okay so as you read on the home page, my favorite bands everrrrrr are the academy is..., midtown, and cobra starship. full disclosure, my passion for tai and midtown now outweighs my passion for cobras but it feels wrong to demote them and i do still love them 4eva. i can tell you everything you need to know about all of these bands and especially like william beckett, gabe saporta, tyler rann, tom conrad and when he got kicked out, etcetc. talking about these bands is truly one of my favorite things to do
also on this level is thursday, though my knowledge is every so slightly less encyclopedic. i love every single member, but pls pls pls talk to me abt tom keeley and andrew everding. im a huge nerd who tries to go to every show i can (see show listing below) so i can also get very passionate abt their performances and setlist organization. my favorite little thing they do is when they transition jet black new year to falling bomb to fast to the end. that b2b2b will kick your ass. i also am ridiculous abt geoff rickly but everyone is so i digress
my special interest is also the record label "fueled by ramen"!!!!! i devote basically all my free time to learning more about it :3 my technical origin to my fbr obsession happens all the way back in 2015 at the ripe age of 11 *insert flashback music* my only social media was pinterest and i had one friend. one day they tell me to listen to panic at the disco and the rest is history. i became very quickly obsessed with them and fall out boy. but i didnt know abt fbr yet. flash forward past many years of repression to 2021, i get into tai and cobras and gch based on association with fob and panic. and yet i still was not conciously in love with fr. until january 11th 2022, when i was gifted the fbr 15the anniversary book. immediately, i fell in love with the label and started trying to listen to every band ever signed to the label. but don't get it twisted. my love of fbr goes far beyond the "bandom"-y bands. i could talk circles around the bands signed from animal chin all the way to current signings like games we play (even though i don't like gwp LOLLL)
some of my underrated faves that aren't bandomy are days away, recover (though their one fbr album is their weakest), the impossibles, a rocket to the moon, powerspace, and this providence. just to name a few
i also care deeply abt the ppl who have worked for the label, so feel free to ask me abt john janick, fueledbyadam, or johnny minardi :3
i would be remiss to not specifically call out panic at the disco and fall out boy as favorites considering i've been listening for a decade. same with my chemical romance but the fans make me want to explode things with my mind so don't talk to me abt them. if you want to talk to me abt panic, know i have very strong opinions and am a hater from birth. my love for jon walker comes before anything else LOLLL. fob fans are relatively safe.
my "secondary" level of faves (which feels weird to call them that, but my brain sorts things by instinct so *shrugs*) include armor for sleep, the movielife, sparta, i am the avalanche, all time low (unfortunately), gatsbys american dream, and destroy rebuild until god shows. armor for sleep is miles above the other bands since ben jorgensen remembers me and gets excited to see me. he called me his "north star" once and put my art in his home office. be jealous
other bands i love: taking back sunday, the used, straylight run, phantom planet, gym class heroes, death cab for cutie, empires, say anything, bayside, bright eyes, jack's mannequin, versaemerge, united nations, no devotion, cursive, cartel, hellogoodbye, piebald, and the maine. this is just a small smattering, music is my whole life. check my last.fm for everything i listen to
september 8, 2022: thursday and my chemical romance
may 27, 2023 (adjacent festival): i am the avalanche, slaughter beach dog, meet me @ the altar, thursday, and paramore
may 28, 2023 (adjacent festival): midtown, the movielife, motion city soundtrack, the front bottoms, and phantom planet (met alex greenwald)
june 28, 2023: body thief, kurt travis, and craig owens (met craig and some members of body thief)
july 31, 2023: zeta, geoff rickly, and sparta (met geoff)
october 23, 2023: the spill canvas, the early november, and armor for sleep (very briefly talked to pj from armor)
december 21, 2023: houston calls, piebald, and midtown (met kenny from houston calls, travis and stuart from piebald, and rob fuckin hitt)
february 21, 2024: many eyes, rival schools, and thursday (very briefly talked with keith buckley. met geoff again, norman, and steve)
may 5, 2024: armor for sleep, finch, and bayside (met ben jorgensen)
june 13, 2024: downswing and destroy rebuild until god shows (talked to downswing)
june 26, 2024: such gold, be well, and i am the avalanche (met vinnie caruana)
july 16, 2024: hawthorne heights, anberlin, stick to your guns, this wild life, and armor for sleep (met ben again)
july 18, 2024: stick to your guns, tim kasher, and thursday (met tim kasher and steve again)
july 27, 2024: hawthorne heights, anberlin, stick to your guns, this wild life, armor for sleep, and thursday (met ben again, erik rudic, nash breen, christian mcalhaney, and steve again)
october 5, 2024: one fall, common sage, and sparta (met julian from common sage and jim ward)
november 10, 2024: geoff rickly and kurt travis (met geoff again, steffen gotsch, and kurt travis)
january 12, 2025: arm's length, thursday, and silverstein (had to miss silverstein bc of ableist bitches)
march 6, 2025: hellogoodbye, boys night out, and armor for sleep (met forrest kline, jet from bno, chad sabo, erik and ben again)
may 24, 2025 (boston calling): sofia isella, mon rovia, valley, the maine, all time low, cage the elephant, arvil lavigne, and fall out boy (met joe trohman at a signing)