While your Idolators do their best to cover every possible genre of music imaginable—hip-hop, indie, even the occasional Christian-rap jam—there's one form of music that's always made us shudder with disdain: Emo. "What are these dudes so miserable about?" we'd ask. "And why do their voices always sound like they just had their deviated septum pinched?" But because we're naive enough to believe that even the most potentially iffy music movement has its merits, we've asked Arye Dworken—a writer who blogs for both
Jane Magazine and his own
Bring Back Sincerity site—to guide us through this weepy minefield. His first report after the click-through:
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