When Stanli of Summerbruise picked ‘The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most’ as the emo album she crushed on many moons ago as a kid with a mixed CD from her cooler, older cousin - I was thrilled. This is an album I learned to love, so it was nice to take a... Continue Reading →
Stanli of Summerbruise was just a kid when a mixed CD from a cool, older cousin fell into her lap. It was that day that child transformed into an emo kid. Dashboard Confessional consumed her and from then on ‘The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most’ stepped into her heart, and hasn’t vacated... Continue Reading →
On every list declaring the most defining emo albums sits the band at the center of this week’s episode. With songs that both pushed a generation towards the emo side of life and vindicated Spiderman, Dashboard Confessional is that girl when it comes to the emo scene. However, Stanli from Summerbruise immediately fell in love... Continue Reading →
Millennials. We tend to hold onto the past like Elmyra does animals; too tight. I’m probably the biggest culprit of this. With that, I decided to try and do what I could to slowly wean people off the past, by talking about it a little while also introducing audiences to something new. In this case,... Continue Reading →
When When We Were Young 2024 decided to piece something together with a gimmick; more so than just nostalgia, they decided that their third year in Las Vegas would be dedicated to some of the most important albums that were the soundtrack to Hot Topics around the US in the 2000s. Every band agreed (or... Continue Reading →
It was its third, but my first so let’s talk about the highs, lows, and emos of it all when it comes to When We Were Young 2024. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BRf2Q7Fp4Ik1ERpL5yQCJ?si=2631c732492c42d5
Spice Girls offered an appetizer of the obsession that was soon to follow as Ginger left a hole big enough in my heart for five guys from Florida to synchronize dance right into. Thus, the Backstreet Boys became my first musical interest and made my family question my sanity and often they still do. Though,... Continue Reading →
By now you’ve all listened to Girl at the Rock Shows talk at length about not only her love of Benji Madden of Good Charlotte but also how much music and concerts mean to her. If not - you can head here and do that and then come right back and read about the moments... Continue Reading →
Back in the day, I’d say 99.9% of tweens and teens who stepped foot inside Hot Topic wanted one thing out of summer, and that was to go to Warped Tour. I was no different. Going from the boy band ways of the backstreets to MTV pop punk meant spending way too much time imagining... Continue Reading →
Originally I was going to rattle on about 10 emo crushes, but then I thought - nah. Let’s talk about the music because at the end of the day that is what made that era so fucking amazing and left us in our fucking feels. So today when we say emo music, we’re talking about... Continue Reading →
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