New York Times Article On "Emo Jamboree"

[Frank Giaramita]

The New York Times wrote an article on this past weekend's Bamboozle (www.thebamboozle.com) festival in New Jersey titled, "The Bamboozle Draws Them By The Thousands For An Emo Jamboree (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/arts/music/09bamb.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin)".

Submitted by: ranger0099

[fedhed7]

Some of the most exciting music at the Bamboozle came from bands that managed to smuggle melodies into chaotic, metal-influenced songs. The band From First to Last has already released one of the year's best emo albums, "Heroine" (Epitaph). One of the weekend's highlights was a spitting-mad version of "The Latest Plague" from that CD.

:headbang:

[ACA]

I'm standing right near that girl in the red shirt in the bottom right corner of the picture..well, the picture cuts off. But that's where I was. Too bad the angle wasn't the other way!

-ACA

[serendipity]

haha that's gonna piss off a lottttttttttt of "indie rockers" (who are actually the most emo kids of them ALL.) i remember an article in the oc register called weezer 'pop punk' and we were considering having a protest a few years back. haha.

[ACA]

I guess it's also just time to accept the term "emo" to cover any band can trace any part of its roots to the late 80s/early 90s indie/emocore scene.

I'll be writing my full two-day review of the festival shortly. This was my 1337th post. LEET.

-ACA

[SuperJoe]

wow, talk about overusing "emo"

[ARo2431]

Some of the most exciting music at the Bamboozle came from bands that managed to smuggle melodies into chaotic, metal-influenced songs. The band From First to Last has already released one of the year's best emo albums, "Heroine" (Epitaph). One of the weekend's highlights was a spitting-mad version of "The Latest Plague" from that CD.


I hear ya, thats pretty cool they had something good to say about them.

[Paul Tao]

"The band is led by Hayley Williams, a tiny and energetic 17-year-old with a big voice. All she needs is a few more catchy songs; here's hoping she gets them soon."

Hahaha ouch.

[Frank Giaramita]

"Emo" has really become a synonym for "scene". Words evolve, so I see no problem with it really.

[ACA]

Little does the writer realize: Heroine sucks. From First To Last is a joke.

-ACA

[ranger0099]

i was looking at the author's other articles and came across his (her?) review of louder now

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2DD123FF937A 15757C0A9609C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics% 2fPeople%2fS%2fSanneh%2c%20Kelefa

it doesn't tell you anything. how do reviews so thin get posted to the times?

[SuperJoe]

"Emo" has really become a synonym for "scene". Words evolve, so I see no problem with it really.

well "asshole" has become synonymous with "george w bush." and when i call my friends assholes, i mean it playfully. you'd have to really hate somebody to call them george w bush.

so yes, i see something wrong with it.

[omegaX]

That was a pretty god awful article. Right on for keeping a load of good bands under one crappy umbrella.

I wish the press would accept that nobody else but them and a handful of "outsiders" use the term emo. Even though I disliked a lot of bands there, I sure as hell wouldn't put them all under one term.

[One Aware]

Did anyone else notice that when William Beckett from the Academy Is... came out and finished singing with Fall Out Boy & Panic! during FOB's set, he turned right before running off stage and grabbed Pete Wentz's face and kissed him dead set on the lips. And Pete made some wity comment about it afterwards. Anyone have a clue why he did that, I'm thinking they're really close?

[phoenixinflames]

HAHAHA...yes, without even reading the article, that title is amazing...ok now to the article

[mogwaifearsatan]

Hahahaha I'm all about new Underoath's "death metal chaos". Seeing people like this try to write about music makes me cringe.

[dont you move]

in the picture of mcs, i'm all the way on the right side with the devils shirt on.

[nfgluver1423]

man, that crowd for mcs is HUGE. yay! i see me right up front smiling haha.

[InochiSagashi]

hahaha.

the word "jamboree" makes me think of that MickeyMouse song.

[GDSP]

This is a waaaaay better article. Kind of puts 'boozle's music in its place:
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/

Also, i think its interesting to note that this type of music really is the predominant style of music for younger music fans. Is it really a scene, if everyone is in it?

[CWeezer]

i wasn't there but this article seems rather off.

[zizou1790]

haha "emo" is so overplayed its almost absurd now

[GDSP]

haha "emo" is so overplayed its almost absurd now
It used to be this tiny genre, even five years ago. Today, every kid in every middle/high school in America listens to all of the bands on this board. Most of the trendsetters moved on to new stuff around 2001ish.

[siimpx]

wtf @ the jonas brothers playing at bamboozle? i accidentally saw them once & they're fucking horrible. a worse version of hanson, if you can imagine. & he so burned paramore. ouch.

[dontgrabtindy]

"The band is led by Hayley Williams, a tiny and energetic 17-year-old with a big voice. All she needs is a few more catchy songs; here's hoping she gets them soon."

Hahaha ouch.
:(

[WakingTheMisery]

glad i didn't go.

[ACA]

glad i didn't go.

You're a fool.

AFI, Thursday, Every Time I Die, Lifetime, Motion City Soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath, The Fall Of Troy, The Bled, Bayside, Emanuel, Paramore, The Receiving End Of Sirens, Alexisonfire, Streetlight Manifesto, Armor For Sleep, Moneen, Strike Anywhere, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Chiodos, MeWithoutYou... and probably others I'm forgetting that are awesome.

-ACA

[dropkickromance]

You're a fool.

AFI, Thursday, Every Time I Die, Lifetime, Motion City Soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath, The Fall Of Troy, The Bled, Bayside, Emanuel, Paramore, The Receiving End Of Sirens, Alexisonfire, Streetlight Manifesto, Armor For Sleep, Moneen, Strike Anywhere, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Chiodos, MeWithoutYou... and probably others I'm forgetting that are awesome.

-ACA

hurry up and write your review, i want to read it!

[obstacle_iii]

Spencer Chamberlain, claimed he didn't mind if fans couldn't wait for the release date. "I'm not offended if you've already downloaded it," he said.

You gotta admit that was cool of him to say, instead of being all pissed off about it.

The other article...

"People's grandmothers and shit were there." hahaha.

[.KillMoneen.]

why is every rock/punk/indie and so on now put into one fucking lame word. Makes me sick

[richmoy]

I'm a journalism major. This article negates everything I've learned in college, stylistically and gramatically.

Wow.

[ACA]

I'm a journalism major. This article negates everything I've learned in college, stylistically and gramatically.

Wow.

I'm a human being. This article's writing/style/grammar offends me as a person.

-ACA

[we are cured]

the from first to last quote made me laugh...'to set all you motherfuckers on fire'

[RandomHero1230]

aw man, Justin's blocking me in that MCS picture. I was right in front of the crowd

[JohnnyG]

I thought FFTL sounded awful. Everything was way too loud. Sonny needed to get the shit kicked out of him when he told everyone to throw trash.

[InaGreendase]

Paint It Black, the Fall of Troy, Every Time I Die, and Strike Anywhere r lyk s0OoOo0 em0!!1

This was as lazy a blanket job as I've ever seen.

Why are the most knowledgeless of music journliasts chosen to cover the slightly underground styles? Isn't there some pool of journalists that actually know what they're talking about that can write about it?

In regards to the Village Voice article, the writer does not understand that while hardcore is related to emo, it's only in the sense of stuff like later Turning Point -- NOTHING of which was represented at the festival. Some early hardcore sounds like early emo, neither of which was there (save for PIB and Strike, but both were drawing from bands who had NOTHING to do with emo [Black Flag and Gorilla Biscuits, respectively]). And what metalcore bands are related to emo? From First to Last? The band whose guitars are relatively metallic but whose sound offers no real flashes of hardcore?

Such a joke. These people are clueless. At least admit your cluelessness prior to attempting writing about something.

endrant

[Un-AmericanPunk]

I don't even want to read the article. I'm so sick of the term "emo". Every day I hear people at school make fun of "emo kids" and it just makes me mad because the kids they talk about couldn't even tell you what fugazi is or anything. I really just hate how every band these days that doesn't sing about killing people or the government being bad is called emo.

[HiddenInNJ]

pretty shitty article but expected from someone who doesn't know anything about "emo" or "the scene" and i'm not gonna get involved with those terms because i shouldnt need to... so pissed i wasn't there though

[12:46AM]

And then there was Underoath, a Christian band from Florida with a good shot at becoming one of this year's emo success stories. While it played, an airplane circled above, advertising its new album, "Define the Great Line" ^ that's amazing

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/05/08/arts/5.jpg
^that's hysterical. little girls getting crushed at shows always makes me laugh. note the victory records bags. man that picture cracks me up. hahaha.

[space unicorn]

if only any of the mentioned bands were "emo".

[actionandaction]

I'm a human being. This article's writing/style/grammar offends me as a person.

-ACA

hahaha.

[anthony_jr]

the word jamboree makes me cringe the most.

[Imallout007]

emo? Im pretty sure FOB and TBS are pop-punk, but hey it was an awsome concert

[rickyterror]

I thought FFTL sounded awful. Everything was way too loud. Sonny needed to get the shit kicked out of him when he told everyone to throw trash.



waaaaa it was too loud....

sorry that chris grady sound man of the century and beyond mixes at 194db