The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die at Swerp Mansion Credit: J. Matthew Nix When the eight-piece band came through Chicago in July, they played an alcohol- and drug-free ...

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Fathers, hide your daughters: Emo Week is upon us. Through some strange confluence of events (Mayan prophecy?), Nashville will be besieged by emo band after emo band, come for our star tattoos, ...

Much of the best indie and punk music coming out of Milwaukee right now owes a meaningful debt to emo. Here are seven bands that keep the city's... It's amazing how one band can shape an entire ...