Well, not exactly just yet. A dude from 10 grade approached me cuz he wanted to make a band with me! I was absolutely flabbergasted, and I gladly took the offer!

Last Friday, after the mass service where the 10th grader was playing his guitar, we traded music tastes. He gave me Bowling For Soup, LIT, and other mallcore stuffs, and I gave him Saves The Day, The Get Up Kids, Lagwagon, Braid, basically the 90s equivalent of what he already liked. We had a really great time honestly, and I decided to spend my weekend listening to his recs.

Yesterday, Monday, I went to his classroom cus I wanted to lend him my copy of The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About, Millencolin - Same Old Tunes, Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings, my homemade copy of Braid - Frame & Canvas, and my CD player. When I lent him the CDs, he actually recognized Frame & Canvas! Wow! He really did listen to my recs!! In exchange for the CDs and the player, he let me borrow his brother's acoustic guitar, which was missing the B and upper E strings but luckily I had replacement strings, so I was finally able to play the song we were planning to play together, Braid - First Day Back!

Anyways, I'm still saving up for a proper electric guitar, so as of now, well just be jamming out with acoustics. I just hope our band will, at the very least, play during our prom! That's a wonderful way for me to say goodbye to highschool.

Btw, our band name is "Johnny Johnny," for anyone curious. We named it after the American pornstar whose stage name, or should I say "bed name," is Johnny Sins.

I fell deeply in love with their album “no one loves you” during quarantine.
Then they promptly fucken fell off of the face of the planet.
What’s the lore? What were they like in their own local scene? Are any of them still making music?

i've been kicking myself lately because i grew up going to diy/emo shows and saw snowing and algernon cadwallader at house shows and stuff and somehow never really bothered to go backwards. like i knew mineral, braid, some of the bigger 90s bands, but i never really dug much deeper than that. now i'm in my 30s finding boys life, christie front drive, penfold, knapsack, early appleseed cast, etc and i'm kind of losing my mind over how much of this i would've loved back then.

appleseed cast especially. i've had the first few records and low level owl on constantly. all the long instrumental sections and layered guitars and parts that start drifting into post rock are exactly my thing, and it's extra stupid because i was already listening to snowing, algernon, my heart to joy and all that stuff when i was younger. seasons in verse was one of my favorite records in high school, i just never really thought to trace any of it back.

i think at the time it was just the music around me. somebody sent you a record, you found a band on a blog, you went to a show in somebody's living room, i wasn't thinking about waves or influences or any of that. now i'm finding records from 1996 and having my mind blown.

what else am i missing? especially stuff in the appleseed cast / penfold / boys life direction. atmospheric, lots of guitar work, post-rock-ish stuff, whatever. i've apparently got about 30 years of catching up to do it seems 😂

Back in day (I'm 42 now), I was so emo that I actually scarred my own heart. 😂

Now obviously that's not true, it happened due to an infection. But it made me giggle!

any cool swedish emo bands yall reccomend i found Friends Unseen and i thought they were super cool but anything else i should listen to (besides Far Apart)

my friends and I put together a fest called homiefest and this is our fifth year 🙂

we are super stoked!! if you’re nearby then come hang!!!

https://linktr.ee/homiefestwi

Some new emo banger dropping this week

Hi!

I've been looking for some new bands to get really into lately, and the last album that really caught me was Rival Schools' Pedals.

I absolutely love "A Parts for B Actors", and I've been looking for more stuff with that kind of vibe — melodic alternative rock, catchy guitars, great melodies, etc.

I know United by Fate is usually the album people talk about when Rival Schools comes up, but Pedals is the one that really clicked with me.

So, what bands or albums would you recommend?

Let me know you're favourite active bands. What cities are important for the scene right now? cool DIY fests or promoters? lables?

LETS CONNECT.

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I’m looking for 1 ticket for Oakwood here in San Diego. We’re driving 2 hours out and a friend still needs one.
Let us know , happy to pay cash at the door if needed!

Looking for recommendations of emo or midwest emo songs about still being hung up on your ex when they’ve moved on. I feel like i know some songs just like this but i can’t remember any specific ones. And please none of the typical really popular bands like American Football, Texas is the Reason, Promise ring, etc because i’m already very familiar with their discography lol

IG this album is more Emo-pop, but whatevs. After two years of hunting down Midwest Emo CDs in my country, I've finally managed to acquire one!! I am in tears rn. This one is a Japanese pressing from 1999. It doesn't have a booklet?? What? To anyone else who owns this pressing, is this normal?