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Southern Ontario (real / traditional) screamo. Screamo is a very small community but extremely passionate and active. For example a great show with well known

Southern Ontario (real / traditional) screamo. Screamo is a very small community but extremely passionate and active. For example a great show with well known out of town bands in Toronto is about 50-100 people. But we have people driving from New Jersey to waterloo (not knowing anyone) to see a show with respire, ostraca and Terry green. I've been involved in music for quite some time but never seen a fanbase this dedicated.. Currently there is a fest in Toronto (new friends fest) where you see people from all over NA with ages ranging 20-40s putting everything into making emotional hardcore. Watching a band play in a small packed record shop where the band has <1 meter space from the crowd, complemented with a slippery floor from the sweat / condensation, talking about growing up and losing their loved ones to mental illnesses while playing their hearts out was incredibly powerful to watch and I imagine therapeutic to the band. I've been trying to start to document the scene via live recordings - here's a shared folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KJj448eWVQgXSqw94GfsReUCnOH3GNtl?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KJj448eWVQgXSqw94Gfs... Favourites so far are Dianacrawls, Hundreds of AU, Terry Green But there are many amazing acts

fucking_tragedy 8y ago
I used to follow this community about ten years ago. I decided to try to see what remained and all I could find was the SoulSeek community, which is still around. I'm near NYC, so getting to see Cap'n Jazz last year and the various outfits the City of Caterpillar/pg.99 guys play in has been fun, but I'm out of the loop nowadays. Check out Pianos Become the Teeth if you haven't, they're from the East coast and have followed the typical progression from hardcore to indie emo that seems common in this space. There's a long-held opinion/joke that there's an emo revival about every decade, so I'm holding out. Thanks for this.
jackgolding 8y ago
I'm doing a similar thing with the quite a bit larger Melbourne Garage Rock scene here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3h3EjrCD3BmsZr1-rXtIA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3h3EjrCD3BmsZr1-rXtIA Trying to get to some hardcore shows in squats - I've learned a lot about people from hardcore shows.

fucking_tragedy 8y ago

I used to follow this community about ten years ago. I decided to try to see what remained and all I could find was the SoulSeek community, which is still around. I'm near NYC, so getting to see Cap'n Jazz last year and the various outfits the City of Caterpillar/pg.99 guys play in has been fun, but I'm out of the loop nowadays. Check out Pianos Become the Teeth if you haven't, they're from the East coast and have followed the typical progression from hardcore to indie emo that seems common in this space. There's a long-held opinion/joke that there's an emo revival about every decade, so I'm holding out. Thanks for this.

jackgolding 8y ago

I'm doing a similar thing with the quite a bit larger Melbourne Garage Rock scene here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3h3EjrCD3BmsZr1-rXtIA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3h3EjrCD3BmsZr1-rXtIA Trying to get to some hardcore shows in squats - I've learned a lot about people from hardcore shows.