Hot Rod Circuit

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.

Hot Rod Circuit are playing 2000’s classic ‘If It’s Cool With You, It’s Cool With Me’ at four Northeast shows and streaming the NYC gig.

Punchline will be playing ‘Action’ at the shows for its 20th anniversary.

In the first edition of our new recurring column on underrated classic albums, we look at 10 gems from early 2000s emo that we think deserve more love.

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.

Listen to new songs by Junip ft. Sharon Van Etten, The Voidz, Diddy, Dua Lipa, Confidence Man, Phoenix (Braxe + Falcon remix), Lucinda Williams, Mary Onettes, Tegan and Sara, Peso Pluma, Grupo Frontera, Midtown, EST Gee, and more.

We dive deeper into our recently-published list of the best emo & post-hardcore albums of 2002 with a podcast episode that dives into the making of the list, the albums on it, some albums that were left off, and more…

The emo floodgates opened in 2002. In honor of their 20th anniversaries, this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at the best emo and post-hardcore albums from that year.

With songs by blink-182, Box Car Racer, New Found Glory, Alkaline Trio, The Starting Line, American Nightmare, Glassjaw, Rival Schools, and more, ‘Atticus: …Dragging the Lake’ was a near-perfect snapshot of early 2000s punk.