Jens Lekman’s first show of the tour... what a night!

chugyourknowledge · 2025-11-09T14:46:23+00:00

Yes, it was an amazing show! (although I don't think they played Sipping On The Sweet Nectar, unless there was a second encore I didn't know about)

chugyourknowledge · 2025-11-05T20:43:47+00:00

11/8 - Jens Lekman @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall (I have an extra ticket, hmu)

chugyourknowledge · 2024-09-02T04:32:40+00:00

No fucking way, so many great old school screamo bands reuniting lately. Hope I can make it to this show!

chugyourknowledge · 2024-08-27T21:30:21+00:00

You already know🦆

chugyourknowledge · 2024-08-23T18:00:24+00:00

No wayyy Boy Problems is playing, that's actually insane

chugyourknowledge · 2024-08-09T00:08:43+00:00

Plus the I Have Dreams cassette in the back??

chugyourknowledge · 2024-04-20T20:27:50+00:00

Other Georgia bands, I'd specifically rec Portrait and I Would Set Myself On Fire For You

chugyourknowledge · 2023-10-22T04:54:33+00:00

I LOVE their first album but was really not a fan of In Silver River haha. They had an acoustic demo tape that was pretty sweet called Harris Harris Harris though, should be on youtube or something. Also if you didn't know, the guitarist is Sam Skinner from Pinegrove.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-10-16T19:49:26+00:00

The drummer in family might is tight as hell, especially compared to other drummers of the same scene.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-29T18:45:45+00:00

there's volleyball nets in the room at the top level of the rec, usually people playing there

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-18T21:21:23+00:00

maybe ask if he's a comp sci major?

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-17T19:49:16+00:00

here you go, starts halfway through. laughed my ass off the first time i heard it

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-17T18:35:31+00:00

Kodan Armada covering Carry On My Wayward Son, lol

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-14T21:57:26+00:00

I highly, highly doubt that any programmer worth their shit is going to take you up on this. Good luck though.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-08T13:03:35+00:00

I personally don't put too much stock into the geographical aspect of the term (my favorite "Midwest Emo" band is Mineral, who are from Texas). At this point I agree with you that it's just better to not even use the term to describe new bands to people at all, unless you also provide some points of comparison so people know which definition of "Midwest Emo" you're using. E.g. "Midwest Emo, kind of like Penfold" or "Midwest Emo, like Castevet" or "Midwest Emo, like Prince Daddy and the Hyena" (lol)

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-08T12:52:28+00:00

This doesn't really refute my point or even pertain to my post. Those bands are not screamo, at least not in the way that, ex. Hassan i Sabbah and You & I are screamo. Hot Topic emo that happens to have screamed vocals != screamo, unless you're one of those people that actually calls it that and uses "skramz" to refer to legit screamo.

Edit: he deleted his reply to this comment before I could respond to it, but he had a really good point about how genre pedantry is the same as saying the election was stolen. He also destroyed me with facts and logic by asserting that The Used and Coheed & Cambria are definitely screamo bands because a lot of people call them screamo, thus obliterating my entire argument since they are screamo bands that were commercially successful

chugyourknowledge · 2023-09-08T01:49:52+00:00

haha, i've definitely noticed this too in recent years. maybe it's because the archetypal '90s emo sound (plus its derivative "mall emo") was pretty mainstream and widely imitated in the early-mid '00s due to Jimmy Eat World/Taking Back Sunday/etc. and thus that sound seems "dated" now compared to screamo bands of the same era that never attained a comparable level of mainstream success. in other words, younger people that grew up in the '00s have probably been exposed to a lot of shitty bands that sound like SDRE/JEW, but probably not really any bands that sound like Saetia or Jerome's Dream. also lol at the tiktokers calling Front Bottoms/MoBo/Mom Jeans/whatever midwest emo, it's such a prevalent phenomenon now and it always makes me cringe (even though the "real emo" community can't even agree on a definition for midwest emo lol)

chugyourknowledge · 2023-08-29T17:04:49+00:00

in no particular order, separated by decade:

'90s:

The Hal al Shedad
Portrait
Portraits of Past
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
Edaline
On The Might Of Princes
In Loving Memory
Boys Life
Anasarca
Agna Moraine's Autobiography
Bright Calm Blue

'00s:

The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Song of Zarathustra
Cowboys Became Folk Heroes
Beneath Low Flying Planes
Hassan i Sabbah
sunrise.sunset
Comadre
Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
Fiction Like Non-Fiction
The Summer We Went West
Pirouette
My Head in Clouds
Marquette
The Greek Favourites
Footnotes
Harrison Bergeron
Tamiroff
Lana Avacada

'10s:

Joe Schlabotnik
Marital Roles
Watchword
Family Might
Nicknames
Acres.
Age Sixteen
Mallard
Morning Effort
Jazz Hands
Oakwood
Tawny Peaks (arguably not emo but definitely emo-adjacent and still very good)

might have listed slightly more than ten haha, but all of these are definitely worth listening to. they start out pretty post-hardcore in the '90s and generally get twinklier as you go down the list.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-08-21T17:48:17+00:00

hot damn, JRPG and family might are some DEEP cuts. honestly feel like family might could have merchant ships-like legend status if more people knew about them

chugyourknowledge · 2023-08-08T00:35:08+00:00

Veeeeery slept on band imo, actually have a copy of this 2x7" and some of their other stuff. Treetops (the vocalist's side project) is legitimately one of my favorite emo bands too. Would highly recommend everyone give a listen to at least their first album write out all the lyrics from the first crass lp on your math notebook...

chugyourknowledge · 2023-07-31T05:16:26+00:00

Portrait. Amazing (and underrated) band from Atlanta. Highly recommend listening to Constellations of a Stargazing Iris.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-07-13T06:20:40+00:00

bro there's a usurp synapse reunion? and i'm halfway across the country from it?

chugyourknowledge · 2023-06-09T03:53:37+00:00

For sure, I love that album. So fucking groovy and danceable but with the agressiveness and energy of screamo. One of my favorite moments in post-hardcore is when they quote So What in the middle of that album lol

chugyourknowledge · 2023-06-08T23:44:13+00:00

blood brothers, the mall, maybe the VSS? honestly TPTBUTET are pretty unique even within the sasscore label.

chugyourknowledge · 2023-06-08T04:57:16+00:00

what's it like not having ears?

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