Ten years ago, Atlantic Records exec Tom Mullen needed an outlet to discuss the origins of emo. Over the course of a decade, washedupemo.com became a veritable community where Mullen would interview artists and start a podcast that eventually evolved into the definitive source for any info related to the now widely recognized (and commercially viable) genre.
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Boys Don't Cry: The Crate Brothers celebrate two years of Emo Night Tampa
Released in October, this 376-page softcover tome features in-depth interviews with with luminaries like Chris Simpson (Mineral, The Gloria Record), Caithlin DeMarrais (Rainer Maria), and Mike Kinsella (American Football, Joan Of Arc) that candidly explain seemingly every watershed moment leading to a canon of sad songs that make us feel happy. (Anthology of Emo)
This post is excerpted from a larger music feature Creative Loafing Tampa ran in its books issue released on December 14. Read it here. Call your local record store or indie bookseller to see if these releases are in stock.
This article appears in Dec 14-21, 2017.