Emo
34 articles
Bad Religion, Dag Nasty: Bad Religion: Generator (Epitaph); Dag Nasty: Four on the Floor (Epitaph)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 12 March 1992
HARDCORE PUNK happened more than 10 years ago, meant less than it wanted to then, and means less than nothing now. Bad Religion and Dag ...
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
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Dashboard Confessional: The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2002
IF THE "EMO" fraternity need a hero, Florida's Christopher Carrabba, aka Dashboard Confessional, is their man. Hurling a barrage of poetic abuse and violently chugging ...
The Promise Ring: Breaking Out of the Emo Ghetto
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002
Faced with health problems and a genre that felt confining, the Promise Ring chose a radical-and lush-new direction. ...
Dashboard Confessional: MTV Unplugged 2.0
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2003
Softly spoken EMO hero gets crushed by overzealous fans. ...
Dashboard Confessional: Metro, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 20 January 2003
CRAMMED INTO THE SMALL SPACE in front of the Metro's stage were about 150 people, and half of them seemed to know every word to ...
Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Faint, The Good Life: Omaha: Next Stop Nowhere
Report and Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, July 2003
America's new indie-rock capital was born when a 13-year-old songsmith named Conor Oberst started putting out recordings on his brother's bedroom cassette label. Ten years ...
Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar
Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 8 August 2003
EMO IS THE VARIANT of punk-pop that favours sensitivity and intelligence over beer and boobies, and Dashboard Confessional are its leading lights. ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 8 November 2003
Hundred Reasons make terrible rock stars. They do, however, make fantastic rock albums. This despite being crippled by panic attacks, chronic geekyness and rampant alcohol ...
My Chemical Romance: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (Polydor) ***
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 9 April 2004
ALTHOUGH My Chemical Romance have tried to spice up their image by nicknaming their patch of suburban New Jersey "the Crimezone", it would be surprising ...
Death Cab for Cutie: Astoria, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 3 March 2006
AFTER A NEAR-DECADE loitering on the college rock margins, Seattle four-piece Death Cab for Cutie saw an appearance on US teen soap The OC power ...
Panic! at the Disco: Astoria, London
Live Review by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 29 April 2006
PANIC! AT THE DISCO'S DEBUT ALBUM may be called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, but tonight their obsessive fans are trying to do just ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 24 August 2006
INTRIGUING ON PAPER though Tennessee-spawned quintet Paramore are – female-fronted emo-rockers stealing diaries back from their plagiarising older brothers — 'Emergency' is a fairly weak ...
My Chemical Romance: Saviours Of The Damned
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), November 2006
With talk of ghosts, pesky kids and freaky cartoons, My Chemical Romance's year to date could almost be a warped Scooby Doo cartoon. Although recording ...
My Chemical Romance: Brixton Academy, London ***
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 November 2006
AT 9:45 ON SUNDAY MORNING, it wasn't surprising to see a queue already straggling down the side of Brixton Academy. ...
My Chemical Romance: The Italian Job: My Chemical Romance: Alcatraz, Milan ****
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Q, February 2007
Calling all hormonally charged misfits. ...
My Chemical Romance: Three Cheers For Sweet Success
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 1 February 2007
Although allegations of either illness or internal band problems have seen guitarist Frank Iero depart the current world tour prior to their Big Day Out ...
Fall Out Boy: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 15 March 2007
They're arguably the world's foremost emo band, yet for a brief moment in 2006 it looked like it could all unravel for Fall Out Boy. ...
Dashboard Confessional: Scala, London NW1
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 23 January 2008
PARENTS WHO FEAR the effects of emo should spend some time with Chris Carrabba. Under the guise of Dashboard Confessional, the South Florida-raised singer, songwriter ...
Panic! At the Disco: University, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 19 March 2008
THE RED-HAIRED GIRL AT THE BAR is having a crisis: she has been declared too young to buy alcohol and furiously hurls an apparently bogus ...
Guide by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 24 April 2008
BACK IN FEBRUARY, one DiS messageboarder was moved to say to the masses: "I challenge you to prove to me that math-rock is real". Responses ...
Fall Out Boy: Chemical Brothers
Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 24 October 2008
Fall Out Boy are the pin-ups of choice for an over-medicated, emo generation. But as election day approaches in the US, the band tell Stevie ...
From Mod to Emo: Why Pop Tribes Are Still Making a Scene
Overview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 February 2010
Like-minded music fans have been herding together for half a century — but are die-hard pop tribes now a thing of the past? Do today's ...
Drake, Paramore: Paramore, Drake Rock Into the Night at New Jersey's Bamboozle
Live Review by Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2010
DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS of the two-day New Jersey parking-lot festival known as the Bamboozle, attendees wander around the Meadowlands grounds, scoring rides on the ...
Paramore: "We're not just teenybopper superstars"
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 4 November 2010
Noisy guitars, angsty lyrics, inter-band romance, a little light rebellion — it's a formula that has made Paramore huge. Paul Lester meets their star singer ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 November 2010
THEY'VE HAD A NO 1 ALBUM with Brand New Eyes and have sold out their UK arena tour, but Paramore aren't on the musical radar ...
Fall Out Boy: How To Make A Comeback Record In 2013
Comment by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 16 April 2013
MAKING a "comeback record," especially these days, is an interesting thing. There's a real science behind it. ...
Fall Out Boy: American Beauty/American Psycho
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 January 2015
"THIS IS A really important record," Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz says of their sixth album. That's less self-aggrandising than it appears: he meant only that the long-serving ...
Panic! at the Disco: Brendon Urie on his new album, Death of a Bachelor
Interview by Pip Williams, Coup De Main, 22 February 2016
Hot on the heels of his new album release, we had a chat with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco. Now we've had a ...
At the Drive-In: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 28 March 2016
DYNAMISM UNDIMMED by the departure of Jim Ward, the band play punk-rock as a pure adrenaline rush, tempos changing and riffs turning on hairpins. ...
At the Drive-In pick up where they left off — sounding like the future
Profile by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 24 February 2017
SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THEY SPLIT, At the Drive-In's return brings back hot-footed, high-wire punk that honours their past. ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 6 August 2017
He doesn't have a record label, but he's huge on Instagram and gets mobbed "like Justin Bieber" in Russia. Lil Peep tells Lisa Verrico why ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 15 January 2018
FORGET WHAT you think you know about Paramore. No longer are the Tennessee band all about angst, eyeliner and power chords. Paramore in 2018 are ...
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 19 January 2018
MANY A BAND has stumbled trying to take a cult following with them into the uber-mainstream. However, since re-forming in 2013, Fall Out Boy have ...
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