Oh yes, we all love Hot Topic, sandwiched between an Abercrombie and a Hollister, they are our shining light, our only glimmer of hope, in a mall filled with preppy and self-indulgent clothes, but the fact that they are the ubiquitous symbol of scene fashion, doesn’t mean that they haven’t had their misses…

The gold phase:

Just last season someone over at our favorite retailer decided that the words “goth” “emo” and “indie” translated as “gold” “hip hop” and “gangster” and not even our impulse to love all things shiny could save these travesties of fashion:

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After a year and a half hiatus, the popular punk band Alkaline Trio are in the recording studio making their new album Agony and Irony which is out on July 1st. The band said that that with this particular album they wanted to go ‘back to their roots’ with songs closer to their early work. Alkaline Trio also stated that the music will still be dark like 2005’s Crimson but in a different way. You can check out one of their new songs on their myspace Here

Alkaline Trio’s music was popularized by their fast tempos, additively catchy choruses, and dark themes. This included things like: Alcoholism, fire, and death. The band had been around since 1996 and if you haven’t checked them out I strongly suggest you do.

Another popular band recording are The All-American Rejects releasing their third album. They stated that they won’t try anything revolutionary and are just trying to ‘go with the flow’ with this album. AAR are trying for a more ‘real’ sound, and said they are going to make every song count. The album should be released sometime mid September if ‘all goes as planned.’

If you don’t know who the All-American Rejects are you should. The bands first album wasn’t a huge success but the song Swing Swing. The song garnered much popularity but many supposed the band was a one hit wonder. However with their second album came Dirty Little Secret. Move Along won two categories in the 2006 MTV music awards.

Finally the band Anberlin is also in the studio making an album. This will be a follow up to their 2007 Cities. Frontman Stephen Christan stated ‘Luckily, this album is gonna be the best work of our careers.’ A new contract with Universal will allow them to make the album exactly the way they want to. The album is currently unnamed but is set for August 1st.

Anberlin has released many singles including: A Day Late, Paperthin Hymn Godspeed, and The Unwinding Cable Car They’re a great band and I strongly recommend them.

Be sure to check in soon, I’ll be posting Alternative Magazines ‘100 Bands you need to know in ‘08′.

If you have any news for upcoming albums, new bands, or band break ups, PM me on the forums or send me a message on my myspace

-Xenomorph

Recently the planets aligned, a white bunnie crossed my path, and I found a beautiful, caring, (and emo,) girlfriend that I can call my very own. I have no idea how this could have happened, it should have been impossible but oh well, I’m not complaining…

So, in response to the cosmic forces at work I have decided to take inspiration from my newfound experiences and write a series of pieces on emo love. I plan to write a trilogy to be released one at a time over the next week or two, so say tuned and brace yourself for all of the spine tingling, earth shattering, and heart breaking analysis of how love develops between two emos.

(oh and don’t worry I won’t subject you to stories about my love life, I’m too emo to be that mean.)

Update: I know I did say that I would post my series in a couple weeks, but I did not realize how much my AP exams would ruin my free time, I promise promise PROMISE I will get them out as soon as I can. *sincerity*

Warning: This post contains stereotyping of the word ‘Emo’. I’d advise reading ‘The difference between Scene and Emo’
to further your knowledge rather then taking what is being said here seriously.

 Alas, I must partake of you all in sending such horribly dismal news.
Now, if You understood that, good for you. If not, you should probably pay more attention in English Class.  It seems to me that the emo/scene ’season’ is over. Sort of.
I mean, seriously, what time of the year is more Emo then winter?
Lets take a look at what makes winter the perfect emo and scene season!

• The world is icy and cold for some time, just like our hearts.
• Hoodies and scarves are much more readily avilable in stores.
• The clothing shades for winter seasons are usualy greys, whites, and blacks.
• Its dark most of the day, limiting your intake of the dreaded sunlight.
• The trees are empty and bear, deviod of all colors save for darks.
• Fingerless gloves, striped leggings, and long coats start to look like a good idea to everyone

This makes it very easy to see why winter is a perfect season for most emo types. I mean seriously.
You can wear you skinny jeans and five shirts and a hoodie and fingerless gloves and be perfectly cozy and comfortable,
but no, heaven forbid the skorching sun shall come down and rain its deadly rays of…LIGHT upon us and make us sweltering hot
so the eyeliner melts right off her faces….
      No. Winter is the perfect emo season.

/End of this Randomness

It seems like the bucket is getting invaded every week by WoW clans and other weirdos with nothing better to do. We have an enormous number of visitors to the site daily, and everyone knows their are going to be the bad apples coming through.

As the bucket grows, we always find a new way to ensure that everyone is staying safe. This is why we have the rule against sharing personal information here ( such as phone numbers and addresses).

Today, were launching a new reporting system. You will now find report links through out the site such as on users profiles, under forum postings, and in private messages.

When you send us a report, a moderator will review it and decide what action to take. If you report a private message, a copy of the message will be sent to an administrator to review. We have made it easy for you to make these reports, and hope users will frequently use the reporting system.

We are still working on topic reports, image reports, and just general reports. These should be done by the end of the week.

This will help keep the bucket safe, and if you have any other ideas for how we can keep our members safe, feel free to post a comment letting us know!  

Let’s face it. Most people have something against emo scene kids. But why? Why does the term emo make some people angry?

Recently the news was talking about how emo kids were (yes, despite my previous post I will, for simplicity, still use the term incorrectly, especially when quoting the news) facing a lot of hate crimes in Mexico and were protesting the brutality. Less importantly, the Emo Bucket is frequently “invaded” by “emo bashers” who join in large numbers and attack the forums by posting dirty images and porn (which is a really funny word, btw).

The last time we were invaded, the reason we were given is that we are getting “too big”, as if this sites growth is hurting anyone. Are they afraid that we are going to get over 100k members, or even over 1 million members, and become a cult bent on destroying humanity?

As the admin here, I get a lot of hate mail from bashers. When I ask people what they have against scene kids, almost always they include “guys wearing tight pants” in their excuses. Maybe they are scared of people who wear tight pants and don’t stuff?

So. From all I have learned the last few years, the only reason I can give for people hating scene kids, is the guys wear tight pants.

Weak.

A lot of people seem to be confused between the usage of ”Emo” and “Scene“. There’s been a lot of argument over this on the forums since the bucket was created, so I figured I should post about this on the blog. 

Everyone can agree that emo is a genre of music, I hope. So, knowing that emo describes a genre of music, just as Rock or rap does, it really does not make sense to call someone a genre. For example, you would refer to someone who looked like they listened to rock music by say “Omg that guys looks rock”, and you would not describe every gangster looking person you saw as “totally rap”. So it really does not make sense when people say “he is really emo”. Emo is easier to use to label someone than rock, though, just because it has been used that way for so long, but unless you want to sound stupid you should probably use scene when talking to scene kids.

“Scene” is the word used to properly describe someone as “emo”. Scene refers to the fashion, hair, and other staples of the emo sub-culture. Using this term will make you look smarter and more in touch with the culture, rather than looking like an idiot like I said above. Again, no one can blam anyone for this as the news and media has used the genre’s name incorrectly for so long that it just sounds right.

So next time you look at someone who looks “emo”, maybe you should say they look “scene”.. Or face certain death. Okay. Maybe not death.

<3 flowmo

Atleast, it did for a day. April Fools Day is over, and Prep Bucket is once again Emo Bucket. In case some of you didn’t catch on fast enough, we are NOT becoming a website for preppy people. It was a joke.

If you missed it, a notice was posted on the homepage informing users that we were switching to a website for preppy people, and would be changing our name to the Prep Bucket. We also displayed our new, preppier logo.

You might have also noticed we blocked everyone from mentioning April Fools and replaced it with “Biscuit Eating Monkey Day”.. Sorry for teh confuzionz

Since the Emo Bucket has been growing at a lage rate, some of the newer members may be emo bashers or just rude. This makes us all look really bad so Ashr has decided to start Project Pink.

“Project Pink is an attempt to make Emobucket a more friendly and welcoming community”

If your friendly and want to be pink, go check out Project Pink on the forums

Now, I’ve never claimed I’ve been emo, or even gothic or a preppie or any of the other useless little label our society seems to stick on us, but as I began to notice certain things that just struck me as strange from having certain friends falling into these catagories.

Please don’t take me the wrong way, in no way do I want to lower myself to the things I don’t like and claim that because my friends do it, everyone else must. No, far from it.

The terms I will be using here are just to get a general idea of the people i mean, and in no way do I condone everyone for it.
So one thing I noticed in the scene/emo and any other pop-culture (Punk / Goth / Hardcore / Etc) is that, quite
often, we are exactly the same as the people we hate so much. When they say the only person you truely hate is yourself,
they’re not that far from right if you really think about it.

How many of you have said something along the lines of “I Hate Preps! They all deserve to die because they
all judge me when they don’t even know me. -Insert deregoatory and/or swear words here”.

How ironic is that you claim they all judge you when you don’t even know them, but you just refused to go sit next to some girl you didn’t know because she wore a pink ambercronkie shirt and has a lot of make up on. Is that not the same thing as one of them coming over and refusing to sitting next to you, but replacing the words ‘preppie’ with emo?

It struck me as funny that people who complain about it so much are usually doing it just as much as they are.

Another thing that struck me as rather ironic was the fact that while Emo/scene people are generally noted for being pretty gloomy and depressed, a vast majority express feelings of resentment and distress at gloomy weather more then they do sunny weather.

Huh, so a bunch of gloomy people hate gloomy weather? It actually cracked me up, this playing on stereotypes, but I’m not sure if it was actually funny or if it was because I was very tired and felt like I was going to throw up.

Hm.. Ironic really.