Emo never went away. But these bands are bringing back the pre-2000s sound.
When quarantine began, I started to dig deeper into emo music. Being locked in my house, I didn’t feel like listening to reggaeton or synthpop. I discovered many classic emo bands, but also a new generation of Latin Emo that is truly amazing. I’m so happy I discovered these bands and that Remezcla gave me a place to write about them in May. All of them are independent and don’t have a lot of followers, so I hope this article helped them get a bigger audience.
In case you didn’t know, Remezcla turned out to be quite an awful place with a very toxic working environment. I only wrote a few times for them and never had a problem, but of course I’m glad these women spoke out. Unfortunately, only Eduardo Cepeda left the company and Andrew Herrera is still the CEO, so I truly don’t think much has changed and I’ll probably never write for them again. Last year, I wrote for them an article about how girl rock camp in Latin America are giving girls more confidence. It was so inspiring to talk to the managers of the rock camps of Argentina, Perú and Mexico, and I think it was a very interesting article, but unfortunately, it was never published.