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“Emo” is not short for “Emotional.” “Emo” does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. “Emo” is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. “Emo” is not the use of diluted, meaningless [...]

Nowadays Pop is blamed for destruction of true sence of music. So maybe it is good to search bands whole over the world to full those hole of sadness. Even if songs are in different language, climax may be unique… Here’s some examples of Polish music icons of 80′s Oddział Zamknięty Lady Pank (glam rock/new [...]

I LOVE Ben Kweller. I also love regina spektor, sublime, third eye blind, the lemonheads, dispatch, the smiths, ray lamontagne and bob marley. I also listen to ben folds, weezer, atmosphere, afroman, common, blink 182, fat freddy’s drop, the flaming lips, florence and the machines, the format, greatful dead, kings of leon, nirvana, no doubt, [...]

nirvana was a grunge band that put it mainstream with the 90′s greatest song smells like teen spirit and it altered a new course in rock music i was born when this was going on it wiped away hair metal power ballads and new wave but i like grunge it was the last great age [...]

what do you think the next generation in music is? For example in the 20′s-40′s there was swing and big band music, tehn there was rock-n-roll in the 60′s-70′s. the 80′s were madonna and whatever. 90′s, r&b. and now, hip-hop. to be honest i don’t like hip-hop as much i thought i always would, do [...]

(New of wave american heavy metal) I’ve read something saying that it does’nt exist. But this is very untrue. (Even tho I hate most nu-metal bands) there some nu-metal bands included. And the band mastodon. Comebines sludge/prog in there music. Bands that I think are okay are trivium and avenged sevenfold. Nwoahm is just label [...]

hello, i’m in a band and i feel really strong on this opinion .. it might shock you but if you grew up in the 80s you probably know what i mean .. I’M 14! so yeah .. my band plays and writes new wave music .. we understand this is a stunt in the [...]

What alternatives do we have? Give me some ideas of good UK, Brit, or other international bands that produce good alternative, new wave, electronic, pop, indie, synth, etc, music. I am in dire need of better music. Give me song names too. Bands along the lines of Bloc Party, Royksopp, Ladytron preferred. Thanks. addthis_url = [...]

First off, let me clarify I’m not a goth and I don’t claim to play the role exceptionally well. But that’s not the point anyway. The video is of course stylized and exaggerated, but it’s somewhat based on what I’ve seen and heard in reality. Of course that doesn’t mean that I view all goths [...]

A lot of 80s music was crap (though it can be enjoyably crappy). Some of it is genius. You have to appreciate the way bands took primitive keyboard synthesizers and drum machines and crafted beautiful, catchy pop songs out of them. I love Duran Duran, a-ha, A Flock of Seagulls, the Cure, Echo & the [...]