Like most decades since the s, the s were a great decade for punk rock and its many offshoots. Some of the decade's best punk records were very visible on a large scale, and many of the others took a little more digging, but they were there. It was the decade of the "emo revival," the decade of anti-Trump punk, and the decade where indie rock was often just as inspired by pop punk and emo as it was by other indie rock. New bands tend to catch on when the members are in their late teens and early twenties, and that age group is the one who often discovered underground rock through bands like blink, Green Day, Weezer, and their peers, so it makes sense that you heard those bands' sounds resonating throughout the past ten years of underground rock. The artists on this list come from all across the punk spectrum, including bands that fall under punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, screamo, metalcore, pop punk, noise punk, garage punk, ska-punk, and more.

Top definition. Emo Punk. Emo Punk or Emo is Punk is a saying use to show others mostly those that hate Emo that Emo is a sub-genre of Punk music. Person one. Person two. Why are you saying that? To show others that Emo is Punk music.

Hardcore punk often abbreviated to hardcore is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. It was also inspired by New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism , the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock " [13] and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically-charged lyrics. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early s, particularly in Washington, D.

Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mids hardcore punk movement of Washington, D. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate.