2001 was the year that emo broke into the mainstream, and no band took it to greater popularity than Jimmy Eat World did with the ”The Middle.” The near-perfect album that birthed that single turns 20 today.
”There was a fair bit of world-building around the characters for the ‘555’ music video and it felt too interesting to end the story there… it screamed for a comic adaption,” says Jim Adkins.
The video for the song features tons of awesome musicians and their pets, including Julien Baker, Jim Adkins, Walter Schreifels, Aaron Weiss, Frank Iero, Tim McIlrath, Barry Johnson, Ned Russin, Tim Kasher, Mike Park, and many more...
Jim will also inteview Chris Carrabba, David Bazan, Tegan Quinn and others about their creative processes on the upcoming 'Pass Through Frequencies' series...
The second volume of Tom Mullen's (Washed Up Emo) 'Anthology of Emo' book series also features the final interview with the late Jon Bunch (Sense Field, Further Seems Forever) and interviews with members of Foxing, Karate, Piebald, and more...
Despite their great early years, I've been pretty turned off by the last couple Jimmy Eat World albums, but today frontman Jim Adkins put out a new solo ...