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The Decade In Emo

December 23, 2009 / 7 Comments

It was indeed “A Decade Under The Influence.” But while Taking Back Sunday could string together a few solid hits drenched in a post-hardcore milieu and cut with pop sensibilities, chances are no one in the band could have predicted how influential emo would become in the aughts. The presence of the word in the … [Read more…]

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The Best Albums of 2009

December 14, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The new year is almost here, and with it comes a maelstrom of “End of the Year Lists.” Here on Ex-Spectator, I’ll be rolling out a few “End of the Year”/”End of the Decade” lists. Today’s list: The Best Albums of 2009. As I’ve mentioned previously, there are a lot of pitfalls for “best of” … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Animal Collective, Attention Deficit, best albums of 2009, Bitte Orca, Brand New, Brandeis University, Bromst, Chums, Curse Your Branches, Daisy, Dan Deacon, Dananananaykroyd, David Bazan, Deastro, Dirty Projectors, electronica, emo, Family, Fuck Buttons, Future Of The Left, Grizzly Bear, Harlem Shakes, Hey Everyone, hip-hop, Hospice, indie, Japandroids, Jeremy Enigk, Jewellery, Merriweather Post Pavillion, Micachu & The Shapes, Mika Miko, Moondagger, music, Never Better, New Leaves, OK Bear, Owen, P.O.S., Phoenix, Post-Nothing, punk, R&B, rock, Say Anything, See Mystery Lights, Tarot Sport, Technicolor Health, The Antlers, The xx, These Four Walls, Think About Life, Travels With Myself And Another, Veckatimest, Wale, We Be Xuxa, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, YACHT

Fashion Fallout

October 5, 2009 / 5 Comments

When little kids get their first haircut, there’s usually crying involved. When Pete Wentz gets his hair cut (or shaven?), the crying apparently stops: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6-BE5XZIQ] Take to the messageboards, Facebook feeds, and Twitter tweets, you FOB fanatics out there! Wentz has proven to be something of an intelligent individual in music: his lyrics have the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Blink-182, Brand New, Brian Peterson, Burning Fight, College Board, Death of Autotune, death of the emo haircut, emo, Fall Out Boy, fashion, Jay-Z, Mark Hoppus, music, Pete Wentz, punk

Clipzzz

September 30, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Finally scanned these babies. Facebook them. Twitter them. Love them.

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brand New, emo, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Boston Phoenix

Nothing Sounds Good If You're Andy Greenwald

September 30, 2009 / 2 Comments

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 the impulse that emo acts have towards evolution, probably … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar, Andy Greenwald, Brand New, Chris Carrabba, Daisy, Diary, emo, Hands Down, music, Northing Feels Good, Spin magazine, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring, Wood/Water

Daisy

September 16, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I wrote a little review of the forthcoming album from Brand New for The Boston Phoenix. It can be hard to write reviews in just 250 words or less, and Brand New’s album is no exception to that: I spent a large part of the time merely outlining the band’s history and why I felt … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brand New, Daisy, emo, music, The Boston Phoenix, The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me, The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows

New Brand New – "At The Bottom"

August 10, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Brand New placed a song off their upcoming album, Daisy, on Myspace within the last 12 hours. Here’s a YouTube link: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdalwKs7Puo]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: At The Bottom, Brand New, Daisy, emo, music, Myspace, YouTube

Brand New tour dates

July 29, 2009 / Leave a Comment

A little email post for all y’all (ok, I won’t do that again). Brand New have released a set of tour dates in support of their forthcoming album, Daisy. If the album is anything like what The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me offers, it is sure to end up one of my favorite albums … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brand New, Daisy, emo, Glassjaw, Manchester Orchestra, music, The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me, Thrice

Guitar Hero 5: Emo Edition

June 1, 2009 / 2 Comments

Guitar Hero, the popular musical-video game phenomenon is coming out with its fifth volume. And it might as well be called the “Emo Edition.” Or the Indie Edition… One fits with the other. While the new version of Guitar Hero (GH5) if you will, has the regular mainstream-rock fare, it’s jam packed with many an … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Activision, Anarchy In The UK, Arctic Monkeys, Band of Horses, Brand New, Elliott Smith, emo, GH5, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero 5, Heatmiser, indie, Jimmy Eat World, Mark Lanegan, music, Nearly Lost You, Oscars, Screaming Trees, Spacehog, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Duke Spirit, the Sex Pistols, Thrice, TV On The Radio, Vampire Weekend, video games, Weezer

Want To Write A Book About Your Favorite Band?

December 27, 2008 / 3 Comments

Continuum’s 33 1/3 series is by far the best collection of books on rock records… In fact, it’s pretty much the only one that continually publishes works on a strong range of albums. They’ve gotten a strong showing on numerous “best of” listings for 2008 for a number of books on records such as Black … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 33 1/3 book series, Black Sabbath, Brand New, Celine Dion, Continuum, emo, John Darnielle, Let's Talk About Love, Master of Reality, music, Pinkerton New Years Eve, Say Anything, the Mountain Goats, Thrice, Weezer
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