Emo is a lot like pornography – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it. There’s also a lot of fake…
Lots of bands create comeback releases after a brief (or long) hiatus, but not so many do it twice; Yellowcard managed to fly and reintroduce…
One of the more memorable bands to have come from the 2010s (even though they started just prior to 2010, but whatever.) is Touchè Amorè.…
The Juliana Theory are part groundbreaking melodic emo and part New Kids on the Block. The band was able to “popify” ’90s emo in a…
MTV had it all figured out during the ‘80s and ‘90s. The music video is the ideal art form, the one that stands atop all…
NEWARK, N.J. — Geologists predict the man and woman on the cover of My Chemical Romance’s landmark 2004 album “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” will…
If you ask the average lame-ass normie to name the best bands that have come from New Jersey they would inevitably say Bruce Springsteen and…
What do artists ranging from My Chemical Romance all the way to Ben Rector and fucking Taylor Swift have in common? They all fuck with…
Throughout the early to mid-aughts, seeing your favorite emo band perform meant either attending a live show, or turning on Fuse TV and hoping their…
The Cure rule. If you’re reading this, you probably agree with that statement. You also probably spent some time in your teenage years, smoking cloves…
Motion City Soundtrack were the undersung torch-bearers of Midwestern Emo long before the genre was appropriated by wildly inaccurate TikTok videos. If you haven’t visited…
Cursive is such a criminally overlooked band that many public schools have cut them from their curriculum entirely. We here at the Hard Times believe…
My Chemical Romance proved to the world just how far an oversexed MySpace profile could take you in this world. Sex it up right and…
Long before Conor Oberst was known for posing nude on Instagram with Phoebe Bridgers’ guitar resting atop his bare dick, he was the leader of…
There are few bands with a discography as staggeringly great as the one Fugazi produced during their twelve year run. Ranking these albums is such…