Hands down my favorite screamo band at the moment. Their album "Old Pride" is a great listen through and through. I can't say enough nice things but I'm wasting your time from listening to this stuff. Go now and report back... http://www.myspace.com/pianosbecometheteeth
Take equal parts At the Drive In, Touche Amore and some Me Without You and you are sorta near where La Dispute land. I found them tonight while searching though some last.fm and this damn song ("Such Small Hands") never left my head all night. I may like super old band but I'll give props to new bands doing it right. La Dispute happens to be very right.
I am going to date myself, well who cares, I'm washed up anyways. There was a band from Philly called Frail who sounded like a bomb waiting to explode. Look them up now. Ok, finished? Good. Now listen to Saddest Landscape. The similarities are there and the sound is fresh on the ears. You exploded. New album, go pre-order it and listen to one track here.
There are some perks to running a site like this, other than responding to flame emails from underage hair farmers, I get to review some of the best up and coming music. One of those bands is Princess Dinosaur. Born from the ashes of Nic Newsham and Nick Vombrack from Gatsby's American Dream and Dr. Manhattan respectively.
With the help of their mutual friend Casey Bates to introduce the two, the duo wrote and recorded the EP between two studios in Washington and Illinois. Think Brand New, Places and Numbers, As Cities Burn and Owen. It's not the first time a band member has branched off to do their own thing with someone else and turn down the noise, this just one just sounds better than the others.
A band's common thing to say in interviews is that their newest album is always their best. How can you fault them? It's the same feeling you have each time you hear a band for that fateful 2nd album, hoping it's just as good as the last and closing your eyes as each new note and second pass. As I close my eyes, I'm looking forward to that 2nd chapter.
"A Goldfish and his Friends" EP is available this August for free, just follow them on Twitter.
Through the grapevine, the album sounds more like Clarity and Bleed American
Cannot wait to hear what song Tom sings.
Track listing is 01. Heart Is Hard To Find 02. My Best Theory 03. Evidence 04. Higher Devotion 05. Movielike 06. Coffee and Cigarettes 07. Stop 08. Littlething 09. Cut 10. Action Needs An Audience 11. Invented 12. Mixtape
Castevet. I am definitely late on them as many in the online world have already given em praise with references to Hot Water Music, Mineral, American Football. Lets throw in On The Might of Princes why don't we. This band takes the chaotic nature of melodic hardcore and melds with the complex mathcore days to combine a sound all their own. For fans of Washed Up Emo, there couldn't be a higher recommendation.
http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/emo-is-the-new-hair-metal/ One of my inspirations 3 years ago was the similarities of hair metal and emo. I did a long post on this blog and our good friends at Metal Hammer finally figured it out after featuring those bands in their pages and online for 2 years. Congrats Metal Hammer! Can't wait to read the next article about Haelstorm!
How about that feeling of being a show without your cell phone going off with a text, tweet, tumblr and Facebook message to stop from you enjoying the music? Well welcome to the current time warp of bands that has FINALLY realized what EMO is.
Newest band with a stamp of approval from Washed Up Emo is Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate). Great earnest and varied sound with great quiet/loud parts. I can't wait to hear this live. See you in Brooklyn June 16th Empire! Empire!
I have no idea how I missed this. A wedding in Germany has a karaoke party with bands on the playlist that would have Nana and Gramps running for the exits. Each member of the wedding party gets up there and rocks out. I am floored.
Let me rattle off the bands: Insted, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, CIV, Side by Side, Cro-Mags and Gorilla Biscuits!
Walter Schreifels can do no wrong in my book. Off his latest album, "An Open Letter to the Scene" comes his most poignant song yet as a songwriter. Enjoy this Pink Couch sessions from IfYouMakeIt.com
I think the Jade Tree, Saddle Creek and Crank! CDs that were sold so washed up folks like ourselves could afford car payments, getting through unemployment or the wife telling us to get rid of all that plastic. Regardless of the reason, 3 guys in Michigan City, Indiana have something figured out. Take some Lifetime, The Movielife, On The Might of Princes but throw in that Midwest flavor and you have a small idea. The songs I could find online were great and with a new album out in May, entitled "More Songs" and a tour in the UK, I hope the super swoops over there in England take a liking to something that actually resonates from real emo music. Maybe it hasn't become a bad word after all. Their label Big Scary Monster is also the UK home to Kevin Devine and Walter Schreifels.
If you haven't heard about their MP3 blog tour, go check out BearTrapPr.com RIGHT NOW! 10 blogs in 10 days are giving away songs off the album. Pre-order or buy the album from HERE!
Put in your head The Promise Ring, Braid and some Piebald. This is great honest music and something you should be listening to NOW instead of worrying about how you are going to see Ke$ha and Drake this weekend at Bamboozle 2010! Hopefully the last!
Great interview on why band and team did this HERE.
And if you are so lazy here is a video of a song by a band that interesting enough played MacRock this year, which years ago in Emo years, that festival got me into this music and where I found most bands I truly love today. Hats off to you Everyone Everywhere for rekindling that feeling. I feel better about music and this genre all over again.
“Great news yesterday. Just got an email from Nate from Sunny Day Real Estate/Foo Fighters… SDRE is recording A NEW RECORD IN MAY!!”
– KEXP 90.3 DJ Marco Collins tweets the good news (via Ear Candy) from Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Nate Mendel that the band will soon begin work on its first new studio album since 2000’s The Rising Tide. Preview a new song — currently titled just that — below. For additional road testing, check out the band’s four upcoming scheduled dates, which includes performances at Coachella and Primavera Sound.
Sunny Day Real Estate 2010 Tour Dates: 04/18 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival 04/22 – London, UK @ HMV Forum 04/23 – Meerhout, BE @ Grozerock 05/27-29 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
On his MySpace page, he lists influences that include Attack in Black but then lists Attack Attack which could be irony but I'm too old to know. Promising signs and hopefully this won't be Walking Concert.
SNL this past weekend referenced emo, showing a dog with an "emo" haircut. Check out the clip from Hulu which you should watch because I saved you the time with the clip already loaded up! I know, I'm a nice guy.
(HULU Deleted it)
In searching online I found a few more Emo Puppies...last one is a dog that needs a home for anyone willing to adopt.
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