Starlight Society - Global Music Discovery

I know, I know, it feels like the emo scene show has taken forever, but whatever, it's done when it's done, and it's done now, so you can walk through that weird step-child from post-punk, post-hardcore and pop-punk and see what all the fuss is about.

This is one of those genres I love to bits, so it's a massive show, full of all sorts of great stuff. It runs long, is full of a bunch of bands you'll probably love and if not, well, okay, I guess they can't all be winners.

There's too much music for me to dwell on some of the stuff associated with emo - the fashion, the reports of self-harm (and whether that's a reflection of the music or the feelings expressed in it), the rise of "screamo" (and how that's mostly really just post-hardcore) and whether or not emo is a descendant of goth rock (you could make the case either way).

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Setlist:

• "Lucky Denver Mint" - Jimmy Eat World
• "Saints and Sailors" - Dashboard Confessional
• "Great Romances Of The 20th Century" - Taking Back Sunday
• "Standing By The Sea" - Hüsker Dü
• "For Want Of" - Rites Of Spring
• "Simpleton" - Quicksand
• "In Circles" - Sunny Day Real Estate
• "El Scorcho" - Weezer
• "Save Your Generator" - Jawbreaker
• "I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel..." - The Get Up Kids
• "Gloria" - Mineral
• "Emergency! Emergency!" - The Promise Ring
• "First Day Back" - Braid
• "Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday" - Hey Mercedes
• "Shallow Means, Deep Ends" - Cursive
• "Drive Onto Me" - Elliott
• "But The Regrets Are Killing Me" - American Football
• "Marching Bands Of Manhattan" - Death Cab For Cutie
• "Existentialism On Prom Night" - Straylight Run
• "Number Five With A Bullet" - Taking Back Sunday
• "Certain Tragedy" - Saves The Day
• "The Moon Is Down" - Further Seems Forever
• "Hands Down" - Dashboard Confessional
• "The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
• "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" - My Chemical Romance
• "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" - Fall Out Boy
• "Liar (It Takes One To Know One)" - Taking Back Sunday
• "Between Rupture And Rapture" - Thursday
• "(Fork and Knife)" - Brand New
• "Get It Together" - Midtown
• "Is This Thing Loaded?" - Northstar
• "Embers And Envelopes" - Mae
• "Float On" - Modest Mouse
• "Miss Murder" - AFI
• "Black Mamba" - The Academy Is...
• "Help Me" - Alkaline Trio
• "That's What You Get" - Paramore
• "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn (Take It Back To Square One)" - Hellogoodbye
• "Woe" - Say Anything
• "21" - The Starting Line
• "The Kids From Yesterday" - My Chemical Romance
• "Lipton Witch" - Sunny Day Real Estate
• "Cathedral Rings" - The Appleseed Cast
• "Closing Argument" - Into It. Over It.
• "My Instincts Are The Enemy" - American Football
• "Fences" - Taking Back Sunday