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March Sadness 2026 Band Tournament

Every March, we let the fans decide. Cast your votes, defend your favorites, and find out which emo, punk, ska and alternative acts reign supreme in our 64-band bracket tournament. Compete for prizes and prestige!

Never A Phase Network Is Publishing A Cookbook

"Tell All Your Friends (Dinner's Ready)" is coming soon! 152 emo recipes, hardcover, and featuring contributions from actual NAPNET creators who, it turns out, cannot cook

Under Exposed Volume 41: Carrie Underwood

Your Elder Emo Mom introduces you to your new favorite artist.

130.5: Robb's Brotege & Bananas Weekend Recap + Bands Bringing Out Guests At Shows and Other Gimmicks | Emo Kids Anonymous

Welcome to another little mini episode! Today we're talking about Robb's weekend, more specifically his experience at the Savannah Banana's game doing work with Brotege and the Man-Nana's cheer squad. Okay idk why I started this in third person it's clearly me typing, yeah this was an awesome tim...

131. HummusVacuum: Community, Content Creation & The Art of Shoplifting | Emo Kids Anonymous

Welcome to EKA131! Today we are joined by Kevin Cappy, aka HummusVacuum. We knew this one was gonna be a great time but this truly exceed expectations. From his transition from The Grievance Club to HummusVacuum, to creating content, to how to properly pull one over on the self checkout machines,...

130. Stars Hollow:Tyler Stodghill on Emo, Iowa, Gary Cioni and The Gilmore Girls | Emo Kids Anonymous

Welcome to EKA130! Today we are joined by Tyler Stodghill from Iowa emo icons Stars Hollow! If you are a regular EKA listener you definitely know Stars Hollow. They've been mentioned in Mt. Rushmores, multiple episodes, etc and today we find out what makes them so highly regarded. Tyler walks us...

Episode 223 | Dawn Burns The Nashville Mom

On this episode we have on Dawn Burns, better known as The Nashville Mom We talk about our favorite things to do in Nashville, moving from Charleston to Nashville, our shared love of Parnassus book store, how she became The Nashville Mom on socials.and learning to parent teenagers. A lot of our c...