Braid

A look back on 30 emo, post-hardcore, and emo-adjacent albums from 2014, including The Hotelier, Modern Baseball, Pianos Become the Teeth, Cayetana, The Menzingers, La Dispute, and more.

Following some synthier projects, Chris Broach returns to the guitar for this new ripper.

The Las Vegas fest features Cap’n Jazz, Dismemberment Plan, Bright Eyes, Algernon Cadwallader, American Football, and more.

Best Friends Forever Fest’s amazing lineup also includes The Jesus Lizard, Unwound, Built To Spill, Braid, Rainer Maria, Piebald, Foxing, La Dispute, Mannequin Pussy, Sweet Pill, Pool Kids, Home Is Where, and much more.

Day 1 of Riot Fest 2023 also featured George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, The Interrupters, Braid, Yard Act, Pinkshift, Origami Angel, and more.

Conflicts include The Postal Service vs Mr. Bungle, The Breeders (playing Last Splash) vs Braid (playing Frame & Canvas), The Mars Volta vs Godspeed You! Black Emperor vs The Gaslight Anthem vs The Used, and more.

Fiddler Records founder Amy Fleisher Madden’s new book ’Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)’ features essays by members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Something Corporate, The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Texas Is The Reason, and Braid, and a foreword by Chris Carrabba.

PUP, Ride, Frank Turner, The Interrupters, and more are also playing Riot Fest aftershows this year.

The Chicago festival is headlined by Foo Fighters and Turnstile (on day 1), The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, and Queens of the Stone Age (on day 2), and The Cure and The Mars Volta (on day 3).

Plus: Brian Eno, Melvins / Boris, Punk Island, Hip Hop 50 Live, Trevor Noah, How Did This Get Made?, nothing.nowhere, Old 97’s / Drive-By Truckers, and more tour and festival news.