Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
Genre: Music Biography/ Music Criticism
If you love My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy and other influential voices in the Rock/Emo genre, you’re going to want to pick this up. Filled with interviews from various ‘emo’ bands this details what it was truly like in the beginning days of the scene. From small towns to big cities, being social outcasts, having other older bands criticizing them, to dealing with misogyny & homophobia that seemed inescapable during these times, Chris Payne doesn’t shy away from serious topics. Where Are Your Boys Tonight feels like a behind-the-curtain look into the bands many in the 2000s grew up with.
Written by: Bookseller Grace