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Five Notable Releases of the Week (9/29)
Torres (photo by Ashley Connor) Can you believe it’s the last weekend of September? Time really flies. October in NYC used to mean CMJ but now it means Mondo. (It also used to mean colder weather, and...
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Washed Up Emo preps book ft. interviews w/ American Football, Mineral,...
Our friends over at Washed Up Emo have been digging deep into emo’s past and present for a decade now, and founder Tom Mullen is celebrating the site’s 10th anniversary with a book, Anthology of Emo:...
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Racquet Club and Chris Broach’s SNST list their top LPs of 2017
As the year winds down, we’ve been asking some artists what their favorite albums of 2017 were, and here’s two more lists from two acts who come from ’90s emo. One is Racquet Club, the new...
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Samiam, Stick To Your Guns mems formed Ways Away, released debut LP (w/ Beach...
photo by Jon Weiner Ways Away is a new punk/post-hardcore band with some very familiar faces. Vocalist/guitarist Jesse Barnett (of Stick To Your Guns, Trade Wind, Wish You Were Here) writes the lyrics...
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new I Am The Avalanche song, Q&A, and 15 songs that influenced their new album
photo by Julian Gilbert Vinnie Caruana is always busy and, despite 2020 being plagued by a pandemic, this has been one of his busiest years in recent memory. He already put out new releases with his...
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Emo veterans Knapsack reissue all 3 albums with bonus tracks (exclusive vinyl...
West Coast emo vets Knapsack are reissuing all three of their classic albums on Spartan Records with bonus tracks, and we’ve got exclusive vinyl variants of each one. 1995’s Silver Sweepstakes comes...
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Knapsack’s Blair Shehan on the possibility of another reunion: “I would...
photo courtesy of the artist The latest episode of the BrooklynVegan podcast is an interview with Knapsack. Knapsack were initially around between 1993 and 2000, during which time they released three...
View ArticleJeff Caudill’s (Gameface, Low Coast) 10 favorite albums of 2023
Jeff Caudill of post-hardcore/emo vets Gameface released the debut album by his new band Low Coast this year, and with 2023 coming to a close, he has now made us a list of his favorite albums of the...
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New emo photobook coming w/ over 80 bands from the ’90s & 2000s (get a sneak...
Amy Fleisher Madden began leaving her mark on the music world as a teenager in the mid ’90s with her Florida-based fanzine Fiddler Jones, and in 1996–when Madden was 16–that turned into the launch of...
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The Fest adds Ergs reunion, Dillinger Four, Torche, Floor, Boysetsfire,...
Gainesville punk mecca The Fest recently announced its initial 2016 lineup and now more bands have been added. Excitingly, the lineup now includes a reunion from pop punk greats The Ergs! and the...
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Nomad Stones (mem Cave In) streaming debut LP, opening for Piebald
Nomad Stones Piebald will begin their reunion tour later this month, and openers have since been announced for most shows. Their Wrecking Ball aftershow is with Knapsack and Modern Baseball co-frontman...
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15 bands to see at Fest 15 (which is this weekend)
photo via The Fest Instagram It’s the end of October, so if you’ve noticed that all of your favorite punk bands are heading South (or are already there), it’s because The Fest is this weekend (and...
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The Jealous Sound are no more, members form Racquet Club
photo by Aaron Farley Blair Shehan’s post-Knapsack band The Jealous Sound returned from hiatus in 2009 to open Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour and they put out their long-awaited sophomore album A...
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Racquet Club (Jealous Sound, Knapsack) release first song, “Blood On The Moon”
photo by Aaron Farley Last month, The Jealous Sound revealed that they broke up and that frontman Blair Shehan and drummer Bob Penn would be continuing on with a new band, Racquet Club. Racquet Club,...
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Racquet Club (Jealous Sound/Knapsack) announce album & tour, share new song
The new Jealous Sound/Knapsack/Samiam offshoot Racquet Club have announced their debut album. It’s self-titled and it was produced by Alex Newport, who worked with both Knapsack and Samiam back in the...
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