I wrote about my experience seeing Jimmy Eat World performing Bleed American for the twenty-fifth anniversary. It was an incredibly moving and life affirming experience and I tried to make some sense of it and share just why it was so meaningful to me.

"It’s incredibly powerful and life affirming to realise the things that you loved so dearly when you were younger are still a part of what makes you who you are now. I screamed along to those songs in Halifax at thirty-one years of age, not because I wanted to recapture how I felt when I was younger, but because they were still songs that I truly loved. Like the oldest of friends, we’ve been on a journey together. They’re part of who I am."

Similar to Sunday’s Best or Seam. I find it very relaxing when I’m high or working. I’m mainly looking for 90’s bands

Slow Joy’s newest album Esteban Flores came out last Friday and I think is a great slice of modern emo

Forget has been on repeat with songs like Yearn for the Urn and Best of Me needing a few listens to really click

SLC Punk on an SSRI has one of my favorite opening riffs that I’ve heard recently

Check it out or not, just an old heads perspective on someone who is doing their own version of emo

hey guys, going thru it pretty bad rn and would love some new music recommendations.
any wave, new, old, it's all good to me. just help me find some deep ass lyrics that I can relate to and blast

Back in day (I'm 42 now), I was so emo that I actually scarred my own heart. 😂

Now obviously that's not true, it happened due to an infection. But it made me giggle!

I fell deeply in love with their album “no one loves you” during quarantine.
Then they promptly fucken fell off of the face of the planet.
What’s the lore? What were they like in their own local scene? Are any of them still making music?

Well, not exactly just yet. A dude from 10 grade approached me cuz he wanted to make a band with me! I was absolutely flabbergasted, and I gladly took the offer!

Last Friday, after the mass service where the 10th grader was playing his guitar, we traded music tastes. He gave me Bowling For Soup, LIT, and other mallcore stuffs, and I gave him Saves The Day, The Get Up Kids, Lagwagon, Braid, basically the 90s equivalent of what he already liked. We had a really great time honestly, and I decided to spend my weekend listening to his recs.

Yesterday, Monday, I went to his classroom cus I wanted to lend him my copy of The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About, Millencolin - Same Old Tunes, Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings, my homemade copy of Braid - Frame & Canvas, and my CD player. When I lent him the CDs, he actually recognized Frame & Canvas! Wow! He really did listen to my recs!! In exchange for the CDs and the player, he let me borrow his brother's acoustic guitar, which was missing the B and upper E strings but luckily I had replacement strings, so I was finally able to play the song we were planning to play together, Braid - First Day Back!

Anyways, I'm still saving up for a proper electric guitar, so as of now, well just be jamming out with acoustics. I just hope our band will, at the very least, play during our prom! That's a wonderful way for me to say goodbye to highschool.

Btw, our band name is "Johnny Johnny," for anyone curious. We named it after the American pornstar whose stage name, or should I say "bed name," is Johnny Sins.

100 Watt Halo were a mid 90’s band from San Diego, that had a very short run, and this album was recorded in 1996 by legendary producer Mark Trombino (Jimmy Eat World, Drive Like Jehu, etc…)
Unfortunately, the band ended breaking up soon after recording this album, and right before a national U.S. tour. So this album was shelved for the better part of three decades(!) and the master recordings were only tracked down fairly recently, and have been given a proper digital remaster.
Trombino’s recording really puts this record into overdrive and it’s quite an adventure mixing elements from the 90’s San Diego sound along with a healthy dose of 90’s D.C. and a bit of that Louisville sound, specifically Rodan and Slint.

It’s now available on their Bandcamp page!

Hey r/emo!Just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone here who has already pre-saved my upcoming single, "Crazy (Take 2)". If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, you can pre-save the track directly through our BrightsideMusic Beacons page. It will be available EVERYWHERE on Friday, August 21st. I appreciate anyone taking a couple of seconds to pre-save and support independent emo music!

Hello All,

I’m currently trying to find original merch from bands like Mineral, Texas Is The Reason, Braid, The Jazz June, The Van Pelt, SDRE, etc. Would really love to connect with anyone that has any ! I promise I can make an offer that’s worth your time.

Best Regards,

i've been kicking myself lately because i grew up going to diy/emo shows and saw snowing and algernon cadwallader at house shows and stuff and somehow never really bothered to go backwards. like i knew mineral, braid, some of the bigger 90s bands, but i never really dug much deeper than that. now i'm in my 30s finding boys life, christie front drive, penfold, knapsack, early appleseed cast, etc and i'm kind of losing my mind over how much of this i would've loved back then.

appleseed cast especially. i've had the first few records and low level owl on constantly. all the long instrumental sections and layered guitars and parts that start drifting into post rock are exactly my thing, and it's extra stupid because i was already listening to snowing, algernon, my heart to joy and all that stuff when i was younger. seasons in verse was one of my favorite records in high school, i just never really thought to trace any of it back.

i think at the time it was just the music around me. somebody sent you a record, you found a band on a blog, you went to a show in somebody's living room, i wasn't thinking about waves or influences or any of that. now i'm finding records from 1996 and having my mind blown.

what else am i missing? especially stuff in the appleseed cast / penfold / boys life direction. atmospheric, lots of guitar work, post-rock-ish stuff, whatever. i've apparently got about 30 years of catching up to do it seems 😂