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The Get Up Kids performing at Emo's in 1997. While in high school, Ryan Pope, Rob Pope, and Jim Suptic formed a short-lived band called Kingpin. Matt Pryor had been writing songs since he was a teenager, and was playing in a band called Secret Decoder Ring. [8]
Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.
Emo, whose participants are called emo kids or emos, is a subculture which began in the United States in the 1990s. [1] Based around emo music, the subculture formed in the genre's mid-1990s San Diego scene, where participants were derisively called Spock rock due to their distinctive straight, black haircuts.
Black hair, a floppy fringe covering a smoky eye, and music from bands like Green Day is probably how most remember the emo sub-culture in the early 2000s.
Saves the Day was one of the more successful emo bands during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when emo was still primarily underground. Independent label Vagrant Records signed several successful late-1990s and early-2000s emo bands. The Get Up Kids had sold over 15,000 copies of their debut album, Four Minute Mile (1997), before signing with ...
Pool Kids are an American math rock emo band from Tallahassee, Florida. The band's line-up consists of lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Christine Goodwyne, drummer Caden Clinton, guitarist Andy Anaya, and bassist Nicolette Alvarez. [1] The band has released two studio albums, Music To Practice Safe Sex To (2018) and Pool Kids (2022).
The Emo Nite event, now a full-fledged national business in its 10th year, started out as a way for creators Petracca and Freed to listen to the kind of music they enjoyed — despite it not being ...
In a 2017 retrospective celebrating the album's 20th anniversary, Vice Media called Four Minute Mile "a snapshot of a young band with their career ahead of them," that "[t]he earnest candor of the lyrics coupled with the innovations in bridging punk and emo make this album a staple in emo's history," and calling it a "near-masterpiece."