Just when we were growing fond of My Chemical Romance, and when they showed they have the potential to make some really good music, they write this on their website: “like all great things, it has come time for it to end.” No preparation, no announce, no goodbye – nothing. But the fans don’t want to give up that easily. With an over 15,000-strong online petition, they are now calling the band to get back…
The Honda Civic Tour has struck again – for the 10th year in a row, as a matter of fact! This year, the annual pop/punk/hip-hop/rock show is featuring the headlining acts Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance, with an ever-changing selection of supporting bands. When the show went rolling through Detroit, my concert-going city of choice, they brought along dance-punk-indie-pop duo Matt & Kim to warm up the crowd. Sadly, I wasn’t able to dance to…
They’re Jawbox and they’re back! At least for a spark around Thanksgiving this year. According to Billboard and Reuters, the massively influential DC indie/punk quartet Jawbox will be reuniting for a December 8 performance on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” The performance is largely to promote the band’s (finally) reissued 1994 touchstone LP, “For Your Own Special Sweetheart.” Fallon recently (and giddily, which made my respect for the guy shoot up) hosted equally influential emo…
Depending on when you catch up with ZMEMusic on your local internet browser, Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and/or Good Evening. My name is Tyler, and I’m the newest addition to the fold here in the contributors’ nest. Our man Tibi has given me the go-ahead to spill some thoughts about music both new and old, so I’m not going to make him regret it. I’ll be contributing (hopefully) weekly columns, including this one that I’m…
Album name: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Album Artist name: Various Genre: Soundtrack Released: July 13 2009 Label: Reprise ZME Rating: N/A Website: transformersmovie.com/ I would love to give this CD a horrible review. I’d really, genuinely enjoy ripping apart its poxy devotion to dated post-grunge sludge rock. Or better yet, going on a bloodthirsty, rampaging rant about how the Transformers franchise as a whole has gone from being a treasured reminder of…
Album name: Knives Artist name: Aiden Genre: Emo Released: May 12 2009 Label: Victory ZME Rating: 2/10 Website: aiden.org Jesus Christ. Look, I’m not saying that Aiden are the worst band in the world. But you know that feeling you get when you see a 13 year old boy trying to be rebellious by wearing a lot of black and swearing in a really unconvincing manner, claiming that he’s angry at the whole entire world…
Kanye ‘Gay Fish’ West, Jared ‘Jesus’ Leto and Brandon ‘Swarovski’ Flowers – the hippest bunch ’round this side of the Internet. As if news of Creed and Limp Bizkit getting back together wasn’t enough for any sane man to bear, here’s another kick in the nuts – Kanye West and Jared Leto’s emo outfit 30 Seconds to Mars are set to work together on a new song, that will most probably get featured on the…
Talk about unlikely pairs, Elvis Costello and Fall Out Boy. He’s not the only one collabing with the emo stars, though, so the compromise isn’t that obvious. “What A Catch, Donnie,” is the Fall Out Boy’s third single, off their new album, “Folie à Deux,” that features cameos of various artists, playing Fall Out Boy songs. Other celebrities, featured as cameos in the song, include Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes (“Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down”),…
The oh-so popular emo trend (or not so popular), has a lot to owe to the New Wave innovators, The Cure. Quite frankly, I can’t think of any greater influence these heart broken artists could have, than Robert Smith’s ansamble. As a big thank you, all the biggest emo stars are set to cover The Cure, in a short EP, craftily titled Hypnagogic States (gosh!). Of course, what’s emo without marketing, right? The artists won’t…
Oh, people never leave these poor people alone, do they? First there was that really awesome cruel emo witch-hunt back in Mexico, then there was that all press mambo jambo going on with an English teenage emo who killed herself, now to top things off the State Duma is thinking about passing a law to ban the emo current all together in Mother Russia. According to NME a legislation is already currently being formulated in…
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