what is your favourite little known band? + Free single from girls

[TeeBs]

Emotionally destroys me each time.

Indeed... fantastic band (*internet high five!*)
Are you a fan of any other emo/skrams bands :3?

The Line between Screamo *if thats what your refering to* and various sub-genres of hardcore have always confused me, though I listen to some stuff that has been refered to as "Real Screamo" though I don't know how truthful that is.

Emo
Cap'n Jazz
Rites of Spring
Snowing
Owls
American Football
and
Midwest Pen pals

Screamo
Circle Takes the Square
The Saddest Landscape

Ya, "skramz" is kind a half joke term for "real screamo", but genre distinctions are always a pain... Basically, people use the term real screamo to try to distance the genre form stuff that is mislabeled as screamo, stuff like modern "mall-core" metalcore and pop punk. I guess real screamo is kinda like fourth wave emo in a sense, we've got mid to late 80's emo-core ( rites of spring, embrace, fugazi ect.), which was basically just emotional sissyish punk, 1st wave emo from the late 80's to the early 90's (the hated, moss icon, navio forge, indian summer, still life, ect.), 2nd wave hardcore emo a tad bit later on (like up to the early mid 90's) which was bands like heroin, Antioch arrow, swing kids, ect. After that we gots indie(sometimes called midwest) emo in the mid 90's which you seem to listen to alot of ^_^, less "hardcore" stuff like cap'n jazz, american football, sunny day real estate, joan of arc, ect. And then we have all the weird "post emo" stuff like crazy grindy-wall-of-sound-octave-chord-roll around of the floor- emo, aka screamo, skramz, real screamo, whatever you'd like to call it :3 (bands like orchid, pg. 99, saetia, reversal of man, neil perry, tristan tzara, ect)... and i guess now we have post post emo? Experimental post rock/post hardcore/ whatever-screamo mix bands like circle takes the sqaure, mesa verde, gospel, envy, eleventh he reaches london, city of caterpillar, malay, saddest landscape, la dispute, ect. ect.

haha, wall of text >.< sorry about that...
But now you know more about emo than you could ever care to know or need to know, so yay ^_^!?

Don't ask me how i know all this stuff off the top of my head X)... I could do this for like a lot of genres actually, i just like music ^_^

Its all good, and I guess the thing you said about screamo-post rock/post hardcore mix thing is true, my general philosophy on music is, if it starts with post and doesn't end in grunge i probably like it.

 

[Thespian]

Ok, so you've made it this far without being quoted, but Cake is not an obscure band. They're played on rock stations, alternative stations, 90s stations, and Top 40/Billboard Hits stations, ALL THE TIME. Perhaps that's a location thing, but even then, they have multiple top ten singles, and they've had their songs featured in multiple movies, and an ipod commercial. That being said, they're still awesome.



While not that obscure, Voltaire deserves more mention in this thread.

My bad, I should have done more homework first. I've only ever heard their songs played once (in a cinema, waiting for their film to start) and never heard mention of them again. Could be because I live in Ireland. I thought they'd be viable but, in all fairness, I didn't really check.

And by the by, I completely agree - Voltaire is brilliant, if not just for God Thinks. He has a talent to mix clever lyrics and a good tune without sacrificing either.