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 ‘Taking Back Sunday’
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[...]
May 5th, 2009 - 12:10 am § in Perfect Lines
Bamboozled!
Tonight at Harpers Ferry, Enter Shikari‘s singer Rou had something rather stunning to say about performing at Bamboozle the previous day: “Every band sounded exactly the same.” There was more in that quote than just the one line, pretty much along the lines of how terrible all the [...]
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 [...]
December 25th, 2008 - 1:32 pm § in Perfect Lines
Merry X-Mas
Here are some interpretations of holiday classics by a couple o’ emo acts, and some interpretations of emo on Christmas day, some of which have been literally uploaded from YouTube within the past 24 hours or so (I apologize in advance if they are of poor quality – I’ll admit I hav[...]
July 15th, 2008 - 1:19 am § in Perfect Lines
Emotional About Environmentalism
Radiohead released the video for “House of Cards” early Monday morning. The video is not just a continuation of the band’s subvert-the-norm conceptualization through the use of the internet; it’s also a promotion of their inclinations towards positively affecting the environm[...]
July 6th, 2008 - 7:33 pm § in Perfect Lines
Taboo And Alphabets Too
Last night a bunch of my friends threw a show in their house… a comedy show that is. Whereas most young towns have a thriving music scene, the comedy community in Boston is everything that most insular scenes hope they can be; diverse, thriving, widespread, intimate, creative, and a network of[...]
A Word on Words
Hey folks, Gonna make this one quick and then I’m going to take the weekend off. I recently recieved a comment for my Coheed & Cambria post that was not only in poor taste, but horribly written, argued and against the entire point of this blog. This blog is about an openness towards the en[...]