Where are your boys tonight?: the oral history of emo's mainstream explosion 1999-2008

Introduction

Part 1: Close to home 1999-2000. Jersey basements & the Manhattan skyline

The first fancy tour bus to pull up at the Manville Elks Lodge

Long Island & the last silent majority show

"If Pete wasn't playing for us, he was moshing for us"

All the way down I-95

And out to the great wide open

Part 2: Will you tell all your friends ... 2001-2002. Napster, the music biz & the biggest band to come out of Mesa, Arizona

New Jersey, 2001

"At the time, they were Geoff from Thursday's weird friends"

The Long Island lyric pool

"If half the people hate you, the other half are going to defend you to the death"

"It wasn't like we thought we were going places, because there was nowhere to go in Utah"

"Better get a little glossier, or you're gonna fall behind the crowd"

"It didn't matter that 99% of mainstream America didn't know who he was"

Part 3: The match you strike to incinerate 2003-2004. Private jets & magazine covers

"I remember playing Hollister. It was a riot at the mall, basically"

"If you don't sign this band, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life"

"Love in the face of the apocalypse"

New friend request

Part 4: "The pinnacle of hype," 2005. Taste of chaos, 2005

Going down swinging

The eye of the storm

"Panic! at the Disco was like pouring gasoline on the fire"

Never sleep again

Part 5: It's an arms race, 2006-2008. "Bigger than emo"

"Emo people are just like us"

"As much mischief as we could"

Bridge & tunnel

The black parade

In defense of the genre

"It was a reckoning to have this young woman overtake the scene"

Takeover

The band in a bubble

"They took the exclamation point off their name"

"When your fans start dressing like you, you gotta find the next thing"

"Total, complete transformation"

Part 6: Epilogue. We'll carry on