See 1 more photo
Split Lip
1,419 listeners (18,018 plays)
emo, emocore, post-hardcore, rock, hardcore
Growing up in a working class family on Indianapolis’ Southside, I always dreamed that there was something more to adolescence than the mind-numbing sense gratification of drugs and alcohol, the false coolness of smoking cigarettes, the comfortable security of apathy towards world events and the ridiculous posturing of cock rock heavy metal bands like Bon Jovi. In 1988 - at fourteen - I stumbled upon what I believed that “something more” to be - straight-edge hardcore. I had already become well versed in thrash metal and old-school West Coast punk rock like the Dead Kennedys. But, when a spiky-haired, leather jacket-wearing friend of mine since elementary school stumbled upon Revelation Records’ New York City Hardcore / The Way It Is compilation, I found my light in the darkness.
I quickly turned a friend of ours onto this exciting new scene. When he answered a classified in Maximum Rock n’ Roll from a kid on the Northside of town looking for straight-edge pen pals, we could not have had any idea what we were starting. The kid who placed the ad was named Steve Dujinske. He was a year or two younger than us and lived in Carmel, a wealthy suburb right above the Circle City. He was forming a straight-edge band with two neighbors of his based around the ideology and music of bands like Pushed Aside, Brotherhood (whose members went on to form Sunny Day Real Estate), and Youth of Today. In the coming years, many kids would hear conflicting versions of how and why the band was named. The real story goes like this…
I quickly turned a friend of ours onto this exciting new scene. When he answered a classified in Maximum Rock n’ Roll from a kid on the Northside of town looking for straight-edge pen pals, we could not have had any idea what we were starting. The kid who placed the ad was named Steve Dujinske. He was a year or two younger than us and lived in Carmel, a wealthy suburb right above the Circle City. He was forming a straight-edge band with two neighbors of his based around the ideology and music of bands like Pushed Aside, Brotherhood (whose members went on to form Sunny Day Real Estate), and Youth of Today. In the coming years, many kids would hear conflicting versions of how and why the band was named. The real story goes like this…
Similar Artists
Current, Lifetime, Christie Front Drive, Ordination of Aaron, Navio Forge, The Hated, Indian Summer… see all
See moreTop Tracks
| 1 |
 |
Crestfallen
full track
|
||
| 1 |
|
upright motive nine
full track
|
||
| 1 |
|
Show And Tell
full track
|
||
| 4 |
|
Anthem Boy
full track
|
||
| 4 |
|
Vintage
full track
|
||
| 4 |
|
Sleep
full track
|
||
| 4 |
|
Untitled
full track
|
||
| 8 |
|
For The Love Of A Wounded Woman
full track
|
||
| 8 |
|
division street
full track
|
||
| 10 |
|
Box
full track
|
||
| 11 | ||||
| 11 | ||||
| 13 | ||||
| 13 |
|
Unity
full track
|
||
| 13 |
Top Albums
Shoutbox
-
Benderson wrote:
not bad, but not my favorite emo
-
xguttersharkx wrote:
yeah, me too, but i don't think that's going to happen sadly =[
-
awkward wrote:
my #2 favorite emo band.. (after falling forward) so good. i hope kids these days discover this band, so they'll know emo wasnt always a joke.
-
yesemo wrote:
Great!!!!Emocore
-
davie_rfc wrote:
agreed
Listeners
-
newapologies
Top Listener
-
whenweescape
Top Listener
-
munyon2008
Top Listener
-
ScaryKid89
Top Listener
-
BluesSinger
Top Listener
-
x9to5loserx
Top Listener
Recent Activity
- Uczen tagged Split Lip with ‘emo’. last month
- Looksliketired connected Split Lip to the group kiss the girls and make them die. March 2008
- Looksliketired tagged Split Lip with ‘cumbo cet’. March 2008
More Information
- Links
