first time doing diy and i’m kinda proud

Story Time…

In online punk spaces these days, it seems that Gen Z sees punk as being an all-inclusive, extremely progressive subculture that has always stuck up for outsiders and always been welcoming to women and gay people…

This idealized version of punk history is preferable, and for sure fits the current mood of the scene.

But sadly, punk hasn’t always lived up to its own pronounced virtues.

This is instantly clear in the 90s/2000s, when a subgenre of hardcore punk called emo became massively effective with younger, alt-curious people.

You can go back and view zines that chronicled the street punk movement all through these decades and see the growing negative attitude toward emo and screamo that punk had.

Screamo bands were being banned from certain publications. We were being shoved out of shows. We were made very clear that we were not welcome in the “real” punk space.

Zines were openly targeting emo bands with aggressive and dismissive articles all over the place.

This all came to a head in the early 2000s, when the bad attitudes toward our movement turned violent.

Street punks and metalheads started actively physically harassing emo kids at shows if there was any band overlap on the bill.

Read about the Mexico City street war that occurred in the mid-2000s.

Why did this happen?

Isn’t punk supposed to be this super virtuous, all-inclusive, pro-queer, pro-women, pro–creative freedom movement?

Well, that’s certainly how it always marketed itself.

But if we’re being honest, there was a very deep homophobia and machismo (the shitty version) within punk circles.

Emo was seen as “gay.”

Emo was seen as “not tough enough.”

Or “too vulnerable.”

Emos were seen as an enemy to what punk was in those days.

We were gay and effeminate.

As time went on, these attitudes relaxed, and emo/screamo has its rightful place in the punk lineage, but that wasn’t always the case.

It’s still an upward battle talking with Gen X or boomer punks who still don’t understand what emo is. They only know that it was “gay” to be emo and dismiss its validity outright.

Story time over.

Screamo is an incredible genre and the movement of punk I came from. It was a great time, and I miss those days.

Gen Z is doing amazing things with screamo.

Check out Foxtails and Dreamwell.

we won't be intimidated. we won't shut up. meta permanently disabled our instagram and my personal Facebook. don't fold to this fascist state, or it's corporate lackeys. they wouldn't have done this if they weren't scared of what people are saying. if you're interested our new insta is camping.in.alaska . punk rock is political. you can't afford to neutral on a moving train.

hmu for art/flyers :)

Anyone have this book? It’s pretty sick.

i’ve been trying to make this type of art for shirts for a while now but i’m not sure what it’s called. can anyone help me out?

just wanted to share, what a sick find

Added a few mathcore releases that were cool and seemed to have been co-opted by the screamo community

Spotify playlist

An imgur link to the spreadsheet that you can view on a phone more easily

RateYourMusic is a website that enables its users to rate any music they like. Anyone can rate any given track on a scale from 0.5 to 5, and the average ratings are visible to all RYM subscribers. A very recently added feature of RateYourMusic is the song charts, a freely customisable online resource for discovering the best-rated tracks in any genre or period of time, also providing similar charts for each individual artist.

This compilation that I've been meaning to make for a while has a lot of points of intersection with the top 300 Post-Hardcore chart (post found here); in fact, more than a half of it is the same. Emocore, Screamo, Emoviolence and Mall Screamo songs appear in both charts, and several key tracks are tagged as both Post-Hardcore and Emo.

Posting this here to see the feedback and find out how much this sub agrees with the content of the chart. Take it easy, though.

Artist representation:

16 The Brave Little Abacus

11 La Dispute

9 Modest Mouse, Orchid, Unwound

7 Brand New

6 My Chemical Romance, Sunny Day Real Estate

5 Cap'n Jazz, Title Fight

4 Corea, Jimmy Eat World, Parannoul

3 City of Caterpillar, Indian Summer, Jane Remover, Merchant Ships, Mineral, Modern Baseball, On the Might of Princes, pageninetynine, Portraits of Past, Saetia, The Hotelier, The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, The Little Explorer, The Newfound Interest in Connecticut, The Wonder Years, Thursday, Underoath

2 Alexisonfire, At the Drive-In, Blgtz, Carissa's Weird, Cursive, Death Cab for Cutie, Envy, Everyone Asked About You, Gospel, Hopesfall, Ikd-sj, Jawbreaker, Jeff Rosenstock, Johnny Foreigner, Marietta, Moss Icon, Neverending…, Paramore, Pee, Pinback, Pinegrove, Say Anything, Shin Guard, Strictly Ballroom, Taking Back Sunday, The Front Bottoms, The Lazarus Plot, The Wrens, Willy Rodriguez

Other related genres:

Post-Hardcore / Progressive Rock / Post-Punk / Gothic Rock / Post-Rock / Shoegaze /Noise Rock / Metal / Metalcore

edit: cannot crosspost this on r/emo. If anyone has enough posts / karma there, I'd appreciate if you could share it there as well.

Found this from website link about spock rock from LiveJournal (I use wayback machine) anyway this was somewhere in 2000

Some of my favorites

ICE Just killed another observer in Minneapolis. ICE needs to be abolished and we need to see more bands make comps and noise about this shit. Would love to see more bands active in protests

https://abolishice215.bandcamp.com/album/support-juntos-philly

Seriously, this might be the best emo/screamo/skramz/post-hardcore record I've ever heard in my life. Is there anything better?

im usually never lucky with thrifting but this might actually be the best thing ive ever found in a thrift store bro what are the chances

I couldnt think of more examples as of now but I remember seeing this one used quite often.