Tag Archives: Emo

“Groove-oriented emprise brushed with tones of Get Like Jehu and grounded within a rocking emo sensibility” starts to characterize Engine Down’s music demeanor. The quartet fulfilled in Harrisonburg, VA, before getting into an eastward migration towards the Virginia capital of Richmond. Made up of previous associates of Sleepytime Trio, the …

Castor broke through in 1995 just like fellow Champaign-Urbana, IL, artwork rockers Hum made their major-label debut. While Hum liked more reputation by keeping marginally inside the bounds of simple rock and roll, Castor pressed the limitations of roomy, experimental music on the self-titled debut, getting a tour using the …

Formed at an area record store in 1999 in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, this band of high-school bandmates originally dubbed themselves Hindsight before changing their name to Soma Vacation. A self-released, self-titled record implemented that same calendar year and garnered an area buzz in the region. But …

Just frontman Chris Higdon remains from the initial lineup of Elliott, a Louisville emo band known because of its extreme stage presence, replete with piano and percussion samples. Higdon, bassist Jonathan Mobley, and drummer Ben Lord produced Elliott following the break up of their prior band, Falling Forwards. After launching …

Previously referred to as Riverfenix, the Houston-based group Fenix TX includes singer/guitarists Will Salazar and Chris Lewis, bassist Adam Lewis, and drummer Damon Delapaz (ex-30 Foot Fall). Riverfenix shaped in 1995, but because of a moving lineup didn’t play or write very much until the pursuing year. 1997 noticed the …

Underground indie rock and roll heroes Earwig were shaped in the first ’90s in Columbus, Ohio by singer/guitarist Lizard McGee. After recruiting bassist Jeff Perkins and drummer Chuck Palmer, the initial trio slice a five-song EP in 1992 known as Dead Sluggish Hoot that launched their make of melodic however …

New Jersey’s Zero Hollywood Finishing released their initial full-length album, It’s All a Problem, in 2004, introducing punk fans with their throat-shredding cross types of metallic and hardcore (with intermittent melodic choruses) that could sometimes be in comparison to a music group like Avenged Sevenfold. In the years that implemented …

This band formed in 1999 in Mesa, AZ, when lead singer David Jensen and guitarist Hans Ringger joined forces. Both got attended senior high school collectively and then do some journeying before starting up once again. Citing Fugazi as well as the DIY ethos as main affects, Before Braille gradually …

Formed in nov 1994 in the city of Harrisonburg, VA, Sleepytime Trio originally contains members Drew Ringo (guitar), Ben Davis (bass), and Jonathan Fuller (drums). A 12 months later on, it became a quartet with the help of second guitarist Dave Nesmith (he and Ringo experienced previously been users in …

Predicated on their root base and their hometown, it isn’t astonishing that Chicago’s Joan of Arc mix post-rock’s atmospherics and punk’s volume and dynamics. Vocalist/guitarist Tim Kinsella, drummer Mike Kinsella, and bassist Sam Zurick originated from the emocore music group Cap’n Jazz; when that music group split up, the trio …