Checkout The Thespian by Alesana. The song and music video are epic!!!

I once told a girl that those bands are not emo, she should that "They are emoish"
Emoish!
does such a thing exist or can even exist?

No particular order

Snowing- Important Things (Specter Magic)
American Football- Never Meant
Algernon Cadwallader- Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Cap'n Jazz- Little League
Slingshot Dakota- Until The Day I Die
Circle Takes The Square- Non Objective Point Of Karma
Pedro The Lion- The Poison
Castevet- Plays One On TV
The Promise Ring- A Picture Postcard
Owls- Anyone Can Have A Good Time

I like the coexistence of screamo and Midwest emo here. I definitely feel like this forum is going south, but it looks like there are still some "real emo" holdouts here.

Here's a two-months-late followup to a previous post: Two cool "articles" about "Aren't You Angel" and "Waiting Room"
Online Notebook

Just North of Something Important

I just listened to Native Nod's album for the first time in two years. Such brilliant music. 'Tangled' is one of my favourite emo/screamo tracks, but all 9 tracks are masterpieces of tense and nervy hardcore music. Gonna break out some more old favourites in the next few days, starting with some Moss Icon and Indian Summer tomorrow.

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Wouldn't say these are all time emo favs but depending on what mood I'm in these are some emo songs I really like. That's a big factor for me. Entry level stuff inc in no order.

"To Satisfy"- Mohinder
"Bivouac" or "Shirt"- Jawbreaker
"Long Out"- Christie Front Drive
"A Crater to Cough in"- Circle Takes the Square
"Savory"- Jawbox
"7 Stop Hold Restart" Bear vs. Shark
"Visible Distance" Universal Order of Armageddon
"Gravity"- Moss Icon
"Shiner"- Rodan (doubt they count if you wanna be technical about it but w.e)
"Blue Boy"- Texas is the Reason

Houdini Logic - Circle Takes the Square
Untitled 2 - I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook
Conversation With Dr. Seussicide - I Hate Myself
Sugar Pill - Indian Summer
A Small World - I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Punk Rock in the Wrong Hands - Pg.99
In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate
The Day's Refrain - Texas Is the Reason
Crowquill - Circle Takes the Square
We Bleed the Commonweath - Orchid

Not emo

Jimmy Eat World - Claire
The Get Up Kids - Fall Semester
dbs - Aspirations
Grade - When Something Goes To Your Head
Saves The Day - Rocks Tonic Juice Magic
Jawbreaker - Fireman
Elliott - Shallow Like Your Breath
Braid - The New Nathan Detroits
The Anniversary - D In Detroit
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

Meh, people have differing opinions on what emo is these days. This is what I considered emo during my high school days. Rebut if you must. :-)