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April 26, 2013It's a confusing time to be an emo fan. My Chemical Romance recently called it quits, while Fall Out Boy, surprisingly, have the #1 album in the country. That album, however, is a far cry from the sound old heads remember from the Take This to Your Grave era. Bro, are you even emo anymore?
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January 16, 2013True art lives where no one is paying attention. Or probably not.
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August 15, 2012Sean Paul moves from the dance hall to Webster Hall
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August 13, 2012Texas is the Reason were and, recently, are a band. They formed in 1994 and released one self-titled EP and one full-length, Do You Know Who You Are?, on which they exemplified a kind of emo that was both anxious and circling—small, contained universes of songs that somehow managed to seem ope ... More >>
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July 23, 2012Warped Tour: Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Every time I Die, Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, and others.
Nassau Coliseum
Saturday, July 21
Better than: Last year.
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• The weather was beautiful; this year there was wind. Sunlight gently cascaded onto the grounds and sometimes r ... More >>
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July 18, 2012Blogs
May 18, 2012Mid-'90s emo institution The Promise Ring announced last year that they'd reunite to play a few scattered shows throughout 2012. The band, in its early days, combined the noisy and particulate ideas of guitarist/singer Davey von Bohlen's previous band Cap'n Jazz with more traditional punk constructi ... More >>
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May 1, 2012Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
The 2012 edition of The Bamboozle—the weekend-long festival of complete and utter overstimulation in the name of music and carnival rides—will take place May 18 through 20, and instead of being held in the parking lot of the Meadowlands' football stadium, as it has been for the past cou ... More >>
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October 26, 2011Blogs
September 12, 2011
Cobra Starship w/ Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., Versa Emerge and A Rocket To The Moon
Terminal 5
Friday, September 9
Better than: Facing the Fashion Week crowds.
Fueled By Ramen—the label that brought its particular brand of emo to the MTV mainstream in the mid-aughts thanks to the l ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Paramore w/ fun., The Stereo, The Swellers, and This Providence
Terminal 5
Wednesday, September 8
Better than: Getting soaked on the long walk back to the subway.
In one of the many shoutouts Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams directed toward her record label Fueled By Ramen—the emo-pop ma ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Honda Civic Tour: Blink 182/My Chemical Romance w/Alkaline Trio
Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
Sunday, August 7
Better than: A five percent chance of rain.
On the way to Jones Beach last night, leery of the weather that had cut short the final day of Escape To New York some 70 miles east, I checke ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Taking Back Sunday w/Thursday
Best Buy Theater
Sunday, July 17
Better than: Breaking up.
The Best Buy Theater seems hermetically sealed from Times Square—to enter it is to completely remove yourself from the heat, which, in July, introduces stasis to the blood. You are rewarded inside with ... More >>
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June 1, 2011Blogs
May 2, 2011So much to see, everywhere. The Bamboozle
Meadowlands
April 29-May 1, 2011
Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter.
In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Patrick Stump, Om'Mas Keith
Joe's Pub
Sunday, April 10
Better than: Watching
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October 13, 2010Rock stars can do more than just rock
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September 29, 2010Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you areSo Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>
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May 3, 2010
The Bamboozle
Meadowlands Parking Lot
Saturday, May 1
The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>
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December 10, 2009F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here.
A fine whine imported from Canada.
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December 8, 2009F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here.
Since emo already ruined rock music for a generation, why not just take rap too?
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November 24, 2009Blogs
October 22, 2009
Paramore
Hammerstein Ballroom
Wednesday, October 21
Paramore's Hayley Williams is 20-years-old, about five feet tall, and when she walks out in front of three or four thousand people she's serenely calm. On Tuesday, somebody gave her a gold plaque, for a record her band released four years ago, w ... More >>
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October 6, 2009Emo's Femme Fatale, Hayley Williams
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December 17, 2008Voice Choices
April 29, 2008Emo takes flight in the Meadowlands
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October 16, 2007Emo "elder" statesmen are dependably accessible, or not
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March 6, 2007Sarah Lewitinn has become New York’s premier tastemaker—and that's what makes the haterati squirm
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August 15, 2006Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material
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March 14, 2006Emo-metal extravaganza opts for spectacle over substance
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June 21, 2005Music
January 11, 2005Music
August 3, 2004Music
July 27, 2004Conceptually inclined emo kids' seriously absurd prog-metal fantasies hit the big time
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July 27, 2004Rhyming shit with itself vs. whining about your ex-girlfriend
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December 2, 2003Anticipatory asthenia bogart conundrum criminally spazzy zing: Look 'em up, suckers!
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October 7, 2003Music
July 10, 2001Music
September 26, 2000Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring
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