As Millennials hit the age where classic rock channels now include their music, it’s no surprise that acts are striking while the nostalgia iron is hot. And what better way to recall your youth than through emo music, the genre best-equipped for obsessing about love and death and hope and all of life’s big questions?

2025 has been a big year for emo milestones — My Chemical Romance headlined a stadium tour! Rilo Kiley reunited! The Academy Is… announced a 20th anniversary “Almost Here” tour! — but it hasn’t yielded much new music from the genre’s A-list.

Luckily, there’s a new generation of pop punkers who were heavily influenced by the bands of yesteryear, and among the best is Michigan-based Hot Mulligan , whose ambitious fourth album “The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still” drop

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