The Format

Fiddler Records founder Amy Fleisher Madden’s new book ’Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)’ features essays by members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Something Corporate, The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Texas Is The Reason, and Braid, and a foreword by Chris Carrabba.

Our latest exclusive vinyl variants are color spatter pressing of The Format’s two studio LPs, ’Interventions + Lullabies’ and ’Dog Problems,’ limited to 350 copies each.

Also participating in Band Shirt Day: Blondie, Flipper, Sleater-Kinney, Tori Amos, OFF!, Parquet Courts and many more

”Perhaps once we get it properly sorted we can entertain the idea of some larger venues so that everyone who wants to will get a better chance to see us,” Sam and Nate write

The Format had already rescheduled their reunion shows in twice. “Hopefully the third time’s a charm?“

Jim will also inteview Chris Carrabba, David Bazan, Tegan Quinn and others about their creative processes on the upcoming ‘Pass Through Frequencies’ series…

Straylight Run finally ”reunited” (virtually, at least) for the first time in over 10 years, so we took the opportunity to look back on their great, often-underrated discography.

While the coronavirus has caused all tours to be cancelled through the spring if not early summer, there were long-awaited and rare events that nobody saw coming in the first place that were suddenly cut short — most notably reunions — that fall into their own special subcategory of ”this sucks.”

Devin Townsend, Bob Weir & Wolf Bros, Fennesz, and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are also among the bands that have cancelled or postponed shows and tours amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Format’s first NYC, Chicago, and Phoenix shows in 12 years go on sale at noon local time.