Word: emo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...uses music to cure its audience from a chronic malady—a boring music collection. Long into the night, 10 p.m. - 5 a.m., Monday through Friday, and Sunday nights from 12 a.m. - 5 a.m., a crowd of nocturnal Harvard DJs rock the Boston airwaves with underground hardcore, punk, emo, electronica, noise and other equally non-mainstream genres...
...samples some of the albums he’s chosen as he gives me a 10 minute crash-course on emo, hardcore and noise music, using quirky adjectives like “sludgy,” “fuzzy” and “aesthetically interesting.” He’s known that he wanted to DJ since before he came to Harvard and, with typical pre-frosh eagerness, emailed the folks at WHRB before he even came to Cambridge...
Cellar Door’s not-quite-emo won’t be a problem for everyone—Vanderslice is the kind of guy who makes every mopey English concentrator’s day by adapting Shelley for his lyrics, rediscovering British Romantics as proto-Obersts. But as perfectly-crafted as each individual song is, listening to the full album makes you want to remind Vanderslice not to forget to be cool, in that distant, disaffected sense of the word. Sometimes caring too much is a bad thing...
...good time seem dangerously limited to drunkenness (The Strokes), public exposure (Janet) and grevious bodily harm (Jack White), OK Go prefer to make audiences giggle. Their eponymous album, released in late 2002, isn’t particularly gripping—a series of sunny pop songs equally influenced by emo and the retro-chic of bands like The Apples in Stereo. But OK Go, like all bands worth their salt, come into their own when playing live...
Blanks.—last year’s emo-punk freshman phenoms—just opened for the North Mississippi All Stars at Loker Lecture Hall last Saturday. Having established a strong following, the band is retreating from the spotlight this term to rehearse and write new material...