{"id":1829596,"date":"2026-03-16T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1829596"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:49:19","slug":"does-screamo-music-belong-to-the-youth-the-final-days-of-widowdusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1829596","title":{"rendered":"DOES SCREAMO MUSIC BELONG TO THE YOUTH? THE FINAL DAYS OF WIDOWDUSK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever noticed that the best board companies and bands are kinda similar? They are made up of friends, aren\u2019t formed with the goal of making money, and create independently from current trends. <\/p>\n

The only difference we see is that a board brand would never quit at the peak of their popularity, which is what the young band Widowdusk<\/a> recently did. <\/p>\n

Formed in 2021 by skaters Jordan Giordano<\/a> and Jace Esplin<\/a>, Widowdusk\u2019s trajectory was explosive. Originally a tight knit group of friends who frequented Apple Valley Skatepark, the band garnered a cult fanbase impassioned by their open-heart, lo-fi and sensitive screamo music. <\/p>\n

With nearly 300,000 monthly listeners and only one full album under their belt in \u201cSelf-Titled<\/a>,\u201d we couldn\u2019t believe they were stepping away from the project when it felt like there was so much potential. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s this feeling that led Ian Ostrowski<\/a>, our resident \u201cI was in a band once\u201d homie, to do some digging.<\/p>\n

Join Ian for a cathartic final performance at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, a heartfelt conversation about the band\u2019s dissolution, and more during Widowdusk\u2019s final month as a band.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\nFilmed and Edited by: Ian Ostrowski<\/a>
\nArchival footage courtesy of: Jordan Girodano <\/a>
\nEditorial intro by: Ben Komins<\/a>
\nShare this with the youth on TikTok<\/a>
\nScroll your fingers to the bone on Instagram<\/a> and Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed that the best board companies and bands are kinda similar? They are made up of friends, aren\u2019t formed with the goal of making money, and create independently from current trends. The only difference we see is that a board brand would never quit at the peak of their popularity, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,282],"class_list":["post-1829596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jenkemmag-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}