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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dashboard Confessional’
November 27th, 2009 - 3:59 am § in True/Slant
Australian news site tries to kill emo, fails
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[...]
September 4th, 2009 - 1:56 am § in Perfect Lines
List-less
Isn’t it a little to early for those end-of-the-year or end-of-the-decade critics list? Didn’t September just roll around? August hadn’t even ended before Pitchfork rolled out it’s top singles of the 2000s. Doesn’t it all seem a little too, well, soon? It’s still [...]
July 27th, 2009 - 12:01 am § in Perfect Lines
Taking Back Sunday at Government Center
It’s hard to turn down a free concert, even if that means watching Taking Back Sunday. Especially considering the underlying theme o’ this blog. I’ve never been entirely “in” to TBS. Just something about them never really caught me, even though I was their prime target[...]
July 23rd, 2009 - 12:57 am § in Perfect Lines
Neon Shirt
Saw the above t-shirt at Warped on Tuesday. It may just be a shirt, but nowadays fashion is oft as important – if not the important – as the music that a band chooses to define itself. In My So Called Punk, Matt Diehl notes the clashes between “emo” kids and traditional R[...]
February 15th, 2009 - 11:16 pm § in Perfect Lines
Just Short…
So, for folks who’ve been following along in this blog, I submitted a proposal to Continuum’s 33 1/3 series to write a book about The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good. Series editor David Barker emailed everyone who submitted a proposal today concerning those he picked to make it [...]
August 28th, 2008 - 12:01 am § in Perfect Lines
Not Another Post About Movies
I think “dumbfounded” would be the best way to described how I felt after watching this trailer: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnHllNDcv4A&feature=related] Yep. Somewhere along the line, I guess this had to happen. David Zucker, the man responsible for bringing absurdity-th[...]
August 21st, 2008 - 1:51 am § in Perfect Lines
Rock N' Roll Post-Graduates
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1001xArPVk] They really don’t make ‘em like this anymore. That was one of many thoughts that jumped in my brain while watching Rock N’ Roll High School the other day. Camp doesn’t even begin to describe it. Joyful absurdity. Now that m[...]
July 24th, 2008 - 12:15 am § in Perfect Lines
What a Beardo
Big news out of Belgrade this past Monday, where war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was captured after years of “living in hiding.” Karadzic was thought to be hiding out in a cave, but had been living in disguise under the name Dragan Dabic. While Karadzic committed some hainus crimes,[...]