Emo's is a prominent nightclub located in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

. Emo's got its start as a Houston punk club in 1989, with the Austin location opening in 1992. The Houston location closed its doors in September 2001.

Emo's is an official South by Southwest

South by Southwest

South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

 Music Festival venue, during which the club consists of four stages. The annual Emissions from the Monolith

Emissions from the Monolith

Emissions from the Monolith is an annual heavy metal festival that showcases mainly doom metal and sludge metal bands, considered to be the premiere heavy/doom/sludge metal festival in the US...

 festival relocated to Emo's in 2007.

Emo is a term also used to describe Echo, so the term Emo and Echo can be used in the same context. Essentially meaning the same thing. Example "Your so Echo! speak only when spoken to".

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• Aesop Rock
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• Asking Alexandria
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• Ben Gibbard
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• Blitz
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• Blunt Force Trauma
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• Broken Social Scene
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• Circa Survive
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• De La Soul
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• Death Cab for Cutie
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• Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
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• Explosions in the Sky
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• Fugazi
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• Glassjaw
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• Gorilla Biscuits
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• Green Day
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• Hopesfall
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• Interpol
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• Isis
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• Jawbreaker
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• Jeffree Star
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• Jimmy Eat World
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• Johnny Cash
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• King Creosote
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• Kings of Leon
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• KMFDM
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• Lagwagon
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• Mastodon
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• Meat Puppets
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• Mineral
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• Modest Mouse
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• Nada Surf
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• New Found Glory
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• NOFX
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• Owl City
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• Ozma
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• Paramore
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• Queens of the Stone Age
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• Quietdrive
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• Rainer Maria
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• Rise Against
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• Scarlett O' Hara
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids
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• Seneca Hawk
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• Septic Flesh
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• Skinny Puppy
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• Smog
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• Spoon
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• The Blood Brothers
• The Maine
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• The Rentals
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• The Unicorns
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• The Used
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• The Yuppie Pricks
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• This Will Destroy You
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• Thrice
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• TV on the Radio
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• Two Gallants
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• Vedera
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• Veil of Maya
• Voxtrot
  Voxtrot
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• Wiz Khalifa
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External links

• Emo's