The Emo culture, in bands, started in the mid 80s, which was termed as subgenre of hardcore punk music. As the bands began to emerge and became more prominent, emocore carved its own identity. Emocore described as emotional hardcore music, a term used used to categorize the emotional performances of bands like the Rights of Spring, One Last Wish, Gray Matter, and Fire Party among others.
Dashboard Confessional
By the mid 90s, the emo wave had grown with its own fan following. Bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Far, and Texas Is the Reason popularized the indie rock touch to emocore. This wave died gradually towards the late 90s when many popular bands disbanded or shifted to other streams of music.
Death Cab for Cutie Concert
The emo wave resurfaced in the 2000s with some bands promoting it. Notably Chris Carrabba stood out in successfully projecting the growing emo scene. As the emo world grew and became associated with fashion trends, bands loosely associated with emo or displayed emotional performances came under the group of emo bands.
Patrick Wolf
Contrary to the past precedence of identifying emo bands that strictly followed emo culture, currently the emo band group has a vast variety and emo has become a rather loose identifier of genre music. Popular emo bands include the Panic at the Disco, Paramore, Matchbook Romance, Moss Icon, City of Caterpillar, Rites of Spring, Poison the Well, The Rocket Summer, Tomorrow's Last Hero, Senses Fail.
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Some of the Indie genre bands with emo appeal are Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Straylight Run, Cursive, Patrick Wolf, Beep Beep, North of America, The Driveway, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Elliott Smith, The Summer Obsession, The Scene Aesthetic.
