The Receiving End of Sirens - Music of the Spheres

Great song to just sit and chill to

"Take Cover" by Acceptance

GREAT generic emo rock.

Jimmy Eat World - Littlething

"Empty Apartment" by Yellowcard

Paris, Texas - Your Death

Paris, Texas - Your Death

My American Heart - White Lines

My American Heart - White Lines

Typecast - Don't Take Me From Me

Typecast - Don't Take Me From Me

The Juliana Theory, Live at UCSD in 2003

Yes it's 45 minutes long. Yes, it's a full concert. Yes, Brett Detar is a douchebag. No, I don't understand his dancing.

TJT had a reunion tour this past summer. I liked their last album a lot. I'm sad this footage was too early for that.

Armor for Sleep - The Truth About Heaven

Armor for Sleep - The Truth About Heaven

Saves The Day - Can't Stay The Same

Saves The Day - Can't Stay The Same

Copeland - California

Copeland - California

Ace Enders & a Million Different People

This is pretty cool. I can identify a few people by voice, but I'm not too familiar with the full list. According to wiki:

The song involves multiple artists including Mark Hoppus [blink182], Aaron Marsh [copeland], Craig Owens [chiodos], Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, Bryce Avary [the rocket summer], Kenny Vasoli [the starting line], Matt Thiessen [relient k], and Duane Okun[socratic]

The Starting Line - Best of Me

OMG that hair, that tight t-shirt, that really fast guitar change, that weird obsession with John Cusack movies.

That's how you know it's emo, heh.

Jimmy Eat World - Drugs or Me (Styrofoam Remix)

moneen - hold that sound

I wish there was an embeddable video of "start angry... end mad" but whatever. I'm surprised they're still around, honestly.

Fall Out Boy - Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner

Fall Out Boy - Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner

Mae - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

Not familiar with the genre.

Mae - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

Blue Boy - Texas is the Reason

Before emo was singing about black parades and such, it was really known to be born from the ashes of punk rock, characterized by raw vocals and sparse production. It's rare you'll find a band like that nowadays. Okay not really. But I am very sure that Texas is the Reason is definitely one of my favorite old school emo bands. I first found out about them from a friend who use to Kazaa the shit out of her computer. Actually, I remember her showing me Dashboard Confessional for the first time when his first album (Swiss Army Romance) was "leaked." I'm not saying I heard about them first, but hearing the leaked version of Swiss Army Romance is probably as OG as seeing Adam [of the book of Genesis] as a fetus.

woo demos

This seems to happen a lot with Brand new, but these demos definitely sound a lot more like demos than their previous set. I really like this vocal lacking track which sounds a bit reminiscent of Your Favorite Weapon. But my guess is most of Daisy will sound like this:

There's a lot of live videos and demos of their new stuff on youtube, so yeah.

Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

Although they weren't the first of the genre, Sunny Day Real Estate were instrumental in establishing the emo genre. The bassist went on to play in a band known as Foo Fighters (maybe you've heard of them?). Rediscovered Sunny Day Real Estate while listening to Jawbreaker and Planes Mistaken for Stars (the latter is similar to Sunny Day Real Estate). If you're into early Jimmy Eat World (i.e., "What I Would Say To You Now") you would hella dig Sunny Day, especially since so many parallels are drawn between the bands. Also, Paramore covered "Faces in Disguise" by Sunny Day.