New Brunswick, NJ · post-hardcore · emo

Thursday

2 upcoming festivals

'Full Collapse' pioneers — the bridge between hardcore and emo, still vital, with Geoff Rickly's yelp intact.

Thursday formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the late 1990s, emerging from the same basement-show scene as much of the state's hardcore output. Fronted by Geoff Rickly, the band paired urgent, shouted vocals with two-guitar interplay and lyrics that tended toward the political and the elegiac.

After their breakthrough on Victory they moved to Island for War All the Time and A City by the Light Divided, later returning to independent labels for Common Existence and No Devolución, which pushed further into atmospheric, keyboard-driven territory. The group disbanded in 2011 and resumed playing together several years later; Rickly has also fronted United Nations and worked as a label owner and writer.

post-hardcoreemo