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This is a list of Midwest emo bands. A. A Great Big Pile Of Leaves [1] Algernon Cadwallader [2] American Football [3] [4] The Anniversary [5] Anxious [6] ...
Midwest emo (or Midwestern emo [1]) refers to the emo scene and/or subgenre [2] that developed in the 1990s Midwestern United States.Employing unconventional vocal stylings, distinct guitar riffs and arpeggiated melodies, [3] Midwest emo bands shifted away from the genre's hardcore punk roots and drew on indie rock and math rock approaches. [4]
Camping in Alaska has been considered influential to Midwest emo and the emo revival movement, particularly its debut album, which has been described as a cult classic. [12] The band has cited Sunny Day Real Estate, Modest Mouse, Fugazi, Pavement, and Jawbreaker as influences. [1] [2] [3]
Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C. , where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace .
Midwest emo; indie rock; math rock; post-rock [545] Polyvinyl: Considered one of the most important math rock and Midwest emo records of the 1990s. Paste's "The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time": #206 [14] Pitchfork's "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s": #138 [15] Treble's "Top 150 Albums of the 90s" #48 [8] Rolling Stone's 40 Greatest Emo Albums ...
Cap'n Jazz reunited at the Empty Bottle on Friday, January 22, 2010, as part of Joan of Arc's Don't Mind Control Variety Show. [7] After playing a short, impromptu set in Chicago, the band played its first official reunited show at the annual Forecastle Festival in Louisville on July 10, 2010, [8] and a hometown reunion show a week later at the Bottom Lounge, supporting the vinyl re-release of ...
Algernon Cadwallader's music has been described as emo and math rock.They cite Cap'n Jazz and The Beatles as influences. [16] According to Ian Cohen of Pitchfork, the band "purposefully chose Midwestern emo over other forms of punk and hardcore, a choice that liberated from the professionalism, earnestness, and striving that defines indie rock."
The emo revival, or fourth wave emo, [2] was an underground emo movement which began in the late 2000s and flourished until the mid-to-late 2010s. The movement began towards the end of the 2000s third-wave emo, with Pennsylvania-based groups such as Tigers Jaw, Algernon Cadwallader and Snowing eschewing that era's mainstream sensibilities in favor of influence from 1990s Midwest emo (i.e ...