The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There April 13, 2014Who says emo’s dead? Certainly not the nice young men from Worcester, MA who are, pardon my French,...
Braid: Movie Music, Vol. 1 June 15, 2010Singles collections can’t really be judged in the same light as full LPs. This one is no exception, but...
The Fire Theft: The Fire Theft December 3, 2009It’s like an adult Sunny Day Real Estate, complete with strings and soaring-ness (if that was in any...
The Good Life: Black Out May 2, 2009This album starts off on a serious high note with the kooky swing song, “The Beaten Path,” that...
The Anniversary: Your Majesty November 24, 2008This one is less swinging than their debut, Designing a Nervous Breakdown, eliminating the wacky keyboard and going...
The Anniversary: Designing a Nervous Breakdown November 24, 2008Welcome to the world of emo power-pop. Combining the whimsy of The Rentals and the typical Get Up...
Braid: The Age of Octeen March 31, 2008Oh, emo, you’ve come a long way. Braid is one of the first, and one of the least...
Texas is the Reason: Do You Know Who You Are? May 15, 2006Maybe Texas is the reason this band kinda sucks. I must have been going through my everything emo-core...
American Football: American Football March 10, 2004I think this might be the kind of music kids in high school get beaten up for listening...
Karate: The Bed Is In the Ocean November 3, 2003You can tell these guys are testing the waters here. They’re working with their phrasing and their more...
764-Hero: Get Here and Stay August 20, 2002They’ve definitely smoothed out some of the rough edges on this album compared to their debut. Like the...
Elliott: U.S. Songs August 4, 2002If you want to see where so much of today’s emo b.s. on modern rock radio comes from,...
Cursive: Cursive’s Domestica July 14, 2002It’s amazing when music can be both ugly and beautiful at the same time. This is Cursive’s torch,...
Karate: In Place of Real Insight April 28, 2002You can feel the vibe right off the bat on this album. The forward, verging on (gulp) emo...
764-Hero: Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere April 10, 2002Funny enough, these guys actually pepped up for their swan song. They took elements of all their previous...
Dashboard Confessional: The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most March 20, 2002Is it possible this album is even cheesier than the first? “Nobody cares!” whines Carrabba on the first...
Dashboard Confessional: So Impossible ep March 6, 2002There are some seriously cringe-worthy lyrics on this combination ep. I believe he asks the deep question, “So,...
The Get Up Kids: Eudora November 28, 2001Ah, the odds-and-ends collection. What can we say other than they probably shouldn’t have covered Suffragette City? There...
