Counting jazz, blues, spoken word, screamo, and prog rock among its influences, Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair is more emo in sentiment than in sound. It picks you up and takes you with it on its journey toward a conclusion of building something positive out of suffering, and it set the standard for album closers, which have since become something of a party trick for La Dispute.
Every hook Lilitri adds to the song increases its saturation, until it gets so bright and radiant it feels like it could give you a sunburn. Whether it was letting loose at their live shows or shuffling their lineup from six to 14 members over the years, the Virginia-based band was surprisingly composed for being such a rowdy act.
Instead of immediately jumping out of the gate, they allowed the guitars to play more delicate passages that, when they inevitably exploded into a mangled mass of distortion, came as a complete surprise. Among them were Empathy and Falling Forward, whose former members aligned in Elliott with the intention of experimenting beyond the confines of their previous work.
They still use it to close out nearly every show. While fellow Washington, D. They, too, prioritized intensity over speed, but Turner actually made an attempt to sing.
What a difference that would make. Leave it to emo to convince someone to take a breather and enjoy themselves for once. Front woman Elizabeth Elmore knew the secret to getting away with her lengthy, downer lyrics was stitching them to unapologetically melodic hooks. From bursts of anger to trademark insincerity, the musician she finds herself pining after repeatedly lets her down, onstage and off.
More than their peers, Knapsack seemed stuck between the universes of emo and alternative rock. Their songs were always a little too curiously shaped to break into the mainstream, but you can still hear the crossover potential in the sensitivity of their dynamics. Sounds all right! In many ways, Fuel would set the blueprint for bands like Hot Water Music, with dueling guitars and call-and-response vocal patterns creating a kinetic energy that was messy, urgent, and informed all at once. Vocalist Sarah Kirsch, who fronted many great hardcore bands until her death in , gave Fuel a distinctly activist outlook, singing about dehumanization, the weight of institutional racism, and the monolith of religion in ways that felt deeply personal.
While other bands were racing to make their songs wordy and desperate, Schwartz was treating daily existence like a minor annoyance, the kind that was best fought off with a soft sigh and another beer from the fridge. A month after the Rolling Stones kicked out Brian Jones, their original leader and founder, from the band, he was found drowned in his swimming pool.
His friends are enjoying themselves, the girl he loves is ignoring him, and he keeps thinking about being buried in the ground. So do they. Now, like a running joke with the best intentions, the song haunts front man Andrew McMahon to this day in the form of audience requests long after Something Corporate broke up.
But listening to McMahon shout out Jimmy Eat World and time stamps through his nasal delivery, his tone shines a different light on the song. Like all the best I Hate Myself songs, this one focuses on how tiny moments bring about big, overwhelming feelings.
Of all the bands that came up during the emo revival, Snowing was the first that seemed to approach the genre with disdain instead of reverence. Also: produce all of the other instruments so that they sound pale and faded as an old overexposed Polaroid. And then he leaps over striated power chords toward a higher octave for the chorus that rips everything apart everything in its path. When Rainer Maria came onto the scene, they did so with no regard for what people would think of them or what they sounded like.
It took a few years for Lifetime to find themselves, but when they released Hello Bastards in , the band was in full swing, with songs that invited people to mosh in between the more ruminative sections. In a interview , guitarist Tonie Joy stated that Moss Icon took very little inspiration from punk and hardcore beyond its DIY approach. Twenty-three years on from their inception and Moss Icon still sound ahead of their time. The same could be said of Bright Eyes, even if Oberst was making a protracted effort to eschew punk to formulate a kind of Nebraskan answer to Elephant 6.
The second is Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt — a protective force associated with, among other things, wild animals, woodland, the underworld, fertility, and childbirth.
While it feels fairly deflating that the examples chosen are ones of abject desperation and myth, it works within the utopian framework of the song, whose soaring post-rock influenced landscape communicates its vision better from within clouds. Across an ever-shifting tempo, guitarists Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Jim Ward dash their leads atop one another, sounding like they are trying to outpace the other at every turn.
Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala anchors it all, sounding delightfully unhinged as he guides the song toward its triumphant finale. The song is hypnotically struggling in place. When that squall of guitars storms in toward the end, it feels like a creative breakthrough.
If you ever felt alone, rejected, and confused, then you probably experienced high school. My Chemical Romance made the misunderstood look familiar, the goths look friendly, and depression look flattering.
In an era rife with antiwar songs, Desaparecidos managed to write one that still, over 15 years later, sticks out from the bunch. Bush, but it reaffirmed the potency of a call-out song going forward. You can practically see the venom leave his lips as he spits them out. No one would mistake Thursday for a screamo band in the present day, but when their sophomore album, Full Collapse, hit in , they were the first act with even a tangential relation to that subgenre to break outside the basement-show scene.
There was something almost indescribably special about Texas Is the Reason, sometimes located somewhere between their song titles — detached from the songs themselves and weaving in and out of Kennedy conspiracy theories and Twin Peaks references.
Their only album, the J. Its surge is so constant it intrudes on shoegaze from another dimension. Extreme both in sound and sentiment, their pioneering style combined the melody and poeticism of screamo with the harshness and speed of powerviolence. The song manages to reference the challenge Nietzsche posed to philosophical dogma while likening his criticism of traditional systems to the subversive possibilities of hardcore, all in one great hurricane-like swoop.
A hybrid of taut pop-punk, its more elastic cousin post-hardcore, and power pop, it defined the terms of the sound that later bands, like Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy, would ride into legitimate airplay and pop stardom. It strikes a confusing, ambiguous note that rules the rest of the record and, honestly, most of the genre.
The emo revival was already in full swing by the time Joyce Manor entered the fold, but their self-titled debut album sent ripples through the scene almost immediately. The band slowed the pace, worked through a traditional song structure, and gave Johnson the space to unfurl a vague story about a confusing romantic entanglement. They were one of the more appropriately named emo bands; so many of their riffs feel like the loose ends of a woven string.
It moved the earth around the band too; when the song peaked at No. The band that launched a 1, shits blogs, Death Cab for Cutie burrowed deep into popular consciousness, from the U. Dag Nasty made it clear on their debut album, Can I Say, that they had the hooks and they had the opinions to be timely in Long before they became goth-punk royalty, Alkaline Trio were a scrappy little punk band with a penchant for heart-on-sleeve lyricism. It is used in art and music; just look at how Leonardo da Vinci employed it in one of his most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa:.
The Fibonacci Sequence plays a big part in Western harmony and musical scales. Here are the facts:. Starting to see a pattern? These are all numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence: 3, 5, 8, Composers and instrument makers have been using the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio for hundreds of years to compose and create music.
Mozart , for instance, based many of his works on the Golden Ratio — especially his piano sonatas. Mozart arranged his piano sonatas so that the number of bars in the development and recapitulation divided by the number of bars in the exposition would equal approximately 1.
Let's take the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. In the above diagram, C is the sonata's first movement as a whole, B is the development and recapitulation, and A is the exposition. Bonus release! We brought out a freshy from Ryan Montbleau.
This is our fourth release this week. Next up, the one and only Mike Love. It was such a pleasure having him come to us and lay down the magic that he brings to every performance. Great stories are told along the way with a lot of laughs. Check out the full episode on YouTube and share with your friends!
Our fifth and final session drop with Miami indie rockers, The Hails is up. We have so much great content on the way and rolling out over the upcoming weeks. Bring a taste of Florida to your favorite space. Our entire team is truly overwhelmed with gratitude coming out of this past weekend. We had an amazing time bringing our session and podcast productions to you live.
Being able to host a much larger audience then our typical sessions at the Shack made it feel extra special sharing those musical experiences. We could not be more grateful to be coming home with so much magic that graced our stage over the last 3 days.
A special thanks to all the artists that played on our stage, on our back deck and the many ways you all have supported us along the way. Between our stage and merch booth, we got to meet so many of YOU out there.
We love hearing your Sugarshack stories from over the years, those are what keep us all motivated to continue to build this community of music lovers. Thank you Reggae Rise Up for bringing us back year after year and allowing us contribute our little piece of paradise. See you all again in March! My OG crew, the five guys that started this crazy ride with me from the very beginning. The ones that joined forces with us along the way. And the ones that joined in on the fun just for this past weekend.
Each person involved played an important role in making this weekend smooth and meaningful. Your unique energetic gifts do not go unnoticed.
Live concerts are back so that means our one takes are too! Find the link in our bio and feel that immersive perspective of walking around on stage with the band! Hold On! Bernz and Wrekonize are back at the Shack! This is a beautiful addition to their Sugarshack collection. Our good friends in Passafire are back! We love spending time with these guys and recording epic stuff like this. One of our personal favs! Hope you had a great weekend! Stay tuned for lots of fun things.
First new session drop is with San Diego reggae rockers, Arise Roots. A beautiful way to send us all into Friday and the weekend ahead.
Have you heard of Miami artist, Yoli Mayor, yet?! With a powerhouse voice and rockstar presence, she really captivated everyone here that night. This is her full set made up of originals, a cover and even a freestyle made up of ideas from the live audience.
Happy Monday! And so is Little Stranger. This song is special to our crew being a song we produced a music video for back in A beautiful tune inspired by her grandmother! First up, Tavana. This song was a request from one of our team members here and Tavana delivered!
We are very excited to announce our brand new partnership with the one and only, Trulieve. Joining forces allows us to focus even more on cultivating community through medicine Welcome to the fam!
Bernz is back! This is the title track from his latest full length album, made up of a dope blend of hip hop, rock and jazz to roll us right into Friday. On Wednesdays… we do long form content. This instrumental quartet are fellow Floridians and drove over for an afternoon to record with us.
The whole neighborhood heard this one! Pull up the link our bio and let this one ride. We recorded this one on a hot summer afternoon here in Florida. Our channel link is in the bio, turn it up and rock it. Welcome back to another week of new music here at the Shack. Kicking things off strong with an impressive performance from Mike Love.
He came with another all-star band and recorded a handful of tunes from his solo project. Welcome back Bernz! Reminiscing on our Leah Woods session and how magical it really was. Leah is incredibly talented and we love having her a part of the Sugarshack fam.
Her single sessions have been up for some time now but you can now enjoy her full set on our channel. Pull this one up, push play and let it ride! The Hails showed up here at the tail end of a good afternoon rain shower. Everything was tarped, wrapped up and stowed away. Not the best first impression but a warm welcome to a Florida summer day. So we fired up the grill and waited on the weather. The sun began to set and we were able to get everything back in place up and running with the band… example above.
We hope you all dig it too. Grab the link in our bio and rock this one in full! Bryce sits down with the one and only Mike Love to unpack his thoughts on the power of being present, the state of our world, and so much more.
The episode premieres on YouTube tonight at 8pm ET. Listen up, take notes, and get ready to grow with Mike Love! The boys are back! Hit the channel link in our bio for the full performance. A bittersweet release tonight with Ella Jet, her fifth and final song with us. Which Ella tune was your favorite?!
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