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Random music news for Friday, November 22, 2019

November 22, 2019November 21, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aerosmith, Apple, Baby Shark, Coldplay, Emo, Gramms, Las Vegas, Maestro Fresh Wes, Phil Lynott, Podcasting, Spotify, Thin Lizzy, UK Christmas Number 1

Is it just me or are you getting more spam calls on your mobile phone and/or land line? I’m averaging

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Random music news for Saturday, June 29, 2019

June 29, 2019June 28, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments David Gilmour, Emo, Fugazi, Hans Zimmer, R. Kelly, Steven Adler, The Weeknd

Kawhi Lenoard turns 28 today. Send him a card. Don’t forget to urge him to stay with the Raptors. And

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Random music news for Saturday, March 23, 2019

March 23, 2019March 22, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Emo, Empire, Fox, Guy Oseary, Indie Awards, K-Pop, New Zealand, Rolling Stones, Spotify, Streaming, The Dirt, Tower Records, Woodstock

Squirt, the junior English bull terrier in the house, turns five today. Special treats for everyone! On to music news

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Music History Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 849: Variety returns to alt-rock

March 10, 2019July 23, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Emo, Screamo

Music is always evolving, mutating, and modifying itself in a self-organizing way. Enough people may agree on a certain new

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Damn kids. Watch these college students react to pop-punk bands from the 2000s

October 12, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 00's, Emo, Pop-Punk

Each generation believes that their music is the best ever made, so it’s fun (and instructive) to watch a group

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How emo is that song? Let’s ask science

September 4, 2018September 3, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Emo

Emo seems to be making some sort of a comeback, which means more attention for groups like My Chemical Romance

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Music News 

Could we be on the cusp of an emo revival?

May 22, 2018May 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Emo, Revival

There was a time in the mid-00’s when alt-rock was almost nothing but emo. What started as an intense form

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Music News 

Are you into Goth or emo? Then you might be at high risk for suicide.

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Emo, Goths

That’s a pretty scary headline, so we’d better take a close look at the research behind it, especially since that

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Music History Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 790: The Tribes of Alt-Rock

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blitz Kids, Emo, Goth, Mods, New Romantics, Punk, Rockers, Ska, Suedeheads, Teddy Boys

One of the most useful things about music is that it can be used to tell the world who you

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Recommended Reading 

MySpace, Bangs, and Being Deep: ‘Everybody Hurts’ Emo Survival Guide Turns 10

April 13, 2017April 12, 2017 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments Alternative Press, Book, Emo, Everybody Hurts, Leslie Simon, Trevor Kelley

Maybe it wasn’t just a phase after all? Emo, typically associated with angsty teens and a muted fashion sense, was

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Donald Trump’s Speeches Have Been Repurposed as an Early 2000s Emo Song

March 29, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Donald Trump, Emo

There is nothing that will ever make me like emo–but I may have to make an exception for this. Earlier

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