Word: label
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Woolley played EverQuest for two years before his death, and his mother, who discovered her son's body when she came to get him for Thanksgiving, plans to sue Sony. Her attorney says the game was designed to be "as addictive as possible" and should have carried a warning label. Sony declines comment on the case...
...might be even bigger if anyone knew precisely how to define it. The standard line is that emo accentuates the emotional content of a song with screaming confessional lyrics over rising and falling guitars. "It's not music that follows any pattern," says John Szuch, founder of emo label Deep Elm Records, based in Charlotte, N.C. "Some of it's real accessible; some of it's not. Some of it's 10 minutes long and filled with all kinds of loud-soft dynamics, and some of it's just kind of normal." Carrabba puts it more succinctly: "I have...
Weezer is on a major label and has sold millions of albums, but despite these sins the band is beloved by emo fans, largely because Cuomo is an emo Everyman. After Weezer sold 3.9 million copies of its first two albums, Cuomo abandoned music, went to Harvard and put himself through an extremely painful surgery to even the lengths of his legs. When he realized that Harvard was not a cure for feelings of social inadequacy, Cuomo returned to Weezer and started banking song after song. What does Weezer's success prove? That emo kids--who pride themselves...
...hold on to our sons who don't know us and to hold on to their brothers who hate us. We fight to hold on to a family falling apart. There are no telethons for us. The outpouring of sympathy comes not from strangers but from doctors who may label our situation hopeless. We are grateful for articles such as yours that increase autism awareness and offer us a connection. LINDA ADAMS Sterling Heights, Mich...
Stigmatized by the “radical” label and even faced with threats of arrest, Temple staffers like Adio kept the paper afloat—campaigning for democracy by working underground...