Category: Music
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25 Years of Texas Is the Reason
When people today hear the word “emo,” they often aren’t thinking of what I’m thinking of. They aren’t thinking of what people I used to go to shows with, collect records with, and discover new bands with think of. Emo was a sound, a scene, a movement, and it had nothing to do with big…
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The Anthology of Emo Volume 2: An Interview With Tom Mullen
Sitting down and speaking with Tom Mullen, I never doubted for a second how seriously he takes emo. This genre of music, whose definition is often misinterpreted, was a subject we would cover in great detail during our interview. Tom’s book, The Anthology of Emo Volume 2, is due out this September and make no…
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Remembering Kurt Cobain 25 Years Later
“Kurt Cobain is dead”. Disc jockey Jay Gilbert, then of Cincinnati’s hard rock station WEBN, was how I learned of Cobain leaving this world. I was sitting in the front seat of my Dad’s car, one of my younger sisters in the back. I don’t know what was said before the announcement of Cobain’s suicide…