June 25, 2026 junejunejuly’s “a false warmth””: East Westphalia DIY, 5th wave emo and five DIY labels across four continents
June 25, 2026 Midwest emo act MOCK BISHOP premiere debut EP, six songs about drift, addiction, and finding the room again
June 18, 2026 OR DOES IT EXPLODE catch the panic of the present, track American authoritarianism across “Realities Disguised as Symbols”
June 17, 2026 Richmond emo post hardcore teens GAFFER sign to Ephyra, talk “Money” and the Richmond chain that made them
June 2, 2026 Emo punk rockers RACOONHEAD premiere “Same Old Haunts” video, shot on a live Melbourne airport runway
June 1, 2026 DEARHEART trace the later stages of grief on their second album “Until All the Light in Us Is Given Up”
May 27, 2026 “Wszystko robimy razem”: wracaj, bo ciemno and milion lat przestępnych turn 17 gigs of friendship into a split EP
May 19, 2026 Indie pop punk rockers ELEPHANT JAKE walk through “’98”, shaped by Masayoshi Takanaka and the loss of two grandfathers
May 19, 2026 Chris Broach (BRAID) pulls from Orwell on “Ministry of Truth,” from new solo EP “Reality Sufferer”
May 18, 2026 JAGUERO on the displacement, burnout and defiance running through “Make Me Feel Alive Again”
May 15, 2026 ROBO PUMPKIN’s indie emo debut “The Autumn Here” arrives without a single guitar on the record
May 15, 2026 Nebraska emo band LOU LOU LOUIE! discuss small emo scene, four-hour round trips, and “Social Smoking”
May 14, 2026 Gol Olímpico share “respirar en cuadro,” a shoegaze panic-attack song built around box breathing and the songwriter who first showed them emo in Spanish
May 14, 2026 Premiere: CAR VS. DRIVER’s “Without A Day” from “Deja Grateful” reissue, 30 years out of print
May 7, 2026 Power pop emo rockers POWER BURKAS turn fricandó, CrossFit, and a torn-down market into their fourth album “Amb la fi al davant”
May 6, 2026 Emotive post hardcore band MUROSUONO ditch the FOMO on “Chimera,” great new album co-released by five labels
May 5, 2026 JARDIN ANIMAL walk through Midwest emo earworm “Pudo Ser Peor,” building a scene from Managua outward, and finding emo friends across Latin America
April 30, 2026 SYDNEY share “Things Could Be Better” feat. Keith Buckley, the first piece of “Attachments”
April 27, 2026 “Failed As A Friend”: Polish math rock turned emo – FOR EXAMPLE JOHN premiere new album!
April 24, 2026 Toronto emo post hardcore band DIAMOND WEAPON return with “Letters from the Flood,” an adventurous EP shaped by a year of funerals
April 24, 2026 Calgary’s rockers HOWELLS detail the three-hour writing session behind new “Overflow” video with Astrology Girl
April 17, 2026 Emo rocker Brightr on the autumn that nearly broke him, Julien Baker in traffic, and new double A-side “Pob Lwc”
April 14, 2026 THE ARRIVALS break down “Payload,” a Chicago return record with colonization, class war, and no patience for bullshit
April 10, 2026 San Diego emo band SMALL TALK turn loss, lineup changes, and time into something that still lingers on “what’s gone never left”
April 3, 2026 Baltimore’s emo alt rockers STILL BONES turn frustration into motion on collaborative EP “Start/Stop”
