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‘A Picture Postcard’ of Chicago venues, from a musician’s perspective

February 14, 2010 / Leave a Comment

View Davey von Bohlen’s Chicago shows in a larger map Milwaukee musician Davey von Bohlen has led the kind of musical career that must leave other artists teeming with jealousy. Since the early ’90s, Davey has performed in a variety of bands: Ten Boy Summer, Cap’n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Vermont and Maritime. Nearly all … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Behind the scene at shows, Featured Tagged: Cap'n Jazz, Chicago, Davey von Bohlen, emo, Maritime, Milwaukee, music, punk, Ten Boy Summer, The Promise Ring, Vermont

Valentine's Day Mix

February 13, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. What does that mean? Well, it means it’s time for a Valentine’s Day mix, of course! Below is a nice little mix of songs for VD 2010: 1. Electric Six – “Electric Demons in Love”: [youtubevid id=”cDGQTlJjCrg”] 2. Andre 3000 – “Happy Valentine’s Day”: [youtubevid id=”DYnzdj4EK1c”] 3. Nina … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Akron Family, Andre 3000, Burial, Electric Six, Friendly Fires, Hot Club de Paris, Jakobinarina, Matt Stone, music, Nina Simone, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, The Blow, The Monks, The Promise Ring, Tigers Jaw, Trey Parker, Valentine's Day

Video Friday: Cap'n Jazz – 'Oh Messy Life'

January 22, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The Internet has been buzzing with rumors of a potential Cap’n Jazz reunion since December. This week, the reunion picture got a little clearer. Jessica Hopper dropped a hint in the Chicago Reader that the rumors may come to fruition at the Joan of Arc Don’t Mind Control Variety Show at the Empty Bottle tonight. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: A Tundra, Bob Nanna, Braid, Cap'n Jazz, Dan Didier, Davey von Bohlen, Disappears, emo, Hey Mercedes, Jessica Hopper, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc Don\'t t Mind Control Variety Show, Kyle Ryan, Maritime, music, Owen, The A.V. Club, The Chicago Reader, The Empty Bottle, The Promise Ring, Tim Kinsella, Twitter

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

Interview with Darren Walters

October 18, 2009 / 1 Comment

I’m happy to post a selection from the ongoing email interview I’m having with one Darren Walters, co-founder of Jade Tree Records. As a majority of my America Is Just A Word interviewees happen to be musicians, it’s great having Darren on board to give some perspective of the other goings on that helped transform … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: America Is Just A Word: Post-Hardcore Emo and American Culture, Cap'n Jazz, Darren Walters, Dischord, emo, Fucked Up, Hot Water Music, Ian MacKaye, Jade Tree, Joan of Arc, Lifetime, music, My Morning Jacket, Pedro the Lion, Suburbia, Texas Is The Reason, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Promise Ring, Tim Owen

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

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

List-less Once Again

September 9, 2009 / 2 Comments

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 2nd wave forefathers Sunny Day … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 10 Bands That Prove That Emo Wasn't Always For The Hot Topic Tween Set, Andy Greenwald, At The Drive-In, Cursive, emo, Fugazi, Hot Topic, Justin Jacobs, Minor Threat, music, Nothing Feels Good, Paste, Rites of Spring, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, top ten list

Band Profile: Snowing

September 8, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon these guys from an article on punknews.org, and I’m glad I did. Snowing is a quartet out of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and they seem deeply into the Pennsylvania emo thing. Which, these days seems to be a resurgence of the kind of cataclysmic catharsis that Cap’n Jazz and early Promise Ring. It’s … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Band Profile Tagged: Algernon Cadwallader, Boy Problems, Cap'n Jazz, emo, Facebook, Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit, If You Make It, Pennsylvania, punknews.org, Sam Rudich, snowing, Street Smart Cyclist, The Promise Ring
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