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early 00s The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
After School Knife Fight - Jousting with the Intent... Shikari - Robot Wars
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XBXRX - Sixth in Sixes Bucket Full of Teeth - IV
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.Gif From God - Approximation_of_a_Human Frail Hands - S/T
Terrifying Girls' High School - Spooky Girls' Gymnasium .Gif From God - Approximation_of_a_Human
late 10s | Cheers, Pricks!! - Third Eye Opening Scar
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Thotcrime - ønyøurcømputer Nuvolascura - As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination
hardcore punk early 80s
post-hardcore Bad Brains - S/T
Husker Du - Zen Arcade Millions of Dead Cops - S/T
MInutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires? Negative Approach - Tied Down
Articles of Faith - In This Life Minor Threat - S/T
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| Rites of Spring - S/T
| Embrace - S/T
| Dag Nasty - Can I Say
| Beefeater - Plays for Lovers
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| Soul Side - Less Deep Inside Keeps Pixies - Surfer Rosa
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| Fire Party - S/T | late 80s
| Turning Point - S/T |
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven | |
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san diego v <--- <--- Fugazi - Repeater ---> ---> v (see three columns to the left) |
Heroin - S/T | | | v |
Honeywell/Reach Out Split | | Samiam - Soar v | early 90s
screamo <--- ^ Mohinder - O Nation, You Bleed The Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby | Jawbreaker - Bivouac v <--- <--- Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
(skramz) ^ From Many Wounds, 1896 Drive Like Jehu - S/T | Fuel - S/T v Sebadoh - III
Assfactor 4 - Sometimes I Suck ^ John Henry West - S/T Endpoint - Catharsis | Exit Condition - Days of Wild Skies midwest emo Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Ivich - Chacun sa vérité ^ Portraits of Past - 01010101 | | Monsula - Structure (indiemo) Seaweed - Weak
Sleeping Body - Awaken ^ Clikatat Ikatowi - Orchestrated and Conducted By… | | Railhed - Tarantella midwest USA |
^ Swing Kids - S/T | | | Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology |
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---> ---> | ^ <--- <--- | | Quicksand - Slip | Braid - The Age of Octeen |
| | v <--- <--- Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart | Commander Venus - Do You Feel at Home? |
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| | Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 Lifetime - Hello Bastards | |
| | Still Life - From Angry Heads With Skyward Eyes Falling Forward - Hand Me Down | Superchunk - Foolish
One Eyed God Prophecy - S/T Merel - S/T Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly Don Martin Three - S/T | Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Shotmaker - Mouse Ear Angel Hair - Insect Mortality Navio Forge - As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into | v <--- <--- Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Universal Order of Armageddon - The Switch is Down Indian Summer - Science 1994 | | Weezer - Pinkerton ---> ---> v
Petit Printemps - Demo Anasarca - Discography Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary | v
Malva - S/T Constatine Sankathi - Baby Unicorn Tripped… | | Texas is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? | v
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| | Current - Coliseum Boysetsfire - The Day the Sun Went Out | Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive... v
pageninetynine - Document #5 | Lincoln - S/T Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game v <--- <--- Silver Jews - American Water v late 90s
Saetia - S/T | Four Hundred Years - Transmit Failure | | v
Sleepytime Trio - Memory-Minus I Have Dreams - Three Days 'Til Christmas | | | emo-pop
I Hate Myself - Ten Songs The Spirit of Versailles - The Confluence of All the Senses | American Football - S/T | Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
| | Jimmy Eat World - Clarity | Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
| post-rock | Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending... | The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
| Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die | Mineral - The Power of Failing | Juliana Theory - Understand This Is a Dream
| Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team | Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals | Jebediah - Harpoon
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| v | v <--- <--- Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You | Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
1000 Travels of Jawaharlal - Owari wa Konai v Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire | Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates ---> ---> v <--- <--- Thursday - Full Collapse
Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left... v Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness Pinback - Blue Screen Life | Cursive - The Ugly Organ
In Loving Memory - As Years Pass and Feel Like Seconds post-screamo Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis | At the Drive In - Relationship of Command early 00s
Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love City of Caterpillar - S/T The Shivering - Behind Broken Eyes Cross My Heart - Temporary Contemporary Brand New - Deja Entendu |
Hot Cross - Cryonics | Dance of Days - A história não tem fim Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have... |
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| I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook - Discography Life at These Speeds - S/T | v <--- <--- Thrice - Vhessiu
Suis la Lune - Quiet, Pull the Strings! Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo Ravelin 7 - Světasál | |
End States - Hiretsukan Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World Bullets*In - Conceive | Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
L'Antietam - S/T | Life at These Speed - To Your Health Colossal - Welcome the Problems Northstar - Pollyanna mid 00s
| | | The Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell Me About… Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
| | | Owen - At Home With Owen The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
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I Would Set Myself on Fire for You - Believes in Patterns | | | Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone v
Merchant Ships - Bummer Times Demo Kidcrash - Jokes Gazebo Penguins - The Name Is Not the Named | v v late 00s
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive Sed Non Satiata - S/T Dummo - Gelo chiama gelo | v v
Math - Descent Daïtro - Y Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna | ---> ---> v <--- v
Off Minor - The Heat Death of the Universe | | | v v
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| blackened screamo v | | Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes… This Town Needs Guns - Animals v emo revival
| Celeste - Nihiliste(s) v | | Moving Mountains - Pneuma Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers v Good Luck - Into Lake Griffy
| Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters... v <--- <--- <--- | | Castevet - Summer Fences Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader v Tigers Jaw - S/T
| | v | | Pretend - Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil Midwest Pen Pals - Inside Jokes v | indie rock
| | v | | | Street Smart Cyclist - Discography v | The Front Bottoms - S/T
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Verme - Vermica Barrow - Being Without skramzgaze | Manbearpig - Ruined Emo | | Glocca Morra - Just Married Joyce Manor - S/T |
Pianos Become Teeth - The Lack Long After So Hideous - Last Poem/First Light Deafheaven - Sunbather Errata - L'autre hémisphère Title Fight - Floral Green Joie de Vivre - The North End TWIABP - Whenever, If Ever Dikembe - Chicago Bowls Everyone Everywhere - S/T | early 10s
The Saddest Landscape - After the Lights Rinoa - An Age Among Them | | Lumber Lung - S/T Football, etc. - The Draft William Bonney - Good Vibes Spraynard - Funtitled The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You... |
| | | | Auden - Love Is Conspiracy Hightide Hotel - Nothing Was Missing, Except Me Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | Into It. Over It. - Proper |
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Youth Funeral - Heavenward | | | | | Chinese Football - S/T Morning Effort - I Heard You the First Time... Dogs on Acid - S/T |
Supine - This Eternity Churns Electric We Came Out Like Tigers - Agelessness and Lack | | | Prawn - Kingfisher I Kill Giants - S/T Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold - Autonomy Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost |
Touché Amoré - Stage Four Totem Skin - Weltschmerz So Hideous - Last Poem/First Light The Tidal Sleep - Vorstellungskraft Goodtime Boys - Rain Foxing - The Albatross | | McCafferty - Beach Boy | mid 10s
| | | State Faults - Resonate/Desperate Plaids - S/T Gates - Bloom and Brethe | | Sorority Noise - Joy, Departed |
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Foxtails - III ??? Secoué - Of Heaven Viva Belgrado - Ulises ??? Dryjacket - For Posterity
Old Gray - Slow Burn late 10s
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Black Flag - Damaged
Bad Brains - S/T
Millions of Dead Cops - S/T
Negative Approach - Tied Down
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| Rites of Spring - S/T
| Embrace - S/T
| Dag Nasty - Can I Say
| Beefeater - Plays for Lovers
| Gray Matter - Food for Thought
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| Soul Side - Less Deep Inside Keeps
| Ignition - Sinker
late 80s | Fire Party - S/T
| Turning Point - S/T
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven |
emo Naked Raygun - Jettison ---> ---> v
The Hated - Every Song | |
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hardcore emo <--- <--- | | |
(chaotic hardcore) | Slint - Spiderland |
san diego v <--- <--- Fugazi - Repeater ---> ---> v
Heroin - S/T | | |
early 90s Honeywell/Reach Out Split | | Samiam - Soar
screamo <--- ^ Mohinder - O Nation, You Bleed The Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby | Jawbreaker - Bivouac
mathcore (skramz) ^ From Many Wounds, 1896 Drive Like Jehu - S/T | Fuel - S/T
Coalesce - Give Them Rope Assfactor 4 - Sometimes I Suck ^ John Henry West - S/T Endpoint - Catharsis | Exit Condition - Days of Wild Skies
Botch - American Nervoso Ivich - Chacun sa vérité ^ Portraits of Past - 01010101 | | Monsula - Structure
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity Sleeping Body - Awaken ^ Clikatat Ikatowi - Orchestrated and Conducted By… | | Railhed - Tarantella
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v v | | Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 Lifetime - Hello Bastards
v emoviolence | | Still Life - From Angry Heads With Skyward Eyes Falling Forward - Hand Me Down
sass Reversal of Man - S/T One Eyed God Prophecy - S/T Merel - S/T Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly Don Martin Three - S/T
mid 90s Antioch Arrow - Gems of Masochism Mohinder - S/T Shotmaker - Mouse Ear Angel Hair - Insect Mortality Navio Forge - As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into |
Spanakorzo - Influx | Breakwater - S/T Universal Order of Armageddon - The Switch is Down Indian Summer - Science 1994 |
| | Petit Printemps - Demo Anasarca - Discography Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World |
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| Combatwoundedveteran - I Know a Girl Who... Saetia - S/T | Four Hundred Years - Transmit Failure
The Crimson Curse - Both Feet in the Grave In/Humanity - The History Behind the Mystery Sleepytime Trio - Memory-Minus I Have Dreams - Three Days 'Til Christmas |
late 90s The VSS - Nervous Circuits Joshua Fit for Battle - S/T I Hate Myself - Ten Songs The Spirit of Versailles - The Confluence of All the Senses |
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The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn Raein - Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left... v Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
early 00s The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety In Loving Memory - As Years Pass and Feel Like Seconds post-screamo Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
After School Knife Fight - Jousting with the Intent... Shikari - Robot Wars Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love City of Caterpillar - S/T The Shivering - Behind Broken Eyes
A.R.E. Weapons - S/T 1905 - Voice Hot Cross - Cryonics | Dance of Days - A história não tem fim
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XBXRX - Sixth in Sixes Bucket Full of Teeth - IV End States - Hiretsukan Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World Bullets*In - Conceive
mid 00s These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps... Louise Cyphre - Discography L'Antietam - S/T | Life at These Speed - To Your Health
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The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive Sed Non Satiata - S/T Dummo - Gelo chiama gelo
Math - Descent Daïtro - Y Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna
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The Saddest Landscape - After the Lights Rinoa - An Age Among Them | | Lumber Lung - S/T
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Touché Amoré - Stage Four Totem Skin - Weltschmerz So Hideous - Last Poem/First Light The Tidal Sleep - Vorstellungskraft Goodtime Boys - Rain
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 hardcore punk early 80s
Black Flag - Damaged
Bad Brains - S/T
Millions of Dead Cops - S/T
Negative Approach - Tied Down
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Rites of Spring - S/T
Embrace - S/T
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Beefeater - Plays for Lovers
Gray Matter - Food for Thought
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Soul Side - Less Deep Inside Keeps Pixies - Surfer Rosa
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Jawbreaker - Bivouac v <--- <--- Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Fuel - S/T v Sebadoh - III
Exit Condition - Days of Wild Skies midwest emo Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Monsula - Structure (indiemo) Seaweed - Weak
Railhed - Tarantella midwest USA |
| Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology |
| Boys Life - S/T |
| Braid - The Age of Octeen |
| Commander Venus - Do You Feel at Home? |
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Lifetime - Hello Bastards | |
Falling Forward - Hand Me Down | Superchunk - Foolish
Don Martin Three - S/T | Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
| v <--- <--- Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
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| Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary | v
| Texas is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? | v
| Christie Front Drive - S/T | v
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| | Elliott Smith - Either/Or v
Boysetsfire - The Day the Sun Went Out | Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive... v
Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game v <--- <--- Silver Jews - American Water v late 90s
Four Hundred Years - Transmit Failure | | v
| | | emo-pop
| American Football - S/T | Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
| Jimmy Eat World - Clarity | Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
| Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending... Starting Right Now | The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
| Mineral - The Power of Failing | Juliana Theory - Understand This Is a Dream
| Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals | Jebediah - Harpoon
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| | | | ^^^ second wave
| | | | vvv third wave
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| | Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album | post-hardcore
| v <--- <--- Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You | Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire | Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates ---> ---> v <--- <--- Thursday - Full Collapse
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness Pinback - Blue Screen Life | Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis | At the Drive In - Relationship of Command early 00s
 The Shivering - Behind Broken Eyes Cross My Heart - Temporary Contemporary Brand New - Deja Entendu |
Dance of Days - A história não tem fim Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have... |
| Mock Orange - The Record Play Saves the Day - Stay What You Are |
| The December Drive - Hanslikegunsandcrashingsounds Say Anyting - …Is a Real Boy |
| | Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends |
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| | | Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
Life at These Speeds - S/T | v <--- <--- Thrice - Vhessiu
Ravelin 7 - Světasál | |
Bullets*In - Conceive | Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
Life at These Speed - To Your Health Colossal - Welcome the Problems Northstar - Pollyanna mid 00s
| The Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell Me About… Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
| Owen - At Home With Owen The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
| Elliott - Song in the Air Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
| | Bayside - The Walking Wounded
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| | math rock, post-rock v
| | Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone v
Gazebo Penguins - The Name Is Not the Named | v v late 00s
Dummo - Gelo chiama gelo | v v
Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna | ---> ---> v <--- v
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| | v v ^^^ third wave
| | v v vvv fourth wave
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| | v v ---> ---> ---> v
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| | twinkledaddies v v late 00s
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes… This Town Needs Guns - Animals v emo revival
| Moving Mountains - Pneuma Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers v Good Luck - Into Lake Griffy
| Castevet - Summer Fences Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader v Tigers Jaw - S/T
| Pretend - Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil Midwest Pen Pals - Inside Jokes v | indie rock
| | Street Smart Cyclist - Discography v | The Front Bottoms - S/T
| | | v | <--- <--- Pinegrove - Meridian
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| | | sparklepunk The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There |
Manbearpig - Ruined Emo | | Glocca Morra - Just Married Joyce Manor - S/T |
Title Fight - Floral Green Joie de Vivre - The North End TWIABP - Whenever, If Ever Dikembe - Chicago Bowls Everyone Everywhere - S/T | early 10s
Lumber Lung - S/T Football, etc. - The Draft William Bonney - Good Vibes Spraynard - Funtitled The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You... |
Auden - Love Is Conspiracy Hightide Hotel - Nothing Was Missing, Except Me Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | Into It. Over It. - Proper |
| Crash of Rhinos - Distal Free Throw - Those Days are Gone | The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds |
| | | | I Can Make a Mess - The World We Know |
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| | | | | <--- <--- Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
| | | Donovan Wolfington - Stop Breathing | Just Friends - Rock 2 the Rhythm
| | Marietta - Summer Death Sleep In. - Settling | |
| | Chinese Football - S/T Morning Effort - I Heard You the First Time... Dogs on Acid - S/T |
| Prawn - Kingfisher I Kill Giants - S/T Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold - Autonomy Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost |
Goodtime Boys - Rain Foxing - The Albatross | | McCafferty - Beach Boy | mid 10s
Plaids - S/T Gates - Bloom and Brethe | | Sorority Noise - Joy, Departed |
| | | | I Am the Avalanche - Wolverines |
| | | | You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing |
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| | | Oliver Houston - Whatever Works | Mom Jeans - Best Buds
| | Two Knights - Effing Prince Daddy and the Hyena - I Thought You Didn't Even... | <--- <--- Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
| Sioux Falls - Rot Forever Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate Darkle - Birds, Bees, and Sweaty Palms |
| Movements - Feel Something Macseal - Yeah, No, I Know Basement - Beside Myself
| Have Mercy - Make the Best of It Dryjacket - For Posterity ??
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late 10s

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