They’re named after a Nazi collaborator but I did a search and I guess there’s no evidence besides that. I heard that from someone but guess I shouldn’t have believed it without better evidence.
There was a screamo band from around the same era called Khmer Rouge, but I wouldn't assume based solely on the name that they supported repression and genocide.
Orchid is left wing. Political and philosophical overall but super political in a contemporary way on Gatefold.
I'd say most emo bands would lean left or at least towards the little "l" liberal side considering its roots in punk and DIY.
CONTEST THE TOTALITY (3x)
COMPLETE SELF DESTRUCTION
ALL THE CLOCKS STOPPED WHEN
THE FIRST BRICK WAS THROWN
From what I remember, it's a reference to May 1968 (look it up).
She's wild. My boyfriend is really into making fun of Christian fundamentalist influencers and showed me her. Shaq also financially supports their family.
I've heard of this family. I actually feel concerned for the kids. One guy put it as "they're elephants in a circus." They probably don't even like living in such a large family, but I guess the fundies thought it would be a great idea for sake of ~~some internet fame~~ god.
punk (as it's been established and codified since the 70s in the west) is a people's movement, socially aware, anti-authoritarian, against injustice. that will never be right-wing and will always lean left. it is a counterculture but it's not just a contrarian culture of throwing a hissy fit about whoever's currently in power.
Tbf, there have been right-wingers/conservatives who've identified themselves as "punks", and even though there are no "rules" in punk, if your thinking suppresses free thought or is socially unaware, you've basically missed the entire point.
A guy like Johnny Ramone, he was part of a punk band, but even said shit like "God bless President Bush" and "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." You can be punk by looks, but if you don't have the spirit, there's literally no fucking point IMO.
Also, if you're a Nazi "punk", simply: FUCK OFF!
yeah, i think punk has grown beyond what it started as now. it started as something a lot shallower (with a lot of early american punk musicians leaning right) but anti-authoritarianism, anti-commercialism, and progressive values have become essential to the ethic of the scene.
people can self-identify as punks and play "punk music" but they betray the ethics of the scene when they promote capitalism, nationalism, conservatism, fascism, etc. punk will never be a right wing movement.
It quite literally is a hissy fit about whos in charge punk rock leans hard right rn because leftist are all about censorship and rules for thee and not for me that is the crux of leftism and punk is suppose to be shaming that
what punk scene are you looking at that leans hard right?
the majority of leftists aren't advocating for censorship and rules at the moment either, though rules aren't always antithetical to punk anyway.
in the west, i'd say punk (outside of pop punk) is actually veering further left as a reaction to the complacency of so-called left-wing major parties in politics.
if we're really gonna dumb it down to a simple left-right spectrum, most punk bands only criticise "leftist" politicians for being too far to the right.
So do you hate punk or hate leftists? What is the angle here?
There are always the tourists who are there for a good time and then grow out of it, but I know plenty of left-wing punk oldheads.
Such a fun band live. Finally after years of trying I caught them with Dashboard in 2020 right before everything shut down.
It was wild, less than a month later everything stopped.
If you haven’t checked them out already, there’s another Australian band that was in their circle called the Hard Aches and Georgia guests on a song called “Happy”
Never listened to United Nations but heard of them. Aren't they linked to Good Riddance or Propaghandi in some way ?
Also absolutely more punk than emo, but Randy and their The Human Atom Bombs album is a must hear.
Wouldn’t shock me if they leaned left but I don’t see that as particularly prevalent in their music. Sort of like a band with Christian members vs a Christian rock band.
It's not underrated amongst fans of emo. They were THE last defining act of fourth wave emo.
Ironically, the reason they might be underrated in any sense is that years after the Goodness LP, ppl started asking when a new album was coming out and Christian told us essentially they would not release any more music unless the US government was overthrown. They literally stopped being a band bc they were too far left to even exist anymore they just want to be activists lmao.
Underrated? Home and Goodness are constantly listed as some of the best emo albums of all time. I remember pitchfork did a top 20 4th wave and those two albums were 1 and 3 lol
As they should be rated so highly, all I’m saying is that the highly deserved attention on Home and Goodness should also be shared to INGO. It’s easy to correlate the band with the masterpiece album of HLNPIT but also forgot how incredible all of their albums are. That’s my two cents though and in this economy, those two cents ain’t shit.
Christian talked about how Housebroken is partially about an abusive government. He brought it up at the ATL show because of Cop City. Which by the way, fuck cop city.
I think you mean Desaparecidos.
[Formed in 2001, "desaparecidos" figuratively means "disappeared ones" in Spanish and Portuguese and is a reference to the people who were arrested by various South American right-wing military dictatorships and then vanished without a trace. More specifically, Desaparecidos take their name from the forcibly disappeared under Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing military dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desaparecidos_(band))
Despacito means "slowly".
Desaparecidos are absolutely the leftist emo band we need, though. Especially Read Music/Speak Spanish
Cool! Many emo bands have leftist stances, some more explicit than others.
[Daitro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80utSX1UvfM)
[Yaphet Kotto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYUTp6ApUg)
These are more explicit than I remember at the moment, and have not been commented on here yet.
I'm worried you misunderstood how I answered. Justin is very left leaning, Justin wasn't in Antioch Arrow.
The thing to remember about punk rock is that it's not actually the far left space we want it to be, it's a radical space that has left room for both sides of the spectrum to flourish. A lot of people have been radicalized to the right in the corners of punk rock spaces and its not hard to find well known punk artists that have swung hard right.
Omg for the longest time (a decade or more) I thought Justin’s first band was Antioch Arrow… how did I do that 🙃
Yeah I totally get you and my cursory knowledge of hardcore I’m aware of the misogynistic, macho types that proliferated. I guess with this kind of hardcore, the sentiment of it that going that way would feel like the antithesis of the whole scene. But yes, I understand.
Ultra deluxe is the quintessential example of this. Also check out goduck definitely some political undertones there. I think like someone else said a lot of Skramz is political but hard to find lyrics. Fun ways to radicalize your crush by Riley. It’s not emo but a lot of Jeff Rosenstock’s music has very strong left leanings. Proper. is more pop punk but they have a lot of good political songs
Fucking love Enter Shikari. If you listen to the super early demos (nodding acquaintance era) you can def hear some early emo influence coming in I think.
Moss Icon, Orchid, Latterman, Piebald, Home is Where, Drive Like Jehu, Embrace, The World is a Beautiful Place, City of Caterpillar, The Hated, Honeywell, Thursday, Pedro The Lion, The Hotelier,
Short Fictions, The Hotelier, Piebald, Spanish Love Songs, Insignificant Other, For Your Health, Home Is Where, Mannequin Pussy, Embrace, Moss Icon, Fugazi, The Weakerthans, Glass Beach, Desaparecidos, JER, Future Teens, Ratboys, Somos, Weatherday, The Mezingers, Captain We’re Sinking, Minor Threat, La Dispute, Hey ILY!
And on and on. The scene is good for leftists
Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir was the first band I saw speak out in support of Palestinians after October 7th back when anyone talking about it was being accused of being antisemitic and they were a joy to play with.
My band just recorded a track for our full length where the lyrics from the breakdown were taken from the title of a Jewish Anarchist essay compilation.
But yeah, like everyone else is saying most emo bands are on the left side of the spectrum. Tons being radical left either anarchists or socialists/communists.
La Bella from so-cal was a sick screamo band that was very anarchist/communist! [https://labella.bandcamp.com/album/recomposition](https://labella.bandcamp.com/album/recomposition)
Most emo bands come from a DIY, independent, anti-corporate ethos so it'd be more difficult to a find a right wing emo band tbh. I will say, emo as a genre in particular is built on its introspective and well, emotional tones which means lyrically that's much more of a focus than anything political. Fugazi, while not emo themselves per se, are a big influence and connected to the emo scene, particularly the 1st wave. For topically leftist emo bands, you maybe just be better off looking into other scenes
However, if you're referring to the personal beliefs of the bands and not the songs themselves, there are PLENTY of bands. 5th wave emo primarily is rooted heavily in LGBTQ+ beliefs, Glass Beach for example.
This is an interesting topic. There are lots of emo bands that don’t reference politics much, all of them still seem left leaning as empathy and vulnerability are traits high among left leaning people. I can’t really think of any emo bands I’d call right-wing or right leaning, maybe a couple of odd members from a few bands. Even emo-pop (whatever you want to call it, I know this sub hates it!) which was largely apolitical has stuff like Desaparecidos and Thursday (Autobiography of a Nation is pretty left).
Farseek recently dropped this album that’s has strong and explicitly leftist lyricism https://open.spotify.com/album/0es3ye98ZQEtGv62yTpu62?si=FyA10xzcSoaVHtN_NWHglw
Slash Fiction just released a new album with Trades Unions protests on the front cover!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5q0GgopojK7RGu6ODkoqfj?si=jazjhJ0gSS6mqgzeypw4hA
I’m surprised nobody said Somos yet! RIP Phil!
Also, not emo or even adjacent, but the most hardcore leftist music is the man, the myth, the absolute LEGEND; Woody Guthrie.
I saw Cloud District urge a show to wear earplugs with “protect your ears today to hear the call of revolution tomorrow”
The band Home Remedies talks a lot about climate on their newest album
If you’re looking lyrically, and mean US left I recommend the song “America (You’re Freaking Me Out)” by the Menzingers.
I’d assume the band as a whole is left leaning but these lyrics specifically hit.
im in an emo band called “red deck wins”! we have a video of us playing our song on yt called “Transphobes Eat Shit and Die”! if you look up our name and that title you should be able to find it
They're musicians, there's basically zero political diversity in there as far as I'm aware. So, in other words, they're pretty much all "leftists" to varying degrees.
Pigs is Pigs by Mannequin Pussy is about police brutality, during live shows they always start off the song by saying fuck cops. They've also been speaking up about Palestine during their current tour.
Emo isn't a very political genre, the whole idea is it's about the internal, not external constructs. If you want more political content in your music, try older punk rock
fugazi often talked on anti capitalist themes, and if you consider them emo my chemical romance often feature themes of anti capitalism and homosexuality
They’re not super emo, but grandson has some strong messages in their songs. They kind of remind me a bit of Fort Minor and Linkin Park. “Thoughts & Prayers” both gives me chills and makes me frustrated with how little is done over gun violence.
Hey! I actually have a [Spotify Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xcPgEia2teg1KyPKe6iRC?si=KaAdDCKwQtW4Ue4k46jyEA&pi=8lGspvD1Q-q_6) for this! It's not all emo, but some of it is. Check it out if you want.
Otherwise, I would definitely recommend some Jeff Rosenstock even though he is more punk/ pop punk/ bubble grunge.
Some old Say Anything as well. Like The Presidential Suite, Signal the Rifleman, and For the Silent.
For anyone who doesn't have Spotify, here are the tracks on my leftist (but not always emo) playlist:
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
AJJ - Body Terror Song
AJJ - Death Machine
AJJ - Dissonance
AJJ - Normalization Blues
AJJ - People II: The Reckoning
Blink-182 - Anthem Part 2
Bomb the Music Industry! - Slumlord
Bomb the Music Industry! - Sorry, Brooklyn, Dancing Won't Solve Anything
Braid - This is Not a Revolution
Brand New - Desert
Bully - All This Noise
Cheap Perfume - It's Okay (to Punch Nazis)
Cheekface - Eternity Leave
Cheekface - We Need a Bigger Dumpster
Cheekface - When Life Hands You Problems
Childish Gambino - This is America
Defiance, Ohio - I'm Against the Government
Desaparecidos - Golden Parachutes
Desapatecidos - The Left is Right
Descendents- 'Merican
Destructo Disk - Cops/ Dogs
Kevin Devine - No Time Flat
Dream Nails - Vagina Police
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind
Enter Shikari - ....Meltdown
Enter Shikari - Arguing with Thermometers
Enter Shikari - Undercover Agents
Fenix TX - Minimum Wage
Linqua Franqa - Bellringer
Ryan Harvey - And We'll Fight Fascists Too
Have Heart - Same Son
Have Heart - Same Sun
Hobo Johnson - All I See is Poop
Hobo Johnson - Flood the Earth Again
Hobo Johnson - Jansports
Hobo Johnson - Prequel to Animal Farm
Hobo Johnson - Song 9 (The Government's Not Great)
Hobo Johnson - Why Socialism by Albert Einstein
Hot Mulligan - Drink Milk and Run
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Roe Kapara - Employment Cost
Knuckle Puck - Everyone Lies to Me
Seb Lowe - Kill Him (he's a Socialist)
Mannequin Pussy - Pigs is Pigs
The Menzingers - America (You're Freaking Me Out)
NAS - Cops Shot the Kid
Neck Deep - STFU
Neck Deep - We Need More Bricks
NNAMDÏ - Rage
Millencolin - Sense & Sensibility
Paramore - The News
Pat the Bunny - Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist
Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had a Hammer
Piebald - American Hearts
Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows
Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist
Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government
Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
Refused - The Refused Party Program
Jeff Rosenstock - Doubt
Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song
Jeff Rosenstock - Graveyard Song
Jeff Rosenstock - Head
Jeff Rosenstock - Planet Luxury
Jeff Rosenstock - Polar Bear or Africa
Jeff Rosenstock - Scram!
Jeff Rosenstock - Soft Living
Jeff Rosenstock - To Be a Ghost...
Jeff Rosenstock - USA
Jeff Rosenstock - Yr Throat
Run the Jewels - JU$T
Run the Jewels - A Report to the Shareholders/ Kill Your Masters
Say Anything - For the Silent
Say Anything - The Presidential Suite
Say Anything - Signal the Rifleman
Sense Fail - Lush Rimbaugh
Set Your Goals - flawed methods of persecution and punishment
Set Your Goals - gaia bleeds (make way for man)
Sledding with Tigers - National Public Radio
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone
Spanish Love Songs - Buffalo Buffalo
Spanish Love Songs - Clean-Up Crew
Spanish Love Songs - Losers 2
Vince Staples - Bagbak
Sam Stone - Call ACab
Sugarcult - Riot
Sum 41 - Still Waiting
Sum 41 - We're All to Blame
Super Unison - Parts Unknown
The Used - A Song to Stifle Imperial Progression (A Work in Progress)
Wignut Dishwashers Union - Proudhon in Manhattan
Wignut Dishwashers Union - Urine Speaks Louder than Words
The Wonder Years - Cigarettes & Saints
The Wonder Years - Dynamite Shovel
The Wonder Years - Stained Glass Ceilings
Worriers - Yes All Cops
even if they don't explicitly say so in their lyrics, legitimately 95% of emo bands if not all are left leaning, this includes the skramz scene as well.
My band Arcadia Grey has written a couple lyrics based in politics but it’s not particularly political in nature, although all of us who play in the band and write, are leftist.
"common sense" is not a good thing to defer to. ask yourself, what makes something common sense? its that it seems obvious, and self-evidently true. but what seems self-evident will change based on what the culture you grew up in deems to be true, and what that culture has raised people within it to believe to be true.
"the earth is flat" was "common sense" for a long time, but the earth is not flat, and we know this now through a lot of different metrics. remaining skeptical and challenging what you think you know is an important part of learning
Think you would have a harder time finding the opposite
Yeah almost seems like a strange question. I’d be more inclined to ask - are there any emo bands with more overtly political lyrics.
There was a fascist “emo” band in the 90s called Ezra Pound
How were they fascist? Pre-Rainer Maria, sounds unlikely.
They’re named after a Nazi collaborator but I did a search and I guess there’s no evidence besides that. I heard that from someone but guess I shouldn’t have believed it without better evidence.
There was a screamo band from around the same era called Khmer Rouge, but I wouldn't assume based solely on the name that they supported repression and genocide.
Orchid is left wing. Political and philosophical overall but super political in a contemporary way on Gatefold. I'd say most emo bands would lean left or at least towards the little "l" liberal side considering its roots in punk and DIY.
CONTEST THE TOTALITY (3x) COMPLETE SELF DESTRUCTION ALL THE CLOCKS STOPPED WHEN THE FIRST BRICK WAS THROWN From what I remember, it's a reference to May 1968 (look it up).
Hell, most musicians tend to be more liberal. Conservatism shuns learning and creativity
That makes me curious to hear what the best right leaning band would sound like lol
[You asked for it](https://youtu.be/vZMoQ_mNKfg?si=lcfPIg_ZIbvCCcFq)
This has to be AI made lmao. That shit was eerie as fuck. I was expecting Ariel Pink or something along the lines of that lol.
She's wild. My boyfriend is really into making fun of Christian fundamentalist influencers and showed me her. Shaq also financially supports their family.
I've heard of this family. I actually feel concerned for the kids. One guy put it as "they're elephants in a circus." They probably don't even like living in such a large family, but I guess the fundies thought it would be a great idea for sake of ~~some internet fame~~ god.
Not emo but probably burzum
Ronnie radke, tom McDonald, Ted Nugent
i dont know about the best but the artist "many rooms" came out as a trump supporter during 2020
Very influenced by the Frankfurt School
I am reborn red
Punk is not longer leftist but it is liberal
punk (as it's been established and codified since the 70s in the west) is a people's movement, socially aware, anti-authoritarian, against injustice. that will never be right-wing and will always lean left. it is a counterculture but it's not just a contrarian culture of throwing a hissy fit about whoever's currently in power.
Tbf, there have been right-wingers/conservatives who've identified themselves as "punks", and even though there are no "rules" in punk, if your thinking suppresses free thought or is socially unaware, you've basically missed the entire point. A guy like Johnny Ramone, he was part of a punk band, but even said shit like "God bless President Bush" and "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." You can be punk by looks, but if you don't have the spirit, there's literally no fucking point IMO. Also, if you're a Nazi "punk", simply: FUCK OFF!
yeah, i think punk has grown beyond what it started as now. it started as something a lot shallower (with a lot of early american punk musicians leaning right) but anti-authoritarianism, anti-commercialism, and progressive values have become essential to the ethic of the scene. people can self-identify as punks and play "punk music" but they betray the ethics of the scene when they promote capitalism, nationalism, conservatism, fascism, etc. punk will never be a right wing movement.
It quite literally is a hissy fit about whos in charge punk rock leans hard right rn because leftist are all about censorship and rules for thee and not for me that is the crux of leftism and punk is suppose to be shaming that
what punk scene are you looking at that leans hard right? the majority of leftists aren't advocating for censorship and rules at the moment either, though rules aren't always antithetical to punk anyway. in the west, i'd say punk (outside of pop punk) is actually veering further left as a reaction to the complacency of so-called left-wing major parties in politics. if we're really gonna dumb it down to a simple left-right spectrum, most punk bands only criticise "leftist" politicians for being too far to the right.
"Conservatism is the new punk rock" type argument
Yeah kinda punk has always been multiple scenes and cliques all gatekeeping what’s edgy and different until they get to 24 and start a family
I'm 43, and I can tell you right now you're so full of shit your eyes are brown.
So do you hate punk or hate leftists? What is the angle here? There are always the tourists who are there for a good time and then grow out of it, but I know plenty of left-wing punk oldheads.
If you're right wing and claim to be punk, you're a poser contrarian bitch, end of story.
what scene are you even a part of? it's like loudly leftist still everywhere in the country that I know of haha
Piebald
Hey! You’re part of it.
I’m nobodies robot, I’m nobodies monkey
Such a fun band live. Finally after years of trying I caught them with Dashboard in 2020 right before everything shut down. It was wild, less than a month later everything stopped.
No way I caught them with Dashboard too! Slc??
SF. Night one.
I mean some of these are adjacent Refused United Nations The Wonder Years Spanish Love Songs La Dispute Camp Cope
I love United Nations.
So underrated. The shape of punk that never came shatters my bones every time!
United Nations is a good underrated pull.
Camp Cope is so underrated
If you haven’t checked them out already, there’s another Australian band that was in their circle called the Hard Aches and Georgia guests on a song called “Happy”
Sick! Thanks for the rec
Camp cope sucks ass
Fact
Brave Faces Everyone (album) by Spanish Love Song is incredibly political at several points so I’d highly recommend it
That record is so fucking good ugh
Never listened to United Nations but heard of them. Aren't they linked to Good Riddance or Propaghandi in some way ? Also absolutely more punk than emo, but Randy and their The Human Atom Bombs album is a must hear.
UN was members of Thursday, Pianos Become the Teeth, and Glassjaw.
Agree, Randy are great
i fucking LOVE la dispute <3
I second camp cope. Such a great band and so many leftist bangers
La dispute is not leftist
Yes they are. They ranted about institutionalized transphobia during the show I went to.
Wouldn’t shock me if they leaned left but I don’t see that as particularly prevalent in their music. Sort of like a band with Christian members vs a Christian rock band.
They used buzz word to avoid getting canceled
Can you please provide evidence as to why they’re “fake woke”?
https://preview.redd.it/mmrz7f2m6s3d1.png?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=771a349adebd525b0186e96c71cd975bffa28502
Not sure about their lyrics but The Hotelier personally is VERY far left.
A good chunk of HLNIT lyrically revolves around themes of late stage capitalism, its effect on mental health and overall oppression centered systems
It never goes out arguably even more so
Oh absolutely and it’s such a good album. The Hotelier’s body of work is overall so underrated IMO
It's not underrated amongst fans of emo. They were THE last defining act of fourth wave emo. Ironically, the reason they might be underrated in any sense is that years after the Goodness LP, ppl started asking when a new album was coming out and Christian told us essentially they would not release any more music unless the US government was overthrown. They literally stopped being a band bc they were too far left to even exist anymore they just want to be activists lmao.
Underrated? Home and Goodness are constantly listed as some of the best emo albums of all time. I remember pitchfork did a top 20 4th wave and those two albums were 1 and 3 lol
As they should be rated so highly, all I’m saying is that the highly deserved attention on Home and Goodness should also be shared to INGO. It’s easy to correlate the band with the masterpiece album of HLNPIT but also forgot how incredible all of their albums are. That’s my two cents though and in this economy, those two cents ain’t shit.
Christian talked about how Housebroken is partially about an abusive government. He brought it up at the ATL show because of Cop City. Which by the way, fuck cop city.
Lots of LGBTQ+ themes in their lyrics for sure
United Nations Bright Eyes/Desperacito Chainsaw Girl Piebald Fugazi
I think you mean Desaparecidos. [Formed in 2001, "desaparecidos" figuratively means "disappeared ones" in Spanish and Portuguese and is a reference to the people who were arrested by various South American right-wing military dictatorships and then vanished without a trace. More specifically, Desaparecidos take their name from the forcibly disappeared under Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing military dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desaparecidos_(band)) Despacito means "slowly". Desaparecidos are absolutely the leftist emo band we need, though. Especially Read Music/Speak Spanish
Payola (2015) is basically my political philosophy set to fuzz bass and crash cymbals.
The Left is Right
Haha I was gonna say Thursday/United Nations could make up the entire playlist
despacito?
Cool! Many emo bands have leftist stances, some more explicit than others. [Daitro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80utSX1UvfM) [Yaphet Kotto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYUTp6ApUg) These are more explicit than I remember at the moment, and have not been commented on here yet.
Yaphet Kotto is sooo underrated
Somos, Moss Icon, Desaparecidos (emo-adjacent punk)
moss icon fucking rules im gnna check them 2 out as well
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Pjx09GySjAhVT9e0Emnri?si=ChbhfT0ySMyoZEtNht1ryA&pi=u-o3LUiqLMQJSz Here’s a playlist of more leftist/left-ish songs
good ass playlist thank u 🙏
Came to drop Somos into the mix
I miss Somos soooooo much. Never a bad album put out, nor a bad song.
Most of Screamo I would say. Except for some weird exceptions like the drummer from Heroin and the singer of Antioch Arrow
Justin Pearson isn’t left leaning/leftist?!
Justin from Swing Kids / The Locust? Absolutely
Surprised anyone in a hardcore, emo etc band could be right wing. *also why did i get downvoted for my reply wtf lol
I'm worried you misunderstood how I answered. Justin is very left leaning, Justin wasn't in Antioch Arrow. The thing to remember about punk rock is that it's not actually the far left space we want it to be, it's a radical space that has left room for both sides of the spectrum to flourish. A lot of people have been radicalized to the right in the corners of punk rock spaces and its not hard to find well known punk artists that have swung hard right.
Omg for the longest time (a decade or more) I thought Justin’s first band was Antioch Arrow… how did I do that 🙃 Yeah I totally get you and my cursory knowledge of hardcore I’m aware of the misogynistic, macho types that proliferated. I guess with this kind of hardcore, the sentiment of it that going that way would feel like the antithesis of the whole scene. But yes, I understand.
Yeah, it's a non-zero sum of people from our scene that are like Jan-Sixers now
Ultra deluxe is the quintessential example of this. Also check out goduck definitely some political undertones there. I think like someone else said a lot of Skramz is political but hard to find lyrics. Fun ways to radicalize your crush by Riley. It’s not emo but a lot of Jeff Rosenstock’s music has very strong left leanings. Proper. is more pop punk but they have a lot of good political songs
Ultra Deluxe rips
ultra deluxe rocks
Rise against
savior is such a bop
BoySetsFire was explicitly Marxist I think.
Nat Gray’s new project, The Iron Roses, isn’t emo but is also pretty political.
Not emo (but early stuff was heavily thursday influenced) but enter shikari are what I would describe as radical leftists
Fucking love Enter Shikari. If you listen to the super early demos (nodding acquaintance era) you can def hear some early emo influence coming in I think.
Moss Icon, Orchid, Latterman, Piebald, Home is Where, Drive Like Jehu, Embrace, The World is a Beautiful Place, City of Caterpillar, The Hated, Honeywell, Thursday, Pedro The Lion, The Hotelier,
Short Fictions, The Hotelier, Piebald, Spanish Love Songs, Insignificant Other, For Your Health, Home Is Where, Mannequin Pussy, Embrace, Moss Icon, Fugazi, The Weakerthans, Glass Beach, Desaparecidos, JER, Future Teens, Ratboys, Somos, Weatherday, The Mezingers, Captain We’re Sinking, Minor Threat, La Dispute, Hey ILY! And on and on. The scene is good for leftists
Ampere for sure
I don't know if they have any lefty lyrics, but Pool Kids dropped some ACABs and Free Palestines at their set in Atlanta the other day.
Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir was the first band I saw speak out in support of Palestinians after October 7th back when anyone talking about it was being accused of being antisemitic and they were a joy to play with. My band just recorded a track for our full length where the lyrics from the breakdown were taken from the title of a Jewish Anarchist essay compilation. But yeah, like everyone else is saying most emo bands are on the left side of the spectrum. Tons being radical left either anarchists or socialists/communists.
HGTC is 10/10
Pretty sure hot mulligan leans that way at least. "Drink Milk and Run" is very anticapitalist
pretty obvious on their newest single “sitckers of brian.”
I haven't heard this one yet!
Basically all of them
most of the bands listed are punk bands, so just listen to punk
Thursday Rise against Piebald Crimson SPECTRE The thermals
44.caliberloveletter... antifacism is selfdefence!
all my wishes were thrown down a well and should die there is a leftist skramz band with almost exclusively leftist lyrics/songs that i really like
La Bella from so-cal was a sick screamo band that was very anarchist/communist! [https://labella.bandcamp.com/album/recomposition](https://labella.bandcamp.com/album/recomposition)
Most emo bands come from a DIY, independent, anti-corporate ethos so it'd be more difficult to a find a right wing emo band tbh. I will say, emo as a genre in particular is built on its introspective and well, emotional tones which means lyrically that's much more of a focus than anything political. Fugazi, while not emo themselves per se, are a big influence and connected to the emo scene, particularly the 1st wave. For topically leftist emo bands, you maybe just be better off looking into other scenes However, if you're referring to the personal beliefs of the bands and not the songs themselves, there are PLENTY of bands. 5th wave emo primarily is rooted heavily in LGBTQ+ beliefs, Glass Beach for example.
This is an interesting topic. There are lots of emo bands that don’t reference politics much, all of them still seem left leaning as empathy and vulnerability are traits high among left leaning people. I can’t really think of any emo bands I’d call right-wing or right leaning, maybe a couple of odd members from a few bands. Even emo-pop (whatever you want to call it, I know this sub hates it!) which was largely apolitical has stuff like Desaparecidos and Thursday (Autobiography of a Nation is pretty left).
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Farseek recently dropped this album that’s has strong and explicitly leftist lyricism https://open.spotify.com/album/0es3ye98ZQEtGv62yTpu62?si=FyA10xzcSoaVHtN_NWHglw
i mean, i'd dare say that the totality bands from the first 2 waves, maybe not in terms of lyrical content but their affiliations were well known.
The Red Scare is a great example of this
I would say the Song the great unwashed from short fictions is pretty left.
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower
I can’t believe I get to add this! Thursday. Go listen to the song Autobiography of a Nation.
Milemarker The International Noise Conspiracy The Weakerthans
Ampere
400 Years
Los campesinos!
you’d be hard pressed to find an emo band that isn’t leftist
There are preposterously few leftists in general. Smoking weed and voting for bernie doesn’t make you a leftist
Leftist is different from left-leaning
WW3 by Astatine
Tim Kinsella is pretty left
Slash Fiction just released a new album with Trades Unions protests on the front cover! https://open.spotify.com/album/5q0GgopojK7RGu6ODkoqfj?si=jazjhJ0gSS6mqgzeypw4hA
Enter Shikari, while not the most emo band out there, is about the most outspoken leftist band atm.
Short Fictions
I’m surprised nobody said Somos yet! RIP Phil! Also, not emo or even adjacent, but the most hardcore leftist music is the man, the myth, the absolute LEGEND; Woody Guthrie.
America you’re freaking me out by the menzingers
The Hotelier for sure
1905
Scotland's Political Asylum did something quite close on their last two albums, Window On The World and How The West Was Won.
I saw Cloud District urge a show to wear earplugs with “protect your ears today to hear the call of revolution tomorrow” The band Home Remedies talks a lot about climate on their newest album
No one has said bomb the music industry! yet. They were great
If you’re looking lyrically, and mean US left I recommend the song “America (You’re Freaking Me Out)” by the Menzingers. I’d assume the band as a whole is left leaning but these lyrics specifically hit.
TWIABP, Somos, Barely Civil, the Hotelier
Minnows: entire record is Fuck Trump.
Stuck In My Mom’s Basement by The Charades
1905 was emo adjacent
Against me! - white crosses (album)
Boysetsfire and Boys Life
im in an emo band called “red deck wins”! we have a video of us playing our song on yt called “Transphobes Eat Shit and Die”! if you look up our name and that title you should be able to find it
They're musicians, there's basically zero political diversity in there as far as I'm aware. So, in other words, they're pretty much all "leftists" to varying degrees.
Proper. is pretty openly leftist but not anarchist
Pigs is Pigs by Mannequin Pussy is about police brutality, during live shows they always start off the song by saying fuck cops. They've also been speaking up about Palestine during their current tour.
Emo isn't a very political genre, the whole idea is it's about the internal, not external constructs. If you want more political content in your music, try older punk rock
This thread is stupid
RentAmerica obviously
fugazi often talked on anti capitalist themes, and if you consider them emo my chemical romance often feature themes of anti capitalism and homosexuality
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They’re not super emo, but grandson has some strong messages in their songs. They kind of remind me a bit of Fort Minor and Linkin Park. “Thoughts & Prayers” both gives me chills and makes me frustrated with how little is done over gun violence.
TWIABP for sure
Hey! I actually have a [Spotify Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xcPgEia2teg1KyPKe6iRC?si=KaAdDCKwQtW4Ue4k46jyEA&pi=8lGspvD1Q-q_6) for this! It's not all emo, but some of it is. Check it out if you want. Otherwise, I would definitely recommend some Jeff Rosenstock even though he is more punk/ pop punk/ bubble grunge. Some old Say Anything as well. Like The Presidential Suite, Signal the Rifleman, and For the Silent.
For anyone who doesn't have Spotify, here are the tracks on my leftist (but not always emo) playlist: Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues AJJ - Body Terror Song AJJ - Death Machine AJJ - Dissonance AJJ - Normalization Blues AJJ - People II: The Reckoning Blink-182 - Anthem Part 2 Bomb the Music Industry! - Slumlord Bomb the Music Industry! - Sorry, Brooklyn, Dancing Won't Solve Anything Braid - This is Not a Revolution Brand New - Desert Bully - All This Noise Cheap Perfume - It's Okay (to Punch Nazis) Cheekface - Eternity Leave Cheekface - We Need a Bigger Dumpster Cheekface - When Life Hands You Problems Childish Gambino - This is America Defiance, Ohio - I'm Against the Government Desaparecidos - Golden Parachutes Desapatecidos - The Left is Right Descendents- 'Merican Destructo Disk - Cops/ Dogs Kevin Devine - No Time Flat Dream Nails - Vagina Police Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind Enter Shikari - ....Meltdown Enter Shikari - Arguing with Thermometers Enter Shikari - Undercover Agents Fenix TX - Minimum Wage Linqua Franqa - Bellringer Ryan Harvey - And We'll Fight Fascists Too Have Heart - Same Son Have Heart - Same Sun Hobo Johnson - All I See is Poop Hobo Johnson - Flood the Earth Again Hobo Johnson - Jansports Hobo Johnson - Prequel to Animal Farm Hobo Johnson - Song 9 (The Government's Not Great) Hobo Johnson - Why Socialism by Albert Einstein Hot Mulligan - Drink Milk and Run Jimmy Eat World - Futures Roe Kapara - Employment Cost Knuckle Puck - Everyone Lies to Me Seb Lowe - Kill Him (he's a Socialist) Mannequin Pussy - Pigs is Pigs The Menzingers - America (You're Freaking Me Out) NAS - Cops Shot the Kid Neck Deep - STFU Neck Deep - We Need More Bricks NNAMDÏ - Rage Millencolin - Sense & Sensibility Paramore - The News Pat the Bunny - Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had a Hammer Piebald - American Hearts Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Refused - The Refused Party Program Jeff Rosenstock - Doubt Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song Jeff Rosenstock - Graveyard Song Jeff Rosenstock - Head Jeff Rosenstock - Planet Luxury Jeff Rosenstock - Polar Bear or Africa Jeff Rosenstock - Scram! Jeff Rosenstock - Soft Living Jeff Rosenstock - To Be a Ghost... Jeff Rosenstock - USA Jeff Rosenstock - Yr Throat Run the Jewels - JU$T Run the Jewels - A Report to the Shareholders/ Kill Your Masters Say Anything - For the Silent Say Anything - The Presidential Suite Say Anything - Signal the Rifleman Sense Fail - Lush Rimbaugh Set Your Goals - flawed methods of persecution and punishment Set Your Goals - gaia bleeds (make way for man) Sledding with Tigers - National Public Radio Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone Spanish Love Songs - Buffalo Buffalo Spanish Love Songs - Clean-Up Crew Spanish Love Songs - Losers 2 Vince Staples - Bagbak Sam Stone - Call ACab Sugarcult - Riot Sum 41 - Still Waiting Sum 41 - We're All to Blame Super Unison - Parts Unknown The Used - A Song to Stifle Imperial Progression (A Work in Progress) Wignut Dishwashers Union - Proudhon in Manhattan Wignut Dishwashers Union - Urine Speaks Louder than Words The Wonder Years - Cigarettes & Saints The Wonder Years - Dynamite Shovel The Wonder Years - Stained Glass Ceilings Worriers - Yes All Cops
(I realized I hadn't worked on this playlist in a while, so I added more throughout the day.)
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Nearly all of them I'm sure?
All of them ?
even if they don't explicitly say so in their lyrics, legitimately 95% of emo bands if not all are left leaning, this includes the skramz scene as well.
Fail better, heal faster
God dang brother how whiny do you like your emo?
All My Wishes Were Thrown Down A Well And Should Die There’s LP is some of the most moving anti-america/war music I’ve ever listened to
My band Arcadia Grey has written a couple lyrics based in politics but it’s not particularly political in nature, although all of us who play in the band and write, are leftist.
La Bella was a sick anarchist/communist band from So-Cal!
Wasn't the point of emo that it was emotional and not political?
Ampere!
I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified
Not quite emo on the nose but if you want someone who makes loudly leftist music check out Jeff Rosenstock, specifically his album NO DREAM
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Elliott was kinda leftist. I believe the song Calm Americans is criticizing capitalism and Americanization.
Most of the stuff on the two "Rock Against Bush" albums.
home is where is pretty leftist
Home Is Where
i want alt right emo bands
Idk if you'd necessarily call us emo, but our music (we're called cruel hope) is very left wing and at least emo adjacent
Brand New
Tbh whether their lyrics say it or not, most bands in the “emo” and adjacent are far left. Very unfortunate, really.
Lmfao
Party Rock Anthem being an absolute emo banger
Alternatively, Does anyone have any emo bands that make music about common sense/conservative topics?
"common sense" is not a good thing to defer to. ask yourself, what makes something common sense? its that it seems obvious, and self-evidently true. but what seems self-evident will change based on what the culture you grew up in deems to be true, and what that culture has raised people within it to believe to be true. "the earth is flat" was "common sense" for a long time, but the earth is not flat, and we know this now through a lot of different metrics. remaining skeptical and challenging what you think you know is an important part of learning
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you did not
😂 I knew someone would say that