Another day, another journalist seeks to kill a genre of music. Today’s suspect is news.com.au‘s Neala Johnson. The weapon – My Chemical Romance. What got the axe? Emo, of course: NO MORE angst. No more whingeing. No more playing the victim. When My Chemical Romance re-emerge in ea[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Andy Greenwald’
September 30th, 2009 - 11:25 pm § in Perfect Lines
Nothing Sounds Good If You're Andy Greenwald
This is why I cannot respect Andy Greenwald’s opinion on emo: Obviously, taste is taste. Opinion, opinion. But if this man is the guy who’s supposed to be the emo know-it-all (read: self-created title/Spin created title), I’m not buying it. The guy doesn’t seem to understand [...]
September 29th, 2009 - 8:59 pm § in Perfect Lines
Interview with Chris Simpson
It’s an absolute pleasure to bring Chris Simpson into the America Is Just A World fold. Part of my inclination for adding more interviews and material to what I’ve already written for the book is to really uncover the narratives that have been overlooked, and no band’s lifetime has[...]
September 9th, 2009 - 7:18 pm § in Perfect Lines
List-less Once Again
Another day, another quizzical top ten list. This time it’s curtsey of Justin Jacbos at Paste magazine, with a piece entitled “10 Bands That Prove That Emo Wasn’t Always For The Hot Topic Tween Set.” The newsworthiness of the piece is due to the two fall reunion tours by emo [...]
August 23rd, 2009 - 12:34 am § in Perfect Lines
Interview with Geoff Farina
I’d been meaning to post this up for quite a while, and here goes… I met up with Geoff Farina, frontman of the now-defunct and beloved band Karate, for an interview to be included in America Is Just A Word. Karate is one of a handful of bands that really challenged the ideals for what [.[...]
June 24th, 2009 - 7:04 pm § in Perfect Lines
SDRE + The Jealous Sound…
The Jealous Sound have confirmed a rumor I tracked down a little while ago: they are in fact touring with Sunny Day Real Estate and sharing bass players, one Nate Mendel. Whoa, is Mendel trying to one-up his bandmate Dave Grohl on the how-many-bands-can-I-perform-in-at-one-time? So far, Mendel’[...]
March 29th, 2009 - 9:43 pm § in Perfect Lines
Could Chuck?
Chuck Klosterman swung through Boston last week, doing a talk at the Hard Rock Cafe that was hardly publicized. But, perhaps I’m just not looking in the right places. I did a little piece for Bostonist on what I might have heard had I attended the event; check it out here. For most folks, Kl[...]
March 12th, 2009 - 10:55 pm § in Perfect Lines
America Is Just A Word: The Book
Last night, Public Enemy’s Chuck D dropped some knowledge at Harvard. Among the many insightful and brilliant things D had to say, one struck me in particular: “People need to write books. People need to write more books, now, more than ever. Write books and the cream will rise to the to[...]