As the ideals of the Washington, D.C. 1st wave emo movement spread across the United States, many bands in numerous local scenes began to emulate the sound as a way to marry the intensity of hardcore punk with the complex emotions associated with growing older. The style combined the fatalism, theatricality, and outsiderness of The Smiths with the uncompromising and dramatic worldview of hardcore. Although the bands were numerous and the locales varied, the aesthetics of 1st wave emo in the late 1980s remained more or less the same: "over-the-top lyrics about feelings wedded … read more
As the ideals of the Washington, D.C. 1st wave emo movement spread across the United States, many bands in numerous local scenes began to emulate the sound as a way to marry the intensity of hardcore punk with the complex emotions associated with growing older. The style combined the fatalis… read more
As the ideals of the Washington, D.C. 1st wave emo movement spread across the United States, many bands in numerous local scenes began to emulate the sound as a way to marry the intensity of hardcore punk with the complex emotions associated with growing older. The style combined the fatalism, theatricality, and outsiderness of The Smiths with the uncompromising… read more
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