Members of Minus The Bear, Thursday, Braid, The Promise Ring, Small Brown Bike, Helmet, Christie Front Drive, Government Issue, Planes Mistaken For Stars, and more come together on this almost-definitely-ironic drum playthrough video...
1996 was a historic year for emo. This edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at 18 landmark emo (and emo-adjacent post-hardcore) albums from that year in honor of their 25th anniversaries...
Lots of live footage captured by the late Tim Morris, a Red Bank, NJ resident who was a fixture of the scene that put on shows at his own house and taped lots of shows, has made its way online.
The playlist includes music by Weezer, Fugazi, The Promise Ring, Sugar, Wilco, Jawbreaker, Elliott Smith, Sebadoh, Christie Front Drive, Superchunk, Pedro The Lion, Drive Like Jehu, Archers of Loaf, and more.
Among the bands keeping emo raw and real during the genre's mainstream breakout of the early 2000s was DC/Virginia's Fairweather, whose second and final album before breaking up, 2003's Lusitania, was one of the better (and comparatively overlooked) albums of its kind...