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Emo Lakes

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There’s a really good chance that you’ve never heard of UK six piece Lakes. While that’s understandable, you’ve more than likely heard bands they’re inspired by. On their new single “Kids (featuring Dan Lambton)” the band shows a side of their upcoming E.P. seven inch This World of Ours, It Came Apart that sounds familiar....More Please

June 9, 2020

Giants Chair Release Limited Edition Two Song Cassette

When Kansas City’s Giants Chair returned with Prefabylon, it was a call for the emo veterans to bring their infectious sounds back to the masses. Their sound was always worth digging into in the past alongside bands like Boys Life and Mineral, and the album was a nice return for a band that had been...More Please

April 29, 2020

Trust the River is Sparta Revitalized & Renewed

To those on the outside, maybe Trust the River by Texas’ Sparta shouldn’t exist. Those who may think that Jim Ward would sit back and live off At The Drive In royalties though would be wrong. Integrity in music is often as hard to find as authenticity, though Ward wears both of those badges with...More Please

January 3, 2020

Short Fictions Add Sparkle to Emo on New Album

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.

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Don't Worry Emo Indie Rock

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

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

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

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

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

July 23, 2019

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

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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

June 13, 2019

The Appleseed Cast Shares Two New Singles Ahead of Upcoming Album

Emo The Appleseed Cast

by Staff

American Football Emo Indie Rock

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

April 3, 2019

The Get Up Kids Expand Their Sound on New Single

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

March 25, 2019

With Debut Single, Trembler Comes in Hot

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

March 22, 2019

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

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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

March 14, 2019

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

American Football Emo

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

March 8, 2019

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

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

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

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

by Staff