The musical roots of emo lie in the 1980s US hardcore punk scene, when some bands pioneered a heart-on-sleeve subgenre known as "emo-core" or "emotional hardcore".

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Elsewhere in Jersey emo two-piece Dads recently released their proper debut album, American Radass (this is important).

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Two people have been arrested over an assault on an emo teenager - a week after police began recording attacks on subculture members as hate crimes.

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"Emo fans are mostly middle-class, often going through puberty, " he says.

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Even veteran music journalist David Quantick, who despises what he regards as the ostentatious breast-beating of emo, admits that he cannot bring himself to hate its adherents.

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Emos are sometimes seen as a younger off-shoot of the Goth scene, Hodkinson suggests, though emo also has connections to hardcore punk.

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The eMO won praise at North American International Auto Show for its roomy interior, swooping windshield and front-opening rear doors.

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