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This page is about the musical genre of emo as it existed from 1985 to the late 90s.

See Emo (disambiguation) for other uses of the term Emo.

Emo is a genre that is an offshoot of hardcore punk. The term was initially short for "emotional hardcore" and was coined to describe the music of the mid-1980s D.C. scene and associated bands, mainly Rites of Spring, Embrace, Beefeater, Grey Matter, Fire Party and slightly later, Moss Icon. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Emo may refer to: The Emo music genre. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... New Brunswick is a city located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a popular term that refers to electric and acoustic basses - stringed instruments similar in design to the guitar, but with longer scale and tuned lower in pitch. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... Hardcore Emo is a style of music that existed primarily in the early-mid 90s, also known as emo violence or chaos emo. The first hints of the sound began with bands like Merel and Iconoclast on the East Coast, but it is considered to have primary started in 1991... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Screamo is a music style that developed out of emo, more specifically hardcore emo, in the early 1990s. ... Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ... Known (increasingly wrongly) as emo (or faux-emo), but more properly termed pop hardcore or popcore, this style of music is a radio and MTV friendly version of hardcore punk. ... The music of Washington D.C. is known for two primary scenes, hardcore and associated derivatives and a hip hop-dance music hybrid called go go. ... New Brunswick is a city located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ... This is a timeline of alternative rock, from its beginnings in the 1970s to the present. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The music of Washington D.C. is known for two primary scenes, hardcore and associated derivatives and a hip hop-dance music hybrid called go go. ... Rites of Spring was a punk rock band from Washington, D.C., often cited as pioneering the emocore movement. ... Embrace was an emocore band from Washington, D.C. from the summer of 1985 to the spring of 1986. ... This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The story is about the gradual possetion of an alchoholic by a grey worm that was at the bottom of a beer bottle he was guzzling. ... Fire Party were a hardcore band from Washington D.C.. They were together from the autumn of 1986 to the spring of 1990. ... Moss Icon was an Annapolis, Maryland punk rock band from 1986 to 1991. ...

Since then, its usage has gone through several stages and has come to be generally accepted as meaning "emotive" or "emotionally charged", when used at its most positive.

However, many acts and fans consider the word itself a pejorative because none of the members of the originating bands invented the term itself, nor ever purposely applied it to themselves. The label was applied by outside critics or journalists. A word or phrase is pejorative or derogatory (sometimes misspelled perjorative) if it expresses contempt or disapproval; dyslogistic (noun: dyslogism) is used synonymously (antonyms: meliorative, eulogistic, noun eulogism). ...

Thrasher, a slick skater magazine had dubbed the city's new punk sound "emo-core." Although the singer (Ian MacKaye of Embrace) called this "the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of," the name would stick. Driven in part by this tag, a new stereotype would replace the old image of D.C. punks as drug-free macho baldies: tortured ascetic/romantics crying at the drop of a hat.

It was applied as a description for bands that express emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. The term addressed both the way the band connected with its audience, as well as its tendency to deal more with topics of personal and relationship politics than with the standard themes of rock music. Embrace was an emocore band from Washington, D.C. from the summer of 1985 to the spring of 1986. ...

Unlike most hardcore lyricists, Picciotto (of Rites of Spring) wrote about love, but in multi-leveled ways that allowed and even encouraged wider interpretation. The band's performances expressed this broader emotional scope. In the place of unfocused anger, they had a soulful passion that suggested that any given song could be about the end of a relationship - of the beginning of a new world.

Such songs were anguished, but not self-pitying. "i am serious and i deal with realistic things [but the music] is not despairing," the lyricist said. "It's a constant friction between what you see and what you want ot achieve, the things you know are right. That rub is what creates the pain and the emotion. Then there's the hope that maybe you can overcome it. It's the same personally and politically. To me, it's all one issue."

Therefore, in recent times however, moreso than with most other musical genres, the term "emo" has been subject to social perception above objective guidelines. What bands are or aren't emo is therefore highly subjective and contested amongst those with an interest in the genre. In some ways, it has ceased to describe a certain era or set of bands, or even bands influenced by those bands but has become somewhat of a caricature of itself. As a result the term emo has several uses; as a label for the genres outlined above, and as a multi-purpose adjective and umbrella term used to describe a large cross-section of music and popular culture.

Most recently (from 2002 to present) bands with relationship-lyric driven songs have been mistakingly called emo because their lyrics seem to be depressing and focus on hatred and broken hearts. These bands would more correctly described as pop hardcore, as they borrow from several genres as diverse as classic DC emo and 80s hair metal, but mainly from melodic hardcore of the mid 90s -- putting a pop-friendly twist on an previous formula. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is what happens when the shit hits the fan ... For the emotion Hatred please see Hate Hatred (Nenavist) is a Soviet film of 1975 directed by Samvel Gasparov. ... Known (increasingly wrongly) as emo (or faux-emo), but more properly termed pop hardcore or popcore, this style of music is a radio and MTV friendly version of hardcore punk. ... Melodic hardcore, a subgenre of hardcore punk, albeit one with more melodic leanings than the slightly more one-dimensional sound and fury of traditional hardcore. ...

History

Origins

Some roots of the emo style can be traced to two seminal bands of the post-punk era. In 1983, Mission of Burma's album VS did much to expand rock beyond its original constraints while still retaining its raw emotional punch. In 1984, Hüsker Dü's album Zen Arcade established what is considered by some to be the definitive blueprint for emo: simple, raw guitar-oriented music with intense vocals and deeply introspective songwriting -- although Hüsker Dü were probably more influential on later melodic hardcore bands as they were on the emerging DC bands. The roots of original emo can also be heard in Minor Threat's final 7", a slowed down approach with more personal and doubting lyrics, instead of pushing a specific message. In fact, the music to Embrace's "Last Song" was actually practiced by Minor Threat, but was never performed live. Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mission of Burma Vs LP cover Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts comprised of guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hüsker Dü was an influential rock music group from Minneapolis/St. ... Minneapolis Hüsker Düs third (fourth if you count the live album, Land Speed Record) full length album released in 1984. ... Melodic hardcore, a subgenre of hardcore punk, albeit one with more melodic leanings than the slightly more one-dimensional sound and fury of traditional hardcore. ...

In Washington, D.C., Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, veterans of the hardcore music scene there, were developing new ventures. Due to the constraints of the basic style of hardcore they played, as well as in response to escalating violence in a scene (they themselves had helped create, but had increasingly become out of hand) they reshaped their music in different directions and brought forth MacKaye's Embrace and Picciotto's Rites of Spring. Embrace and Rites of Spring started the classic DC Emo-Core sound and influenced other bands such as Moss Icon, Nation of Ulysses, Dag Nasty, Shudder To Think, Fire Party, Marginal Man, Grey Matter and many other mid-to-late 80s bands that Dischord Records released. In the summer of 1985, this renewed spirit of experimentation and musical innnovation came to be known as "Revolution Summer". Sometimes the groups from this era are referred to as "Revolution Summer bands", either to specifically describe the era, or to distance them from later, more muddied definitions of the word "emo" itself. The original wave of DC emo-core finally ended in late 1992 with the collapse of Hoover. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C. (short for, District of Columbia), Washington, the Nations Capital, the District or, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. ... Ian Mackaye Ian MacKaye (pronounced Mc-Eye) (b. ... Guy Picciotto is a punk rock singer and guitar player from Washington DC. He is most famous for his role in the band Rites of Spring (which broke up during the 1980s), and his current band, Fugazi. ... Embrace was an emocore band from Washington, D.C. from the summer of 1985 to the spring of 1986. ... Rites of Spring was a punk rock band from Washington, D.C., often cited as pioneering the emocore movement. ... Moss Icon was an Annapolis, Maryland punk rock band from 1986 to 1991. ... Nation of Ulysses is a indie/emo band formed in 1988 in Washington, D.C. One of the best-loved bands on the Dischord record label, the Nation of Ulysses are best remembered for lifting the motor-mouthed revolutionary rhetoric of the MC5 and blowing it up to an elaborate... Dag Nasty was a punk/hardcore band formed in 1985 by Brian Baker (guitar) of Minor Threat, Colin Sears (drums) and Roger Marbury (bass), both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and Shawn Brown (vocals). ... Shudder to Think are a difficult band to pigeonhole. ... Fire Party were a hardcore band from Washington D.C.. They were together from the autumn of 1986 to the spring of 1990. ... The story is about the gradual possetion of an alchoholic by a grey worm that was at the bottom of a beer bottle he was guzzling. ... Dischord founders Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ...

Progression of the genre

In the early 90s, as the late 80s hardcore revival (mainly straight edge youth crew based) found itself losing steam, many of its participants either dropped from site or continued to evolve into new sounds. Many bands were experiencing the same feelings that inspired the original DC "revolution summer" bands - lack of creativity, progression and too much violence in the scene. Because of this, the seeds of the mid to late 80s emo sound were showing themselves in several different directions across the country, expressed regionally, but all springing from the same roots and existing concurrently. History has shown many of these bands to end up being classified in non-emo genres, some as just another variation of "indie rock", although at the time they were all grouped under the same banner of "emo" since no one really knew what to properly call them. For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ... Youth crew is a sub-genre of hardcore punk that was most popular from approximately 1986 to 1990, primarily in New York City and, to a lesser degree, Los Angeles. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...

In the early 1990s, a new derivative emerged out of the more crazy and dramatic leanings of the DC sound, called variously "chaotic emo", "screamo", "Emo Violence" and "hardcore emo" (which is something of a tautology as "emo" is short for "emotional hardcore" in the first place). In California, Gravity records from San Diego released many defining records of this style. Significant emo bands from this time include Heroin, Angel Hair, Antioch Arrow, Univeral Order of Armageddon, Swing Kids, and Mohinder. In the New York/New Jersey era, bands such as Native Nod, Merel, 1.6 Band, Rye Coalition and Rorschach were feeling the same impulse. The record labels Gern Blandsten and Troubleman released many of the influential records from that region and era. Many of these bands were involved with the ABC No Rio club scene in New York, itself a response to the violence and stagnation in the scene and with the bands that played at CBGBs, the only other small venue for hardcore in New York at the time. Contemporary screamo bands include Circle Takes The Square and Saetia. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... Screamo is a music style that developed out of emo, more specifically hardcore emo, in the early 1990s. ... Emo Violence, also related to Hardcore Emo, is a subgenre of music that evolved from Emo in the early 1990s, primarly in San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston. ... Hardcore Emo is a style of music that existed primarily in the early-mid 90s, also known as emo violence or chaos emo. The first hints of the sound began with bands like Merel and Iconoclast on the East Coast, but it is considered to have primary started in 1991... In logic, a tautology is a statement which is true by its own definition. ... Angel hair is an alleged substance of unknown origin, said to emanate from UFOs after they fly overhead. ... Antioch Arrow, from California, was on the seminal handcore/emo label Gravity Records, responsible for putting San Diego on the map in the mid-90s as one of the epicenters of the movement. ... ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington street in New York Citys Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. ... CBGB, also CBGBs or CBs is a legendary club in the Manhattan Bowery district of New York City, New York. ... Biography A New York City-based Screamo band that is often considered one of the definitive groups of the genre. ...

The early 90's the aformentioned area created an explosion of bands feeding off new musical blood. Some of the bands associated with influencing this wave were: Indian Summer, Evergreen, Current, Shotmaker, Portraits of Past, and Julia. These bands eventually became what is known as simply "emo", a style which intensified the dramatic aspects of vocal performances in order to achieve a cathartic breakthrough with the audience. Their music backgrounds may have been different, Julia and Evergreen both soft and deep produced some of the richest emo sounds, while Shotmaker railed off hardcore punk and found their niches in the brutal honesty of the human voice. Done well, the result was powerful emotional release that often left emo bands and their audiences crying or screaming or very quiet at the end of performances. While effective, such open displays of emotion made many traditional hardcore fans uncomfortable, and caused much friction between the two camps. Indian Summer was an early, influential emo band from Oakland, California. ... Portraits of Past was a emo hardcore band from the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Catharsis is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for living. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ...

Continuing the direct line to the DC sound, many bands around the country in the early 90s were still influenced by Fugazi's initial EP releases and playing a style based directly on them. The most notable of these are SF's Fuel, NJ's Greyhouse, as well as Gauge and Friction out of the midwest (later to have members evolve into such notables as Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Braid and Hey Mercedes).

In California, in the Bay Area, bands like Jawbreaker and Samiam were mixing the DC influence with pop punk to come up with their own take on the classic DC emo-core sound. These bands tended to employ alot of the rough vocal stylings associated with Ian MacKaye's bands. The vocals of Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker are particuarly of interest because of his more gruff crooning than gruff yelling. This development lead to a more emotional feeling of loss than the desparation and franticness of MacKaye's voice. On Jawbreaker's album Bivouac, there was an evolution from traditional Hardcore vocal sound into a more melodic crooning, regardless of whether or not the vocalist was in tune, the vocalist attempted to embody raw emotion of the music. In Southern California, Still Life was doing their own take on the same ideas of rough melody. NJ's Garden Variety also did their own Jawbreaker-esqe combination of emo and rough indie pop/pop punk. This style has continued to evolve up to present day in the sound of bands like Avail and Hot Water Music. Samiam was a punk/post-punk band from San Francisco, CA formed in 1988. ... Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and... Jawbreaker can refer to the following: A hard, usually round, candy that one sucks on. ... A bivouac is a temporary military encampment that is usually formed in an unsheltered area. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... Avail is a punk/rock/post-hardcore band hailing from Richmond, Virginia. ... Hot Water Music is a post-hardcore/rock band from Gainesville, Florida. ...

Closer to the mid 1990s, and concurrent to the above-mentioned "chaos emo" bands, a different scene was developing in new directions from some of the same roots. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Elliott, Christie Front Drive, Get Up Kids, Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring and Mineral explored a more moderately paced form of emo that mixed the early emo sound of Rites of Spring with the post-hardcore innovation of Fugazi and Quicksand. The musical genre that best describes Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get-Up Kids early work, Jimmy Eat World's early work, as well as Elliot and Christie Front Drive is midwestern emo due to many of these bands coming from middle-America. The term Post Emo has also been used, despite many of these bands falling squarely into the "emo" camp of the era. The blueprint for this twinkly sound can very much be heard in the 1994 album by Sunny Day Real Estate, "Diary". Sunny Day Real Estate performing early in their career Sunny Day Real Estate or SDRE was an alternative rock band formed in Seattle, Washington. ... Elliott may refer to: Elliott, Iowa Elliott, North Dakota Elliott, Illinois This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American emo band. ... Capn Jazz were a seminal Chicago emo/punk band, locally very popular in the early 1990s. ... The Promise Ring is an emo band started as a side project by Davey vonBohlen during his time as guitar player for Capn Jazz. ... Mineral is an Austin, Texas emo band. ... Rites of Spring was a punk rock band from Washington, D.C., often cited as pioneering the emocore movement. ... Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ... Alternate meanings: Fugazi (disambiguation) Fugazi (left to right): Ian MacKaye, Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, and Guy Picciotto Fugazi is a post-hardcore group from Washington, D.C., formed in 1987. ... Quicksand were one of the most influential New York post-hardcore bands of the early to mid-90s, led by Gorilla Biscuits mastermind/guitarist Walter Schreifels. ... The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American emo band. ... Jimmy Eat World promotional photograph, c. ...

Also in the early 90s, hardcore kids in bands like Lifetime were reacting in their own way to the demise of youth crew styled straight edge hardcore and desire to seek out new directions. While their music is often classified as "emo", a better description would probably be melodic hardcore. In response to the more metal direction their hardcore peers were taking, Lifetime initially decided to slow their music down and make it softer with more personal lyrics. A couple of EPs and an lp were released in this style, which was appreciated by some, but not hugely successful. The band went back to the drawing board and then really hit their stride with the Tinnitus ep in 1994, which was a blend of speed, aggression and melody which would inform and be further refined on their next two albums, Hello Bastards and Jerseys Best Dancers. Hello Bastards draws the line directly back to pre-melodic hardcore innovators Husker Du, by covering "It's Not Funny Anymore". These records cannot be underestimated as their sound, lyrics and style were a virtual blueprint for late 90s pop-hardcore bands Saves The Day and The Movielife. Lifetime's influence continues to be felt in a huge way. Lifetime was a melodic hardcore band from New Jersey. ... Melodic hardcore, a subgenre of hardcore punk, albeit one with more melodic leanings than the slightly more one-dimensional sound and fury of traditional hardcore. ... Saves the Day is an emo/indie rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, known for its punk roots. ...

Modern usage of the term "emo"

Today, the term "emo" is increasingly ambiguous, and is often used disparagingly to describe something that is overly sentimental or melodramatic, and is used in a similar way to the usage of "gay" as a derogatory adjective. The term "emo kid" is often used as an insult aimed at people who dress in a way based upon emo fashion, or who listen to music considered to be "emo". This is similar to the term "goth" being used as a pejorative aimed at those who were involved in the nu metal trend. It is commonplace for people to refer to themselves or others as "emo" or "emo kids" now. Some claim that this is done to remove the negative connotations of the term, disenfranchising it, similar to the usage of the term nigga by many African-American rap artists (though the level of negativity that has been associated with the term "emo" is in no way comparable with that of the "N-word"). Others, mostly veterans or fans of the original emo sound, or those sometimes referred to as "emo" but who consider the term a pejorative, believe that usage of the term in this constant is the product of ignorance of the actual meaning or connotations of the word "emo" amongst those who use it self-referentially. A goth girl as seen on the satirical cartoon, South Park. ... Nu metal (or aggro metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music. ... The word nigger is an extremely controversial term used in many English-speaking countries, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia to refer to individuals with dark skin, especially those of African descent who previously were racially classified by the term Negro. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or blacks, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West Africa. ... Rap may refer to one of the following: Rap or rap music is commonly used as a synonym for the musical genre of hip hop music Rapping is a form of rhythmically delivered rhyming lyrics; it is one of the elements of hip hop culture, as well as the distinguishing... The word nigger is an extremely controversial term used in many English-speaking countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia (but also in other countries where English is known such as Germany, specifically) to refer to individuals with dark skin, especially those of African descent who previously... A word or phrase is pejorative or derogatory (sometimes misspelled perjorative) if it expresses contempt or disapproval; dyslogistic (noun: dyslogism) is used synonymously (antonyms: meliorative, eulogistic, noun eulogism). ...

``Nobody in their right mind wants to be called emo, Pryor (of the Get Up Kids) said. ``It's got such a whiny connotation that everybody's like, `We are not an emo band.' I think a lot of these bands are going to get bigger, but I don't think the movement will be anything monumental when we look back at it.

With the success of rock bands such as The Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World and The Promise Ring, the music industry has promoted a series of successful, emo-influenced bands. The term has come to be used in conjunction with a vast array of pop hardcore bands who some believe are incorrectly labeled as "emo" by large media conglomerates as a tactic to sell records to teenagers. The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American indie rock band. ... Jimmy Eat World promotional photograph, c. ... The Promise Ring is an emo band started as a side project by Davey vonBohlen during his time as guitar player for Capn Jazz. ... Known (increasingly wrongly) as emo (or faux-emo), but more properly termed pop hardcore or popcore, this style of music is a radio and MTV friendly version of hardcore punk. ...

For discussion of the genre as it exists currently, please see pop hardcore. Known (increasingly wrongly) as emo (or faux-emo), but more properly termed pop hardcore or popcore, this style of music is a radio and MTV friendly version of hardcore punk. ...

For discussion of fashion as well as related social phenomena with the pop hardocre (or "modern emo") genre, please see emo fashion. Regardless of region or year, the issue of fashion and social & cultural issues are something that have always been aligned with emo as a genre. ...

Emo groups

• Category:Emo musical groups

See also

• pop hardcore
• emo fashion
• Scene Kids
• Emo Violence
• Screamo
• Hardcore Emo
• straight edge (sXe)
• youth crew
• math rock
• art rock

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Sources

• Radin, Andy. "What The Heck Is Emo Anyways." What The Heck Is Emo Anyways. Accessed on July 17, 2005.
• Heller, Greg. "Bands Seek Emotional Rescue, young postpunk stars sick of 'emo-core' label." Bands Seek Emotional Rescue. Accessed on September 10, 2000.
• Greenwald, Andy (2003). Nothing Feels Good. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-31-230863-9.
• Andersen, Mark (2001). Dance Of Days, Two Decades of Punk In The Nations Capitol. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1-887-128-49-2.

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External links

• Emo-ology — an attempt to create an emo discography
• "what the heck *is* emo anyway?" a semi-comprehensive FAQ/parody on the subject