A rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of post-hardcore from the hardcore punk movement in Washington, D.C., originally known as emocore.
Emo fashion has been associated with skinny jeans; tight t-shirts with band names; studded belts; and flat, straight, jet-black hair with long bangs. The emo subculture is stereotypically associated with the socially oppressed, sensitivity, misanthropy, introversion, and angst, as well as depression, self-harm, and suicide.
Emo uses the guitar dynamics that employ both the softness and loudness of punk rock music. Some emo leans toward progressive music with the genre’s use of complex guitar work, unorthodox song structures, and extreme dynamic shifts. Lyrics, a focus in emo music, are typically emotional, dealing with failed romance, self-loathing, pain, insecurity, suicidal thoughts, love, and relationships. 1984– .
An EMO concert was cancelled last due to winds When We Were Young headliners. Evidently Fremont Street played music as people wandered around.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/10/22/when-we-were-young-emo-music-festival-las-vegas-canceled/