Well since the last band I wrote about was a band I knew and was friends with, I figured this next blog would be on a band I don't know real well but still have seen them live and enjoy their music. The story behind me running into Forever, Emily starts with me going to a Skylime concert in Buffalo, NY. I ended up getting a ride up there from Skylime's guitarist Richie Colosimo, and I was looking at my ticket, which had the bands on it and I haven't heard any of the bands on the bill besides Skylime and with the show being at a skate park I was pretty pessimistic on the sound quality of the other bands (since every damn show I've been to in a skate park there's always a bunch of shitty pop punk bands that play nothing but blink 182 covers). Also while looking at the ticket one band name caught my eye, which was Forever, Emily and the only reason why it stood out because it looked like a name of a band that you'd see at warped tour and feel like you've been robbed of you're money after listening to them, because it's typical boring boy band mallcore crap. Then when I got to the show (and my predictions on shitty blink 182 cover bands playing there was proven right by the way since 3 of the 5 bands did exactly that) I ran into a bunch of non chill-aunt punk rock looking dudes outside of the venue and they just happened to be the band members of Forever, Emily. We chit chatted quite a bit shared stories about playing at different venue ( example would be Forward Hall in Erie which is now closed I think), and just by talking to these guys gave me the impression that their band name is deceiving as hell, and I now expected that they were a decent act. Decent was an understatement, they were pretty amazing. To describe their sound wouldn't give the music justice however, I will try to attempt it. Their sound is post hardcore-ish, but it has like an 80s hard rock feel to it especially the singer's vocals, which is what impressed me the most since they were done by a huge looking dude with a pony tail and a awesome beard, and the high pitch soul singer vocals shocked me that it was coming from some guy who liked like he should be singing in a death metal band. Besides having a baptist gospel sounding singer, the have a bass player that is pretty good with playing a funky percussive style and the guitarists playing style also added even more of an 80s rock vibe to their post hardcore sound, and their drummer is definitely on the top end of the spectrum when it comes to local music. So overall despite initially having low expectations, I was glad to of been proven wrong and ran into something I haven't really heard before. 
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