded
Sweep the Leg Johnny

Taken
Taking Back Sunday
Ten Grand
Terminal
Texas Is the Reason
The Academy Is...
The All Scars
The All-American Rejects
The Anniversary
The Apex Theory
The Appleseed Cast
The Audition
The Beautiful Mistake
The Black Maria
The Blood Brothers
The Casket Lottery
The City Drive
The City of Caterpillar
The Commercials
The Drive Back

Ultimate Fakebook
Under the Weather
Underoath
Uptown Sinclair
Utah!

Vendetta Red
Veneration
Vermont

Wake Hollywood
Waker
Walk Through Walls
Walker
Warfare 223
Watch It Burn
Weezer
Wheelie
White Octave
Wicked Farleys
World Leader Pretend

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