Musicians who grew up listening to everything from heavy metal to The Strokes should understand genres.But Matt Pryor and Kevin Devine, who will play at the Spanish Moon tonight, are still baffled when they are called “emo.”While Pryor has a background playing with the punk/pop band The Get-Up Kids and the rock band The New Amsterdams, Devine grew up playing with punk rock bands.Devine said many fans think of them as emo singers because of their pasts, but he argues the two cannot be so easily classified.”I’ve never really known what emo meant,” Devine said. “The ideology has become haircuts and white belts. Something has been lost in translation to Hot Topic.”Natalie Guidry, English senior, saw Devine several times and plans on attending the Spanish Moon show. She said she would not classify the musicians as “emo.””Emo doesn’t turn me off,” Guidry said. “I always try to give [bands] a good listen.”Guidry said though she used to listen to bands that were often labeled as “emo,” her interests have grown toward the indie-rock genre.”Emo is such an overused categorization,” she said. “Now it labels more of a pop-punk movement. I don’t like people using it as such a broad term.”Devine said the bands he grew up playing with were concerned with ideas like anarchy and socialism. They were less concerned with music that was aggressive or abrasive.Pryor said he grew up listening to heavy metal.”Genre? I don’t know anything about that,” Pryor said. “I just write songs as they come to me.”Devine said the emo label has changed.”The weird thing about emo becoming a popular music commodity is that a lot … that was in there when it started has been annexed to make it  more streamlined,” Devine said.Devine said the concerns with animal rights, police brutality and unfair court systems have been lost.”I listened to Neil Young and Hank Williams and Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan more than Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy,” Devine said. “My music reflects that: bands now and bands I grew up with. That’s what I hear.”Pryor said his new album, “Confidence Man,” is simpler than the music he played with The Get-Up Kids and The New Amsterdams.”This one is just acoustic guitar and one vocal,” Pryor said. “It’s a real simple, real stripped down folk record.”Devine said the new album he recorded shows he cannot be put under one label.”I can write a punk rock song and a folk song and a song that’s just an indie rock song and have it all be Kevin Devine,” he said. “I don’t see why I can’t do that.”Pryor said when people try to label him, he does not care.”People can call me whatever they want,” he said.This will be the first album Devine has recorded since his October 2006 album, “Put Your Ghost to Rest.” He has been professionally playing music for about four years.”It’s crazy to look back at it because I can’t look back at the moment where it happened,” Devine said of his music career. “I saw that there was enough of a response for me to travel, and now there is no more office or restaurant. This is what I’m doing professionally.”Pryor said he is looking forward to the show with Devine.”It should be fun,” he said. “It should be a quiet little evening of acoustic guitars and a no-need-for-earplugs kind of show.”Admission is $10 at the door.—- Contact Blake Stephens at [email protected]