rolling emo/pop-punk/dogs on skateboards 2017

Domestica is such a great record, to go back a couple dozen posts.

blood command fall enough into a venn diagram of like... actual pop metal, metalcore, post-hardcore, emo, etc. that i think i can post them here. their new song is wonderful https://soundcloud.com/tigerfysisiskformat/blood-command-cult-drugs

is that a radio rip or something? the compression makes it unlistenable for me

nature of soundcloud i think. try bandcamp? https://bloodcommand.bandcamp.com/track/cult-drugs or spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/01wtyqu6JITgDWi4jKdk0R

lmao i am OBSESSED with this song

It's good

ok yeah this is great

Choon

omg at the mashup machine

Not sure if it got discussed anywhere last year (still no search feature?) but I keep coming back to this Ian Sweet LP. Not many other bands that can pick me up and make my stomach churn in the same song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDLfQQ0u4Y

If It Makes You Less Sad I Will POLL Emo Albums

this ought to be good :)

This Estates album slays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yff_whqj4

hey Brad, you like Camp Cope, right? Smalltown NZ band fruit juice parade's first single is kind've on that buzz: https://fruitjuiceparade.bandcamp.com/

Also, can't remember if I posted about this last year, but here's a comp of current stuff from China/Japan/Indonesia/Singapore: https://qiiisnacksrecords.bandcamp.com/album/emotion-no

apparently there will be new Antarctigo Vespucci (Jeff Rosenstock + Chris Farren) soon which makes me happy

it's like a cornucopia of active emo threads

https://phatnphunky.bandcamp.com

"All proceeds to be donated to Planned Parenthood."

oh man All Dressed Up In Dreams is my favorite Merritt song from my favorite of his records and Elaiza Santos is the perfect person to cover it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnrP7sIH_c

Still catching up on everything but faves from this year have been Oliver Houston and Dryjacket. This track is particularly delightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h01AQ7_3C6g

It's also been a dream winter for emo gigs in the UK! So far I've caught The Hotelier, Tiny Moving Parts, The Wonder Years, PUP, Pinegrove, Crying... Martha this month. TMP were the happiest band I have ever seen in my life.

Am I missing a Spotify/YouTube playlist for this year's thread? If not, I'll happily throw one together.

Everybody reading this: don't forget to vote in the EMO POLL! You have until tomorrow to send in your ballot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyP9Qi1OfaA

Dug that Acceptance track. Not familiar with them.

brad I finally was able to finish that acceptance album today. really good front to back modern pop rock album thanks for the rec.

new sorority noise album out - it's kinda like a deja entendu knock-off but the second track lyrics about fucking god and listening to the gaslight anthem and i'm enjoying it. some lyrical clunkers but this is def the best thing they've ever done imo.

lol when i wrote that i had no idea they just covered "Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis" as a single

https://sororitynoise.bandcamp.com/track/me-vs-maradona-vs-elvis-brand-new

(i like the stuff on the album more than the cover)

it's embarrassing to admit but i'm kinda smitten w/ this sorority noise album

the line "I'm not trying to say it's easy / But I'm trying to say it's fine" has been stuck in my head for days

It's fun. Nothing to embarrassed about. The Old Grey album that came out last year was pretty good too.

p4k gave it an 8. normally i don't care how p4k reviews an album but i just read all the those old anti-emo p4k reviews of classic albums of the genre a few weeks ago.

i doubt this is the right thread for them but maybe the only place on ilm i can admit i am really digging this Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms album which is horror punk and so somewhat related to emo/pop-punk at least to me?

I'm finally getting around to cleaning up the last few 2016 genre playlists and building out 2017. The plan was to wait to post them in a cannonball once they were all finalized but, since tangenttangent asked, here's an early shot off the forward bow for you:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Emo Thread Spotify Playlist

I'm going to try to update these quarterly and drop a note on thread to alert when I do.

the new album by the maine rules! not really emo but they were considered emo at one point? kinda third eye blind-y, which also blends into some 1975-y moments

I was just muttering "Maine Eye Blind" to myself...

I like the Rosenstock-produced Smith St Band album quite a bit

^^^^ this is good as hell

I find the dude a bit wearying over 45 mins but individually the songs are really strong, the opener in particular is such a vintage emo jam

still not sure whether Hey Violet (who i love) slots in here, since i flit back and forth on which side of the indie poptimist/Paramore dynamic they really plant their feet in

i feel like they've been posted in the rolling pop thread before but i'll allow it

the smith st band record hit #3 on the aussie charts this week, officially making them the most emo nation on the planet

Juggling the needs and schedules of three bands sounds daunting, but to hear Chris Carrabba tell it, it's a necessary part of his creativity, with each band benefiting the others. After reaching success with Dashboard Confessional in the early 2000s, he rejoined the reactivated band Further Seems Forever in 2010, and debuted the Americana and folk-influenced Twin Forks in 2013. All three bands have new albums in various stages of completion -- new Dashboard and Twin Forks albums are "pretty close to done," while a new Further Seems Forever EP is "in gestation" -- and Carrabba has been performing live with multiple bands, sometimes within days of each other.

!!!

wait, carrabba's doing another fsf release?!!!??!

god help me dashboard tickets go on sale today and i'm thinking about going again

Hey guys. I generally stay away in fear from ILM, but I was looking for some recommendations. Not much of a deep punk taste, liked it in the '90s, didn't branch out much from NOFX/Green Day/Operation Ivy/Bad Religion. 2000s pop-punk came and I was generally turned off by a lot of the bands coming out. Like some were OK, but.. in any case I'm a dilettante on this genre, mostly... bear in mind.

Was listening to an album in my iTunes library that still kills for me some reason. I haven't really heard much that hit me in just the right way called Fifth Hour Hero. (I also don't know how well known this band is, only that I discovered them right before they broke up. Some cartoonist recommended them, I think.) In particular their last EP (You Have Hurt My Business and My Reputation Too) and last album (Not Revenge... Just a Vicious Crush) are just fantastic. something about them reaches into my heart, like they jumped from a decade earlier sidestepping a lot of the style from the mid-'00s. Some shades of Japanese rock/pop from that era too, though I'm not gonna try to explain why I'm feeling it. The lead vocalist has a good style, and even the guy who sings the odd track here and there isn't bad. Crisp production, drums, angsty emotionally lyrics totally sold by by a great voice. Yet, admittedly, not super original? But there's something there, I don't know. Anyway, if anyone knows this band and/or could point me in the direction of music like it, I'd really appreciate it.

If you're curious, look up "Everything I Won't Miss" and "My Sympathies".

(I did a little research and found that they had some connection to Against Me!, appearing as background vocalists on one album and being on the same label at some point, but... that band didn't really do it for me at all, like most pop-punk bands to be honest.)

You might see if there's anything you respond to the same way here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/6IovjBTXeMtrEqJjd8vrla

Thanks! Will definitely check that out

hey Nhex!

Have you listened to Knapsack?

never heard of 'em! will give a try

just a reminder that there's a thread spotify list to explore too:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0nLJrzRAFkOIdWKDftGJLK