The Front Bottoms + The Smith Street Band + Elvis Depressedly

New Jersey's the Front Bottoms traffic in a folk-poppy brand of emo. It's charming stuff—quirky, wry and self-deprecating—and has earned them an emphatic cult following. Lo-fi indie sad boys from a label of likeminded melancholics, Run For Cover Records (Teen Suicide, Pity Sex, Crying), set the stage.