Editing Rock music (section)

===Post-hardcore and emo===
{{Main|Post-hardcore|Emo}}
{{See also|Screamo}}
Post-hardcore developed in the US, particularly in the Chicago and Washington, DC areas, in the early to mid-1980s, with bands that were inspired by the do-it-yourself ethics and guitar-heavy music of hardcore punk, but influenced by post-punk, adopting longer song formats, more complex musical structures and sometimes more melodic vocal styles.<ref name=AMPost-Hardcore>{{Citation|title=Post-hardcore |work=AllMusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/post-hardcore-d12962 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505171528/http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/post-hardcore-d12962 |archive-date=5 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Emo also emerged from the hardcore scene in 1980s Washington, D.C., initially as "emocore", used as a term to describe bands who favored expressive vocals over the more common abrasive, barking style.<ref name=AllMusicEmo>{{Citation|title=Emo |work=AllMusic |url={{AllMusic|class=explore|id=style/d4525|pure_url=yes}} |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5wWXsBzzX?url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/d4525 |archive-date=15 February 2011 |url-status=dead}}.</ref> The early emo scene operated as an underground, with short-lived bands releasing small-run vinyl records on tiny independent labels.<ref name=AllMusicEmo/> Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of [[Jimmy Eat World]]'s ''[[Bleed American]]'' (2001) and [[Dashboard Confessional]]'s ''[[The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most]]'' (2003).<ref name=DeRogatis2003>{{Citation|last=J. DeRogatis |title=True Confessional? |journal=Chicago Sun-Times |date=3 October 2003 |url=http://www.jimdero.com/News2003/Oct3LiveDashboard.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501150556/http://www.jimdero.com/News2003/Oct3LiveDashboard.htm |archive-date=1 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The new emo had a much more mainstream sound than in the 1990s and a far greater appeal among adolescents than its earlier incarnations.<ref name=DeRogatis2003/> At the same time, use of the term emo expanded beyond the musical genre, becoming associated with fashion, a hairstyle and any music that expressed emotion.<ref>{{Citation |last=H.A.S. Popkin |title=What exactly is 'emo,' anyway? |publisher=MSNBC |date=26 March 2006 |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/what-exactly-emo-anyway-wbna11720603 |access-date=10 November 2019 |archive-date=7 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807164925/http://www.today.com/popculture/what-exactly-emo-anyway-wbna11720603 |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2003 post-hardcore bands had also caught the attention of major labels and began to enjoy mainstream success in the album charts.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} A number of these bands were seen as a more aggressive offshoot of emo and given the often vague label of [[screamo]].<ref name=AMScreamo>{{Citation | title = Screamo | journal = AllMusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/screamo-d13459 | access-date = 25 May 2011 | archive-date = 21 March 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321210803/http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/screamo-d13459 | url-status = dead }}</ref>