The Emo Social Club Podcast

Is The Black Parade Still the Greatest Emo Album Ever Made?

Only one song can win the bracket, and we continue our competition to find the best MCR song with their largest and most popular record, The Black Parade. We look at the

Picking the Best Song from Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Only one song can win the bracket, and we continue our competition to find the best MCR song with their breakout record, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. We look at the ba

My Chemical Romance's Best Song Off Of "Bullets" Is...

Only one song can win the bracket, and we kick-off this competition to find the best MCR song with their first record, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.

Emo Isn't Dead: The History, DIY Ethos, and Future of the Emo Revival with Andrew Sacher

"Emo is not alive because the old bands are playing their old songs at When We Were Young Festival. That’s a cool thing, but it’s not dead because there have been two mor

Satanic Country Music Drama, Jack White, & The "Kia Asylum" Explained

"My temple is twinned, my icky is thumped, and my asylum is Kia." The hosts break down country artist Charley Crockett’s decision to drop the satanic doo-wop duo Twin Te

Fantano vs. Halsey, Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fest & The Death of Music News

"A lot of news is just discourse. And I'm like, that's not news... News is when a band announces like a tour. That's news."  A massive portion of what is presented as "m

Emo Social Club | Electric Callboy Pinkpop Controversy, MCR5 Rumors & Pop Goes Punk Covers

"Why do you keep going to the well hoping that you're going to find MCR-flavored water there? There's nothing there, man. MCR is not going to create anything they don't h

The Wrecks Live at Warped Tour | Emo Social Club

"When I'm writing...It's so detached. You can be wrong for an hour, and you can close your eyes and think for an hour, and it's for you to think of what's good. If I spen

Warped Tour DC 2026: Hoobastank, Super Sometimes, Deathbyromy & more

"I think that whole 'you don't belong in this festival'—that's a manufactured media thing by people on the outside. Because when you go backstage... everybody is just fuc

Review: Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls

"This record is objectively for people who were in high school between 2006 to 2008. You cannot avoid how f***ing good Martin Johnson is as a songwriter." This week, Bri

Warped Tour Rewind: 2025 Orlando Interviews

"It's not cool to be sad. Like, there needs to be light at the end of the tunnel. And at the end of the day, we get to play something like Warped Tour. So while we are un

Caleb Shomo Comes Out, BMTH Tour & Ozzy's AI

"It didn't feel like I'm watching a show or I'm watching these members play these songs. It felt like I was in a one and a half hour thrill ride."   Brian breaks down wh

Hawthorne Heights: Can 5 Songs Make Me a Fan?

That is JT Woodruff, the ultimate emo wife guy. In this episode of the Make Me a Fan series, Lizzie selects five tracks from Hawthorne Heights to prove to Brian that the

Review: Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

"I would argue that Sempiternal is their re-debut album. It pivoted to something that's a little bit more poppy for the mainstream general audience... it very much was a

Bike Routes: Meeting Springsteen & The 'Psyop' of Going Viral

"There's video evidence of me being like 16 years old playing to zero people in a coffee shop. So I'm like, trust me, the grind has been there forever."   David Osterhou

Bryce Vine on Travis Barker, Warped Tour & Pop-Punk Roots

"Teen angst doesn't go away just because you get older. I think as an adult, you have less and less ways to relieve that stress of everyday life."   Multi-platinum artis

Microwave: 10 Years of 'Much Love' & Crashing With Hot Mulligan

"It's been a slow burn. It's not like a commemoration of a time that we blew up... It's just an album that became more successful later on." Microwave sits down with Bri

LØLØ on Warped Tour, Fearless Records, and Women in Pop-Punk

"For me, it's just like I write the song so that I could get it off my chest, and I think it's the coolest thing in the world."     LØLØ stops by the club to discuss her

UnityTX: Legacy Nu-Metal & Escaping Octane-Core

We are the Popeye's chicken biscuit of the metal scene. People can't take us because they choke immediately. The first bite, they're already on the ground gagging... You

Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy & Emo Comics

"Listen. If 9/11 didn't happen, we wouldn't have My Chemical Romance. We wouldn't have Twilight. We wouldn't have this entire Tumblr core era of girly pop."   We took t