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"In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/ Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a once-in-a-generation exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic, taking to task the elements of toxic masculinity and crass consumerism that bled out of the early 2000s cultural milieu and ultimately led to the implosion of emo's first home and the best social media network, MySpace."--
About the author
Michael Tedder has written about music, film, the entertainment industry, television, health, and masculinity for
Esquire,
Playboy,
Money,
The Street, the
New Republic,
Stereogum,
Vulture,
Variety, the
Daily Beast,
The Ringer, the
Village Voice, and
MEL. He is the former managing editor of the music magazine
CMJ and the pop culture magazine
Paper, and was a founding editor of the critical discussion website The Talkhouse. He cofounded the New York-based music critic reading series and podcast
Words and Guitars. He lives in the New York metro area.
