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January 3, 2020

Short Fictions Add Sparkle to Emo on New Album

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Emo Short Fictions

by David Garrick

Depending on who you ask, emo music has been around long before the music industry found a way to co-opt and exploit the genre for profit. In the latest crop of emo bands, some have added their own take while others have returned to the earlier sounds of the nineties slew of bands. While we...More Please

December 16, 2019

American Football Releases Year One Demos E.P.

American Football Emo

by David Garrick

Since reuniting, American Football has come fairly full circle as a band. Their latest release has them feeling out age and adulthood with ease while giving fans some tracks they can really find joy in. Now marking their twentieth anniversary of their landmark debut, they’ve released Year One Demos to commemorate the period while announcing...More Please

December 9, 2019

Twenty Years Later, Giants Chair Picks Up Where They Left Off

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Emo Giants Chair

by David Garrick

Any time a band takes over three years to release a new album, there’s a chance they could get forgotten. So if you take over twenty years between albums, then your return can only signal a rebirth. When Giants Chair hung things up over twenty years ago, it largely went unnoticed because so much was...More Please

November 15, 2019

Emo Veterans Giants Chair are Back After Over 20 Year Absence

Emo Giants Chair

Time goes by fast. It seems just like yesterday we were hearing the debut release from Kansas City’s Giants Chair for the first time. Truth be told, it’s been twenty-three years since the emo veterans who played alongside bands like Boys Life and Jimmy Eat World were active. However now, the trio is back with...More Please

October 21, 2019

Jimmy Eat World Proves They’re Great at Surviving

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Emo Jimmy Eat World

Fans of emo veterans Jimmy Eat World can probably admit that their last album wasn’t their best. When the band got their start on Capitol Records, their debut Static Prevails was bookmarked with harsh notes and a youthful energy that they formulated into their more successful albums that followed. Pretty much every album the band...More Please

October 10, 2019

Two Latest Singles by Jimmy Eat World Stand Out in a Good Way

Emo Jimmy Eat World

by David Garrick

Recently we caught Jimmy Eat World on tour and we were pleased with how much energy they still had. While the band has announced their eleventh album Surviving, the first two singles from it expand on their already catchy sound. Without changing direction, the four piece sounds fresher than they have in years on the...More Please

Don’t Worry is One of The Best U.K. Bands You’ve Never Heard

Don't Worry Emo Indie Rock

by David Garrick

We stumble on to bands sometimes with the help of our friends. One friend suggested we check out a UK band called Don’t Worry, and boy are we glad it was suggested. We weren’t a magazine when they dropped their last album Who Cares Anyway? but it’s easily become one of our favorites currently out...More Please

The Appleseed Cast Shares Two New Singles Ahead of Upcoming Album

Emo The Appleseed Cast

It’s been almost five years since we heard a peep out of emo group The Appleseed Cast. However the band appears to be back in full force with a new album called The Fleeting Light of Impermanence due later this month. What’s most intriguing about the two new singles the Kansas quartet have dropped ahead...More Please

The Get Up Kids Expand Their Sound on New Single

Emo The Get Up Kids

by David Garrick

When bands break up and reform, the best way for them to continue on is to grow their sound. Sure, we all want to hear our favorite songs-but as history has proved time and time again-you can’t go home again. With their second single “The Problem Is Me” from their first full length in eight...More Please

With Debut Single, Trembler Comes in Hot

by David Garrick

For some reason, the south has always had a pretty solid amount of emo touched punk music. Maybe it’s the stifling manner of the fact that all of the creatives are open-minded in a part of the country that’s run by the closed minded. That’s what it feels like in places like Houston where the...More Please

On LP 3, American Football Expands Their Sound For the Better

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American Football Emo Indie Rock

by David Garrick

When nineties emo core happened, it happened pretty quickly and was over almost as soon as it began. Over the years, we’ve been lucky to see many of the bands that made up the genre return to releasing new music and touring regularly. The smarter ones realized that they could grow and expand their sounds...More Please

With Three Singles Out, American Football is Growing For the Better

American Football Emo

by David Garrick

When American Football dropped their debut album, it wasn’t the biggest release of that year by far, but still one of the most notable ones. Over the years as the mythos and fandom around the album grew, no one ever thought that the band would return to touring or much less, releasing new music. When...More Please

Watch The Get Up Kids Return in Video for “Satellite”

Emo The Get Up Kids

Last year when the Kicker E.P. from The Get Up Kids came out, we were impressed how it sounded like the band without being too nostalgic. Now ahead of their new album Problems coming in May, the Kansas City emo band is back with a new track and a new video for the song “Satellite,”...More Please

February 1, 2019

New Screamo Featuring Members of Football, etc. & Rose Ette? Yes, Please

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Emo Overo Screamo

by David Garrick

We often wonder, can you really trust an artist today that’s not playing in multiple projects? Down in Houston it seems that many or the musicians have the ability to link up and form new projects, so it’s not uncommon to see multiple bands made up of the same people intertwined. We heard kind of...More Please

January 28, 2019

Groundhog Day Eviscerates on Debut

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Emo Groundhog Day Punk

by David Garrick

For a long time now, we’ve seen traditional emo and punk criss cross lines where they’re essentially the same thing. Few bands can meld the two together where you can tell the difference, though Houston’s Groundhog Day seem to have figured out how to do just that. On their debut full length, The Worst It’s...More Please

January 18, 2019

Tiny Moving Parts Get Deep on New Drop

Emo Tiny Moving Parts

Minnesota trio Tiny Moving Parts has been making emo music for a minute now, and been nailing the scream heavy side of the genre in the process. Now with a new two song release, they give fans a new video for one of the songs, and prove they’re still at the top of their game....More Please

January 7, 2019

A New Band With Members of The Get Up Kids & The Anniversary? Yes, Please

Emo Indie Radar State

It’s no secret that Radar State, the new band featuring members of The Get Up Kids, The Anniversary and The Architects are a thing. What you may not know is that they have a new album, Strays out on January 11 and the first two singles are definitely worth hearing. The first single, “Strays” has...More Please

January 7, 2019

Mineral Offers Up New Sounds on Second Track From New Book

by David Garrick

Austin’s Mineral seemed to have epic myths spun about them in the years that they were absent from performing and even being seen in public together as a unit. Though the band’s two albums were a part of many of our youths, hearing anything new from the four piece is something that should be met...More Please

January 1, 2019

The Latest Single From Norway’s Spielbergs is Pretty Excellent

by David Garrick

Norway trio Spielbergs got on our radar in April when they dropped their energetic and frenzied Distant Star E.P. In so many ways, they reminded us of nineties bands like Seam, Nation of Ulysses and even In On The Kill Taker era Fugazi. Now, less than a year later, the three piece is back with...More Please

December 13, 2018

Groundhog Day Drops Video for Latest Single

Emo Groundhog Day

by David Garrick

Houston’s Groundhog Day may have formed out of the ashes of two other bands, but the energy and intensity of the emo tinged sound is hard not to like. With their album due in the first part of next year, the four piece recently dropped a new song and video for “Ceiling Web” and both...More Please