Inside the Frolic Room in Hollywood, a small crowd of early drinkers leans up against the bar as an old Rolling Stones song blares overhead. It’s another hot day outside on the boulevard, but in here, ...

If the Austin City Limits Music Festival is a pop music state of the union, then it had to include emo. The oft-derided, mall-punk subgenre had a renaissance in 2025. By which I mean emo tangentially ...