In the '90s, emocore/punk-pop became an extremely crowded field -- and it certainly didn't become any less crowded in the early 2000s. There were plenty of Green Day and Blink-182 disciples during the Bill Clinton years, and they were just as prevalent when George W. Bush began his second year as president. Not that one has to be a United States citizen to embrace emo; in Latin America, plenty of rock en espa±ol combos have provided Spanish-language emo. What separates emo fro...   [ read more ]

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5 Cent Deposit's third album's worth of Hot Topic-ready mall-punk, Focus on the Negative follows the post-Green Day blueprint of catchy three-minute pop songs with buzzsaw guitars and shout-along choruses, blended with just enough teen angst in the lyrics to potentially hook some Dashboard Confessional fans. The results are not quite as schematic as that prTcis makes it sound, and there are a few nifty blasts of punk-pop here, like "11729" (the zip code of Deer Park, NY, in the band...   [ read more ]

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