List of Midwest emo bands

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This is a list of Midwest emo bands.

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References

0–9

7 Birches^{[citation needed]}

A

Adjust the Sails^[1]
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves^[2]
Algernon Cadwallader^[3]
American Football^[4]^[5]
Amoeba Arena^[6]
The Anniversary^[7]
Anxious^[8]
The Appleseed Cast^[9]
Aren't We Amphibians^[10]

B

Balance and Composure^[2]^[11]
Barely Civil^[12]
Basement^[13]^{[better source needed]}
Ben Quad^[14]
Better Place^[15]
Bicycle Inn^{[citation needed]}
Boys Life^{[citation needed]}
Braid^[16]
Brave Bird^{[citation needed]}
The Brave Little Abacus^[17]^{[better source needed]}
breathingtechniques^[18]
By the End of Summer^{[citation needed]}

C

Canadian Softball^[19]
Camping in Alaska^[20]
Cap'n Jazz^[21]
Carb on Carb^{[citation needed]}
The Cardboard Swords^[22]
The Casper Fight Scene^[23]
Cavity Kids^[24]
Chamberlain^[25]
Charmer^[26]
Cherry Cola Champions^[27]
Chinese Football^[28]
Christie Front Drive^[9]
Cliffdiver^[29]
Crash Of Rhinos^[2]
CSTVT^[30]
Cursive^{[citation needed]}

D

Dads^{[citation needed]}
Dear and the Headlights^{[citation needed]}
Dear Maryanne^[31]
Deer Leep^{[citation needed]}
Dikembe^[2]^[26]
Dogleg^[32]
Dowsing^[33]

E

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)^[34]
Everyone Asked About You
Everyone Everywhere^[2]^[9]
Excuse Me Who Are You?^[35]

F

Flight Patterns^[36]
Flower Head^[37]
Football, Etc.^[38]
Forests^[39]
Foxtails^{[citation needed]}
Foxing^[40]
Frat Mouse^[41]
Free Throw^[42]
The Front Bottoms^[43]
Further Seems Forever^[44]

G

The Get Up Kids^[45]
Ghosts and Vodka^[30]
Glocca Morra^[17]
Gods Reflex^[4]
Grown Ups^{[citation needed]}

H

Harrison Gordon^[46]
Hop Along^[17]
Home Is Where^[47]
Hot Mulligan^[26]
The Hotelier^[17]^{[better source needed]}

I

Into It. Over It.^[48]
It Looks Sad.^{[citation needed]}

J

Jank^[17]^{[better source needed]}
Jets To Brazil^[49]
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up^{[citation needed]}
Joan Of Arc^[26]
Joie De Vivre^[30]
Joyce Manor^[17]
Just Neighbors

K

Kississippi^{[citation needed]}
Kittyhawk^[27]
Knapsack^[44]

L

Laughing Matter
Lifted Bells^[30]
Little Big League^{[citation needed]}
Live Tetherball Tonight^[50]

M

Marietta^[51]
Melanie^[52]
Merchant Ships^[53]
mewithoutYou^[54]
Michael Cera Palin^[55]
Midwest Pen Pals^[56]
The Milwaukees^{[citation needed]}
Mineral^[57]
Modern Baseball^[22]
Modest Mouse^[49]
Mom Jeans^[22]^[26]
Mush^[58]

N

Nai Harvest^[59]
The Newfound Interest in Connecticut^{[citation needed]}
Newgrounds Death Rugby^[60]
No More Sports^[61]

O

Oakwood^[62]
The Obsessives^[63]
Ogbert the Nerd^{[citation needed]}
Oliver Houston^[64]
Oolong^[65]
Origami Angel^[66]
Oso Oso^[17]^{[better source needed]}
OWEL^[2]
Owen^{[citation needed]}

P

Party Hats^[67]
P.E.E.^{[citation needed]}
Pegmap^{[citation needed]}
Penfold^{[citation needed]}
Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold^[68]
Pet Symmetry
Petal^{[citation needed]}
Pianos Become the Teeth^[4]^[17]^{[better source needed]}
Piglet^{[citation needed]}
Pinegrove^[17]^{[better source needed]}
Pity Sex^[17]^{[better source needed]}
Pool Kids^{[citation needed]}
Poor Sports.^[69]^[70]
Prince Daddy & the Hyena^{[citation needed]}
The Promise Ring^[50]

R

Rainer Maria^[71]^[72]
Remember Sports^[73]
Rob Ford Explorer^[74]

S

Sarge^{[citation needed]}
saturdays at your place^[75]
The Shins^{[citation needed]}
Signals Midwest^[76]
Slaughter Beach, Dog^[77]
Snowing^[17]^{[better source needed]}
Sorority Noise^[41]
Spanish Love Songs^[78]
sports.^[79]
Strictly Ballroom^{[citation needed]}
Sunny Day Real Estate^[80]
susquatch^{[citation needed]}
Sweet Pill^[81]
Sympathy Card^[82]

T

Texas Is The Reason^[49]
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die^[4]
Their / They're / There^[30]
Tigers Jaw^[83]
Tiny Moving Parts^[26]
Title Fight^[84]
TRSH^[46]
TTNG^{[citation needed]}

V

The Van Pelt^[44]
Vs Self^{[citation needed]}

W

Worlds Greatest Dad^{[citation needed]}

Y

Yeesh^[85]
You Blew It!^[2]

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