Showing posts with label Dashboard Confessional. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

EMO ?

What is Emo?

The emo, or emotional punk movement, is a form of social/emotional ideas, feelings and mannerisms.


What is Emo Music?

This from of music is a mixture of metal and rock music. Generally, any band that displays their emotions, by screaming, crying, or shouting, is considered to be an emo band.
This is also found in the lyrics of many of these band. What are the names of some of these bands? The names of these bands include Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, and Thrice.


When did Emo Music Begin?

The emo movement began in the 1980’s, in Washington, D.C., with bands like Embrace, Moss Icon, and Rites of Spring.
Although, emo music was popular in the 1980’s, however, by the early 90’s, people turned away from it. This would not last long, as new hardcore and rock music bands brought emo music back to life with adding a melodic rhythm to it – which was targeted towards young people.


What is Emo Fashion?

Emo fashion and dress is very unique and is outside of mainstream clothing. Anything form of dress that is odd and unique is considered emo. An example of this is wearing old t-shirts or t-shirts of emo bands.


What is Emo Hair?

Hair is the lifeblood of emo culture. This is how emos separate themselves from the norms of general society. Emo hairstyles consist of jet black hair, hair with multicolor highlights, or multicolored hair with no highlights. These hairstyles usually come with long or medium bangs that cover one side the face, particularly over an eye.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

EMO BANDS

Emo Bands

The Emo culture, in bands, started in the mid 80s, which was termed as subgenre of hardcore punk music. As the bands began to emerge and became more prominent, emocore carved its own identity. Emocore described as emotional hardcore music, a term used used to categorize the emotional performances of bands like the Rights of Spring, One Last Wish, Gray Matter, and Fire Party among others.

Dashboard Confessional

By the mid 90s, the emo wave had grown with its own fan following. Bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Far, and Texas Is the Reason popularized the indie rock touch to emocore. This wave died gradually towards the late 90s when many popular bands disbanded or shifted to other streams of music.

Death Cab for Cutie Concert

The emo wave resurfaced in the 2000s with some bands promoting it. Notably Chris Carrabba stood out in successfully projecting the growing emo scene. As the emo world grew and became associated with fashion trends, bands loosely associated with emo or displayed emotional performances came under the group of emo bands.

Patrick Wolf

Contrary to the past precedence of identifying emo bands that strictly followed emo culture, currently the emo band group has a vast variety and emo has become a rather loose identifier of genre music. Popular emo bands include the Panic at the Disco, Paramore, Matchbook Romance, Moss Icon, City of Caterpillar, Rites of Spring, Poison the Well, The Rocket Summer, Tomorrow's Last Hero, Senses Fail.

Cansei de Ser Sexy

Some of the Indie genre bands with emo appeal are Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Straylight Run, Cursive, Patrick Wolf, Beep Beep, North of America, The Driveway, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Elliott Smith, The Summer Obsession, The Scene Aesthetic.