Basically title. Now that the Fediverse got some traction going we have the golden opportunity to create a fresh community. So let‘s kick it off with an introduction thread!
Where are you from? What got you into Emo music? What‘s your local scene like? Do you play in a band? Let‘s get to know each other!
pretty empty community, but i’d really love to have like minded music lovers here on lemmy too, so i’ll go ahead and start off these introductions ;)
not sure if i’m technically supposed to be here, since i listen to more “emo” music than actual emo genre music (think more my chemical romance, get scared, pierce the veil, and the used rather than modern baseball basically) but i hope either this is the community for me or i’ll be able to find a more suitable one! either way though, music is super important to me emotionally and just something i love the feeling of listening to, though i’m not in a band or anything.
everyone is welcome! Emo is a pretty broad genre, so don’t hesitate to post your stuff here :)
Hey I’m Kyle, from the mid-Atlantic region of the US. I got into emo during the early 2000s 3rd wave via Something Corporate that a friend let me listen to. Over time I definitely drifted way more into 2nd wave. I play a little bass guitar but not nearly good enough to do anything with it.
My fave emo band is Mineral.
Yes!!! An Emo Community! Charls from Illinois here. The scene is alive and thriving here. All sorts of legendary homegrown bands and great venues aplenty to see the classics and the new stuff. I don’t play in a band, but I “played” bass in the wayback. I guess the Emo pipeline for me started with “Dear You” by Jawbreaker, then I got obsessed with The Lawrence Arms and Braid. Currently enamored with Guitar Fight, Charmer, Saturdays At Your Place, and Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes to name a few. I’m embarrassingly only just now getting into The Brave Little Abacus. Better late than never I guess?
Hi Manu and welcome! I’m from Poland and got really into emo couple years ago when I listened to Tiny Moving Parts for the first time (I don’t count the times when I was listening to Green Day as a teen). I was into metal and post-hardcore scene previously, but getting more into midwest emo changed the game for me. My top bands are before-mentioned TMP, sports., Micheal Cera Palin, Camp Cope, Foxing and Gulfer. I also love more of a math rock bands like TTNG, Hikes or Tangled Hair.
I do play in a band, we play midwest emo/math rock, but we don’t have any recordings and haven’t played any gigs yet (still looking for a vocalist…). Our local scene is almost inexistent - I don’t think any band plays in similar style that we do. There are some that come around the genre, but not exactly 1:1. Really hoping for this to change though, as it seems like there is an interest in this kind of music here basing on gigs that I’ve been to that are similar genre-wise and the amount of people that was there.
I‘m Manu (AbyssalChord) from the western portion of Germany and got into Emo music as a teen, roughly two decades ago in the midst of the third wave but soon learned about its origins and different approaches. I picked up the bass guitar at a friends house some day and fell in love with the instrument in a heartbeat and eventually started a band in 2021 called „relationship advice“. We played a couple of gigs by now and just finished producing an EP which is about to release in the Summer.
Although we have a small local scene consisting of a handful of bands, there is room to grow and we do our best to interconnect between cities. It‘s quite tough though because there are just a few venues that support DIY acts and even less who actually give Emo a chance. The german musical landscape is all about connections and you practically have no chance to land a gig anywhere without knowing someone who’s involved in the process it seems. Nonetheless I don’t want to make it seem like it’s a dire situation as everyone I got to know while playing shows were wonderful people with their hearts on their sleeves and that’s a beautiful thing!
Excited to see this here, even it is small. Everything starts somewhere. I’ll listen to pretty much anything, My Chemical Romance to American Football, you name it.
I’m from Western Canada. I discovered emo when I was suicidally depressed in highschool (like most emo fans I guess, lol) and while I’m doing a lot better now, I never got tired of the music.
I don’t play in a band but I do scream at my steering wheel after the occasional shitty day at work.
