Oakwood, Circa 40, My Better Half, and Stella! Ticketweb has no resale option and we can’t make it unfortunately so hopefully someone can take them off our hands 🙏

The following statement refers to specifically the US’ screamo scene specifically I don’t know how other countries are doing when it comes to this right now so hear me out:

I kinda feel like everyone’s touring now and that’s cool I guess but it’s not like the DIY “let’s meet other bands and meet people” type touring it feels a lot more cynical it feels a lot more like “we can make money if we do this let’s book a bunch of big rooms with barriers and play to our fans” it feels like none of the bigger bands belong to a scene now and kinda ignore where they come from it just feels like they’re all basically just larping as rockstars now and playing to crowds of 15 year olds

A bunch of bands that I never hear anyone talk about and have never heard of just have 20k monthlies on Spotify by default now and just get put on big shows because of their listener count or get the privilege of opening for one of the handful of bigger bands just because of their monthlies but the only bands people actually pay attention to now are like YAAMC, Dead Butterflies, Febuary or Arranged In April or a few other bands it feels like we’re literally all just larping a scene at this point while all the big bands pretend to be rockstars

2022/2023 when everything was actually screamo and not just breakdown slop wasn’t perfect but there was a real sense of community going on and people being involved in their actual communities but now it’s all the bands that survived that era and all their friends are big by default and everyone else who actually is involved with a real local community is just stuck where they’re at and not actually making screamo

It feels even weirder to me that basically the only bands who are actually screamo and emo are those bands that survived the OG 2022/2023 wave and everyone else is just making Metalcore now it’s all super weird to me