Since it’s the last day of the 12 Days Of 90s Emo, which is probably the 15 Days Of 90s Emo Counting Weekends at this point, and the already loose definition of the genre has been all smooshed and stretched outta shape, I’m not going to argue with any protective fans who want to say Jawbreaker were… MORE »
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Another Emo Grab Bag For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure (Gravity Records Edition)
To be perfectly honest I’ve lost track of which of the 12 days we’re up to at this point, and I may have wandered right off the emo map with this one. (Damn these blurry borders!) But if the rapture came (the world-ending dealie) and I was forced to choose which record label catalogs would ascend and which would be left behind, I would not pause when St. Peter came to San Diego’s Gravity Records, whose early string of records, from their stylistic plurality (from Man Is The Bastard’s vivisection-hatin’ prog-grind to Evergreen’s brood-out wuss rock) to their packaging (who else could work the art/cheapness divide so smartly by wrapping a beloved seven-inch by the numbingly fast Mohinder in a rumpled Levi’s ad clipped from a fashion mag?), remain the ’90s high ideal of arty hardcore for me. Fans of speedy, jerky dissonance would do well to hunt down the vinyl of any and all of Gravity’s first 25 or so releases, some of which can, yes, be tagged emo if properly prefixed or suffixed. MORE »
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Current, Fisticuffs Bluff, And Still Life Push Us Away From The Warm And Fuzzy
A fan of our “12 Days Of 90s Emo” feature writes: “time to get off the poppier side of things. where are the still life, indian summer, current etc videos!!!!!” Good question! MORE »
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Braid Take Us Right To The Cusp Of ’90s Emo
If anyone’s still out there this late on this Friday night before a four-day holiday weekend, here’s that Braid-by-request installment in our “12 Days Of 90s Emo,” and obviously these Illinois fellows, who broke up on the eve of the decade ending (roughly right after this clip was filmed), are one… MORE »
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And Now By Request: Sunny Day Real Estate
So do I get crucified if I say that I never really thought SDRE were (to go by the standard history) the emo alpha to Rites Of Spring’s omega? Wait, should that be reversed? MORE »
Lifetime Makes Me Feel (Slightly) Better About Living In Jersey
It’s very difficult digging up Lifetime videos on YouTube. At first. Plug in “lifetime” and you get flooded with live Talking Heads and at least one Tay Zonday song. Narrow your search with “hardcore” (genre), “emo” (subgenre), and/or “New Jersey” (location of band’s origin in the ’90s) and you do a little better. But Lifetime never made a video video–unless you could this promo clip for their not-bad 2007 comeback album, which mostly just bummed me out because while I can accept a buncha middle-aged Jersey boys taking it back to the festival barns, seeing them listlessly “play” to a buncha kids on Decaydance’s dime… yeccch–so YouTube’s Lifetime haul is naturally restricted to live cameraphone clips or (worse!) squinty (there’s that word again) transfers from zine-traded vids. But!
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Why Did We Ever Love The Promise Ring?
A: Because they were (sometimes) great. Time and their own later wack long-players have left a quasi-shameful residue around them, but I am unashamed. (Get me started on Cap’n Jazz and it’s like my grandfather rambling about wartime hijinx after a few Milwaukee’s Best.) MORE »
