In its heyday about two decades ago, Skelletones was West Michigan’s hot spot for young, emerging rock bands to strut their stuff, many of them performing for enthusiastic, jam-packed audiences for the first time ever.Not only that, it was the first area venue to host future punk, hardcore, metalcore and post-hardcore stars such as Against Me!, August Burns Red, mewithoutyou and Russian Circles.And for teens from Grand Rapids to the lakeshore, it was one of the only places that under-age
At one point, it looked like VersaEmerge could be the next Paramore, or maybe even surpass them. But looking back, we can see that nothing materialized to much of anything for the band. What happened? Why did the bottom fall out? And was it actually because of their own label?
This week on the podcast, Tyler unpacks the history of VersaEmerge, concluding with a conspiracy theory from a former member of the band that alleges Fueled By Ramen signed VersaEmerge in order to clear them from competing with Paramore.
Also this week we have new music from Architects, August Burns Red and a full radio rundown.
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