Rainer Maria

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.

Plus: Andre 3000, CSS, Guided by Voices, Offset, Bratmobile, Mr Bungle, and more tour and festival news.

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.

2003 was a crucial year for the 2000s emo/post-hardcore boom. Here are 30 classics from that year, including Thursday, Thrice, Cursive, The Appleseed Cast, Death Cab for Cutie, The Jealous Sound, and more…

In honor of the 20th anniversary of emo’s breakout year, this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at the 20 best emo albums of 2001.

Ben Geier has been digitizing and uploading footage shot at Chicago’s Fireside Bowl in the late ’90s, including full sets of The Promise Ring, Mineral, Rainer Maria, The Get Up Kids, Los Crudos, Joan of Arc, and more…

1996 was a historic year for emo. This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at 18 landmark emo (and emo-adjacent post-hardcore) albums from that year in honor of their 25th anniversaries…

It’s the Rainer Maria singer/bassist’s third solo album and first in a decade.

‘Exquisite Corpse’ features one-of-a-kind collaborations featuring 47 members of the Polyvinyl family, including members of American Football, Rainer Maria, Pedro the Lion, The Get Up Kids, Beach Slang, Vivian Girls, Xiu Xiu, SSLYBY, and more.