“You’re Gonna Miss it All” was released 10 years ago this past February. Modern Baseball’s (a.k.a. MoBo) sophomore album solidified their placement in the canon of indie rock and Midwest emo-revival.

The best Midwest emo albums of the 1990s were contained within the actual Midwest, for the most part. Fast forward to more recent years and we've seen bands from just about every corner of the U.S.

It’s time to dispel some myths about Midwest emo and I want to be the person who does it. If there was ever a “scene” that I was part of, it was the Midwest emo scene of the late 1990s. There wasn’t ...