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Sunny Day Real Estate

The Best Overlooked Albums Of The Aughts

December 27, 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 Overlooked Albums of the Aughts. A while back I started an ongoing feature called “Overlooked in … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: (k)no(w)here, +/-, A Name Writ in Water, A Story In White, Aereogramme, albums, Alias, All These Long Drives, All Together, Antelope, Apollo Sunshine, Aqueduct, art-punk, Beauty Pill, bedroom pop, Belly, best of, best overlooked albums of the aughts, best overlooked albums of the decade, Black Eyes, blogs, blues, bubblegum pop, By The Throat, Cave In, Cell-Scape, Central Hug, Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes, Chad VanGaalen, chamber-pop, Chino Moreno, country, D.C., dance punk, Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse & Jemini, Dartz! This Is My Ship, David Terry, Deftones, doo-wop, Double Dagger, dubstep, Duplomacy, Ear Pwr, Emblems, emo, Emperor X, Eyedea & Abilities, Fire Theft, folk, Food For Animals, Forest Fire, Friend Army/Fractal Dunes (And The Dreams That Resulted), funk, Ghetto Pop Life, Gomez, Gowns, Guns Babes Lemonade, Hardcore punk, Hella, hip-hop, HLLLYH, Hope of the States, Hrishhikesh Hirway, I Sold Gold, In Our Gun, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Interventions & Lullabies, Ire Works, Is This It, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, jam, jazz, Jemini, Karate, Let's Build A Fire, lo-fi, London Zoo, Low Level Owl Vol. 1, Low Level Owl Vol. 2, Lucero, Lungfish, Mapmaker, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, Mary Timony, matt pond PA, Melt-Banana, meme, metal, metalcore, Milosh, Mineral, minimalism, Movie Monster, Muscles, music, Night On Fire, noise rock, noise-punk, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Perfect Pitch Black, Personal Journals, Pinback, Pitchfork, Pitchfork effect, Plus/Minus, pop, pop-rock, post-disco, post-hardcore, post-punk, prog, Public Enemy, Putting The Days To Bed, Q And Not U, Ragged Rubble, rap, RCA, Red State, Reflector, Resurgam, Rhymesayers, Rob Crow, Sage Francis, slam poetry, slowcore, Soft Airplane, Sound Team, Southern rock, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Animal Brothers III, Survival, Team Sleep, That Much Further West, The Appleseed Cast, the aughts, The Bug, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, The Fire Theft, The Format, The Long Winters, The Lost Riots, The Mae Shi, The One AM Radio, The PoPo, The Rapture, The Strokes, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, Tiny Cities, twee, Unbeast the Leash, Unsolved, UUVVWWZ, VHS or Beta, Videohippos, Volcano I'm Still Excited!!, We The Vehicles, Wilderness, Zach Hill

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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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: ...is a Real Boy, A Decade Under The Influence, Abercrombie & Fitch, Achilles Heel, Algernon Cadwallader, Atmosphere, Bleed American, Brand New, Chris Carrabba, Coheed & Cambria, crunkcore, D.C., Dashboard Confessional, Dog Problems, Drive Like Jehu, emo, Emo: Where The Girls Aren't, emocore, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Fall Out Boy, Fugazi, Hardcore punk, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Jawbox, Jessica Hopper, Jimmy Eat World, Maritime, Monument, music, My Chemical Romance, New York Times, Owen, P.O.S., Pedro the Lion, Pop music, post-hardcore, Punk Planet, Rhymesayers, Rising Tide, Rolling Stone, Sage Francis, Say Anything, screamo, scrunk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, The Appleseed Cast, The Argument, The Format, The Get Up Kids, The Guilt Show, The Promise Ring, The Used, Thursday, Tim Burton, War All The Time, Warped Tour, Wood/Water

Pete Wentz is a genius

November 19, 2009 / Leave a Comment

It’s true… Pete Wentz is a genius. Or someone at Fall Out Boy camp has got it going on in their noggin. A smattering of break-up rumors cropped up online, fresh on the heels of the Tuesday release of the band’s greatest hits album Believers Never Die. Take the NME tweet from just yesterday: Fall … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Babyface, Believers Never Die, Elvis Costello, emo, Fall Out Boy, hiatus, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, music, My Chemical Romance, NME, Pete Wentz, pop-punk, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids, Twilight, Twitter

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

Interview with Chris Simpson

September 29, 2009 / Leave a Comment

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 the same mixture of mild coverage … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: America Is Just A Word: Post-Hardcore Emo and American Culture, Andy Greenwald, Austin, Boy's Life, Buffalo Tom, Chris Simpson, Christie Front Drive, Crank!, Denver, emo, Emo's, Gabriel Wiley, Huston, I The Worm, Jeremy Gomez, Knapsack, Michael Jackson, Mineral, music, Nothing Feels Good, Scott McCarver, Smashing Pumpkins, Sugar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Texas, Texas Is The Reason, The Catherine Wheel, The Gloria Record, The Power of Failing, The Promise Ring, Thriller, U2, Zookeeper

Hold The Phone, Buzzgrinder

September 25, 2009 / 2 Comments

Buzzgrinder whipped up a little post today about a new Sunny Day Real Estate album. I say “whipped up,” because they certainly embellished something. Here’s the “scoop”: Regular Buzzgrinderer Travis Lee dropped us a tasty tidbit. He just saw Sunny Day Real Estate in Minneapolis, and during the new song they’ve been playing on their reunion … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Buzzgrinder, emo, music, New Song, SDRE, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Boston Phoenix

On and On and On

September 23, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I wrote another piece for The Boston Phoenix, this time about… Sunny Day Real Estate. Whoda thunk it? For folks wondering about A) all the reunion hubub and why it’s happening 2) what’s the big deal with the band C) just how the band got back together and 3.14) the details of the reunion and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brian Perkins, Davey von Bohlen, emo, Jeremy Enigk, Jonathan Poneman, Marco Collins, Maritime, music, SDRE, Sub Pop, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Boston Phoenix, The Promise Ring

Video: SDRE – "10"/"New Song"

September 20, 2009 / Leave a Comment

For folks who want proof that a new Sunny Day Real Estate song exists, it’s been uploaded onto YouTube. YouTube user Jnuhjnuh (a spin on LP2‘s “J’Nuh”) captured the performance of what is believed to be called “10” at the band’s Portland show. Here’s the video: The audio quality ain’t the best, but you can … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 10, emo, J'Nuh, jnuhjnuh, LP2, music, Portland, SDRE, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Rising Tide, YouTube

SDRE Debut New Song In Vancouver

September 19, 2009 / Leave a Comment

According to Paste, Sunny Day officially debuted what is most likely referred to as “10” (aka their new song) at the tour kickoff in Vancouver. Here’s what they said about it: Only marginally less impressive was the debut of a new Sunny Day Real Estate number, appropriately titled “New Song,” where the guitars suggested someone has … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Baba O'Riley, emo, music, Paste, SDRE, Sunny Day Real Estate, Vancouver
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