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Thank you @lulu_08 , seriously folks. This isn't emo.  Go to WashedUpEmo.com or @washedupemo on Twitter or on Facebook.com/washedupemo and actually read about real emo that doesn't include Yellowcard or My Chemical Romance. Was this written by an intern?


Dammit. I misread the title and thought this was about bands who used to play *at* Emo's, the club.

Joshua Macala
Joshua Macala

Why did I just read about emo bands? Curse you Houston Press!

Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith

If they're anything like the bands I listened to in high school, I imagine they're at Scout Bar RIGHT NOW.


 @WashedUpEmo  @lulu_08 I know what emo is truly (I reference that in the article), but there was a movement in the mainstream that co-opted the term and these bands were chief among them. I know a lot of you old school guys would like to run away from that, I would too in a lot of ways, but it's simply not true to deny that there were magazine covers everywhere proclaiming these guys the kings of emo. The Promise Ring means emo to us, but to a lot of kids who grew up when these bands were popular, they had no idea what a Sunny Day Real Estate or a Cap'n Jazz was and considered this the real deal. It would be willful ignorance to say these bands weren't considered emo at that time. The people who were around when that was going on and realized that there was a Jade Tree Records but there was also an Alternative Punk magazine pushing two distinct ideas of emo are who this article is aimed at.

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