Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

by Chris Payne

CHRISTIAN MCKNIGHT: Long Island show promoter (and later, talent buyer, Bamboozle, Skate and Surf, This Island Earth festivals) MANI MOSTOFI: front person, Racetraitor BRYAN NEWMAN: drummer, Saves the Day JOHN NOLAN: vocalist-guitarist, Taking Back Sunday (and later, vocalist-multi-instrumentalist, Straylight Run) SEAN O’KEEFE: producer, Fall Out Boy, Arma Angelus JENN PELLY: author and journalist (and Long Island native) MATT PRYOR: front person, the Get Up Kids, the New Amsterdams ANTHONY RANERI: front person, Bayside TYLER RANN: vocalist-guitarist, Midtown KATE REDDY: guitarist, 108; comanager, Equal Vision Records SCOTTIE REDIX: drummer and guitarist, the Stryder RICHARD REINES: cofounder, Drive-Thru Records STEFANIE REINES: cofounder, Drive-Thru Records ERIN RENDON: show promoter, the Bergenfield Girls KATHY RENDON: show promoter, the Bergenfield Girls EDDIE REYES: guitarist, Taking Back Sunday (and previously, Mind Over Matter, Clockwise, Inside, the Movielife, Runner Up) GEOFF RICKLY: front person, Thursday; New Brunswick basement show promoter; producer, My Chemical Romance NEIL RUBENSTEIN: front person, Sons of Abraham, This Year’s Model (and later, comedian) ALEX SAAVEDRA: cofounder, Eyeball Records GABE SAPORTA: front person, Cobra Starship, Midtown (previously, bassist, Humble Beginnings)