TY  - BOOK
AU  - Payne,Chris
TI  - Where are your boys tonight?: the oral history of emo's mainstream explosion 1999-2008 
SN  - 9780063251281
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow
KW  - Emo (Music)
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Rock music
KW  - Rock musicians
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Interviews
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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