Emo bands

We track 66 Emo bands. 36 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Warped Tour Orlando and Welcome to Rockville. 35 have tour dates on sale, 217 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

35 Emo bands with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Emo bands on the bill, soonest first. The Emo festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1My Chemical Romance4Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera, with marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
  2. 2Pierce The Veil4San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Hot Mulligan10Midwest emo's chaotic favorites bring screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
  2. 2Pierce The Veil10San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
  3. 3Emery4'The Question'-era screamo-pop veterans who are still swinging, with dueling vocals and dynamic whiplash from one of the scene's smartest bands.
  4. 4Joyce Manor4Southern California's most efficient punk band has two-minute songs, enormous hooks, and sets that are over before you've settled in.
  5. 5My Chemical Romance4Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera, with marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
  6. 6Taking Back Sunday4Long Island emo royalty: mic-swinging catharsis, twenty-plus years deep, 'MakeDamnSure' still a communal throat-shred, and yes, the mic still swings.
  7. 7The Used4Bert McCracken's scream-to-croon whiplash defined a corner of early-2000s post-hardcore and still detonates live, and the chaos has aged into craft.
  8. 8Algernon Cadwallader3Beloved and long-dormant Philly emo pioneers back from reunion with noodly twinkling guitars, yelped vocals, and pure basement-show joy that a whole generation of Midwest-emo revivalists learned from.
  9. 9Bayside3Queens punk with a morbid streak and lead guitar lines that owe more to metal than emo, a craftsmanship that turned a scene band into a twenty-year institution.
  10. 10Ben Quad3Fifth-wave emo at its most frantic, with tapped riffs and throat-shredding payoffs in equal measure, from a band that treats catharsis as a competitive sport.

Most saved to a plan

The Emo bands people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1The UsedBert McCracken's scream-to-croon whiplash defined a corner of early-2000s post-hardcore and still detonates live, and the chaos has aged into craft.
  2. 2Hawthorne HeightsOhio emo survivors whose mid-2000s records are still the reference point for the whole scream-over-the-chorus template, played now with veterans' gratitude.
  3. 3Jimmy Eat WorldThe emo band that became a permanent radio fixture, with enormous choruses delivered with total earnestness, decade after decade without a dip.
  4. 4Taking Back SundayLong Island emo royalty: mic-swinging catharsis, twenty-plus years deep, 'MakeDamnSure' still a communal throat-shred, and yes, the mic still swings.
  5. 5Motion City SoundtrackMoog-powered anxiety anthems, where 'Commit This to Memory' remains scripture and 'Everything Is Alright' remains a group confession.
  6. 6The Starting LineEarly-2000s pop-punk with more craft than the era gave it credit for, and 'The Best of Me' is aging like a yearbook photo you actually like.
  7. 7BaysideQueens punk with a morbid streak and lead guitar lines that owe more to metal than emo, a craftsmanship that turned a scene band into a twenty-year institution.
  8. 8Algernon CadwalladerBeloved and long-dormant Philly emo pioneers back from reunion with noodly twinkling guitars, yelped vocals, and pure basement-show joy that a whole generation of Midwest-emo revivalists learned from.
  9. 9Hot MulliganMidwest emo's chaotic favorites bring screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
  10. 10SilversteinCanadian post-hardcore that outlasted the scene it came from by simply never getting worse, and 'My Heroine' is still a full-crowd scream.

All 66 Emo bands

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

Hot MulliganPierce The Veil

EmeryJoyce ManorMy Chemical RomanceSilversteinTaking Back SundayThe UsedAlgernon CadwalladerBaysideBen QuadFree ThrowHawthorne HeightsMayday ParadeMotion City SoundtrackSenses FailThe Wonder YearsThursday

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