Word: emo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...British guitar bands which most Americans never hear. Doves had their moment here (I even saw The Strokes open for them a couple of years ago), and Travis are known by connoisseurs of the mopey acoustic, but they are the elite in a genre as ubiquitous in Britain as emo was in the US. Americans don’t produce enough earnest strummings locally, so they import it from across the pond to meet the limited demand. What America does produce in abundance doesn’t often make for good export, though. Much less than gangsta rap, the American...
Boston indie band the Damn Personals headline. Attend for catchy, hummable tunes of the emo persuasion. Runner and the Thermodynamics, the Space Shots and American Car also perform. 9 p.m. $10; 18+. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street...
Thus, while you can marvel at the band’s artistic credibility and pin them with labels like emo or post-punk, you’d better be bobbing your head while you’re doing...
...with most bands the media labels “emo,” the Prom’s slower numbers are pretty but overly sentimental. Fortunately, they never reach the maudlin levels of more well-known bands such as Dashboard Confessional...
...doubts to the full impact of Slug’s work were quelled as the God Loves Ugly tour hit the Middle East. Brushing off notions that he is the rap equivalent of a whining emo boy, Slug lit the stage like a firecracker and had the hoodie-laden audience at his fingertips from the get-go. Sharing the limelight with fellow wordsmiths Blueprint and MURS (of Living Legends fame), he tore through a carefully orchestrated set of Atmosphere classics old and new, with the crowd belting out the choruses right along with him. The obligatory freestyle cypher was almost...