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Where are your boys tonight? : the oral history of emo's mainstream explosion 1999-2008 Cover Image Book

Where are your boys tonight? : the oral history of emo's mainstream explosion 1999-2008 / Chris Payne.

Payne, Chris (Music journalist), (author.).

Summary:

"Told through interview with more than 150 people, including bands, producers, managers and fans, a music journalist offers an authoritative, impassioned and occasionally absurd account of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that took over the American music scene from 1999 to 2008"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063251281
  • ISBN: 0063251280
  • ISBN: 9780063161566
  • ISBN: 0063161567
  • Physical Description: xv, 480 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow, 2023.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Part 1. Close to home 1999-2000. Jersey basements & the Manhattan skyline -- The first fancy tour bus to pull up at the Manville Elks Lodge -- Long Island & the last silent majority show -- "If Pete wasn't playing for us, he was moshing for us" -- All the way down I-95 -- And out to the great wide open -- Part 2. Will you tell all your friends ... 2001-2002. Napster, the music biz & the biggest band to come out of Mesa, Arizona -- New Jersey, 2001 -- "At the time, they were Geoff from Thursday's weird friends" -- The Long Island lyric pool -- "If half the people hate you, the other half are going to defend you to the death" -- "It wasn't like we thought we were going places, because there was nowhere to go in Utah" -- "Better get a little glossier, or you're gonna fall behind the crowd" -- "It didn't matter that 99% of mainstream America didn't know who he was" -- Part 3. The match you strike to incinerate 2003-2004. Private jets & magazine covers -- "I remember playing Hollister. It was a riot at the mall, basically" -- "If you don't sign this band, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life" -- "Love in the face of the apocalypse" -- New friend request -- Part 4. "The pinnacle of hype," 2005. Taste of chaos, 2005 -- Going down swinging -- The eye of the storm -- "Panic! at the Disco was like pouring gasoline on the fire" -- Never sleep again -- Part 5. It's an arms race, 2006-2008. "Bigger than emo" -- "Emo people are just like us" -- "As much mischief as we could" -- Bridge & tunnel -- The black parade -- In defense of the genre -- "It was a reckoning to have this young woman overtake the scene" -- Takeover -- The band in a bubble -- The end of the earth -- "They took the exclamation point off their name" -- "When your fans start dressing like you, you gotta find the next thing" -- "Total, complete transformation" -- Part 6. Epilogue. We'll carry on.

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Emo (Music) > United States > History and criticism.
Rock music > United States > History and criticism.
Rock musicians > New York (State) > New York > Interviews.
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Biography.
Interviews.

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