Once a trailblazing name in the mid-’90s emocore scene, Jimmy Eat World eventually found a larger audience by embracing a blend of alternative rock and power pop that targeted the heart as well as the head.

The band’s influence widened considerably with 1999’s “Clarity” — an album that has since emerged as a landmark of the emo genre — it was the band’s follow-up “Bleed American” (specifically the infectious single “The Middle”) that crowned them as major figures in commercial rock. The emo label proved difficult to shake throughout the 2000s, even when subsequent albums like Futures and Chase This Light did little to evoke the hard-edged sensitivity of Clarity, but Jimmy Eat World still remained a league above the generation of emocore torch-bearers they helped spawn.

Jimmy Eat World will be making a stop in Chico on Wednesday at the Senator Theater, 517 Main St. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the show set to start at 8 p.m. The band Man With a Mission will be the show’s opener.

Tickets are $27.50 in advance and at the door. Tickets are available for purchase at Diamond W Western Wear, Blaze N J’s, Fusion Pit in Anderson or online at jmaxproductions.net. The show is all ages.

Jimmy Eat World formed in February 1994 in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, Arizona. Jim Adkins (vocals/guitar) and Zach Lind (drums) met while attending Mountain View High School; years of playing in local bands had also introduced them to locals Tom Linton (guitar/vocals) and Mitch Porter (bass). The four musicians joined forces and derived the band’s moniker from an argument between Linton’s younger brothers, Ed and Jimmy. The two siblings were prone to fighting, with the heavyset Jimmy usually emerging as the victor.

One day, a revengeful Ed resorted to drawing a picture of his heavyset older brother shoving the entire world into his mouth. The caption “Jimmy Eat World” was printed beneath, and the band deemed it a perfect fit. Citing influences like Rocket from the Crypt, early Def Leppard, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Fugazi, and the Velvet Underground, Jimmy Eat World outfitted themselves as a punk rock act and began playing small shows in the Phoenix valley.

Over the course of 1994 and early 1995, Jimmy Eat World released several EPs and singles on Wooden Blue Records, an imprint based in the nearby town of Tempe. The band’s audience was steadily growing, and Capitol Records responded by signing Jimmy Eat World in mid-1995, when band leaders Adkins and Linton were only 19 years old. Porter soon exited the group; Linton’s best mate since seventh grade, bassist Rick Burch, was enlisted as a replacement, and the band marked their major debut with the release of 1996’s Static Prevails.

The band’s ninth album landed in late 2016. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Paramore), Integrity Blues featured the singles “Get Right” and “Sure and Certain.”

For ticket sales and more information on Jimmy Eat World visit www.jmaxproductions.netor call 898-1497.