Writer, photographer, and Fiddler Records founder Amy Fleisher Madden‘s new emo photobook Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006) is out on October 24 via Chronicle Books (pre-order in the BV store), and she’ll celebrate its release at Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic on October 27, in conversation with Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional. Photographer Michael Dubin, whose work appears in the book, will moderate, and tickets are on sale now.
“I am so happy to officially announce that my dear friend Chris Carrabba will be joining me at Books Are Magic in New York on October 27, 2023,” Amy writes. “Chris is one of my oldest friends, we’ve been through a lot together, and I’ve stood on the side of his stage countless times—it’s going to be wild to be up there together.”
“And to set the tone right in a way that only he can—another one of my oldest and dearest friends, Michael Dubin, is going to moderate the event,” she continues. “If you’re not Dubin familiar, he’s a world class photographer that contributed so many amazing images (and so much of his time) to Negatives and he’s been such a huge part of this adventure. I haven’t been to NY in a really long time—let’s do this one right.”
Amy’s first signing to Fiddler Records, launched when she was 16, was The Vacant Andys, fronted by a young Chris Carrabba, and she also went on to release early Dashboard Confessional material on the label.
Negatives features rare and previously unseen photos of over 80 bands from the ’90s and 200s, including American Football, Alkaline Trio, American Nightmare, Armor for Sleep, At the Drive-In, Bayside, Boysetsfire, Braid, Bright Eyes, Cap’n Jazz, Chamberlain, Christie Front Drive, Circa Survive, Coheed and Cambria, Cursive, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott, Engine Down, Fall Out Boy, Far, Further Seems Forever, Hey Mercedes, Hot Rod Circuit, Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker, Jejune, Silverstein, Something Corporate, Straylight Run, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, Texas Is the Reason, The Anniversary, The Appleseed Cast, The Early November, The Format, The Get Up Kids, The Jealous Sound, The Juliana Theory, The Movielife, The Promise Ring, The Starting Line, The Used, Thrice, Thursday, Jets to Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joan of Arc, Karate, Kevin Devine, Knapsack, Lifetime, Midtown, Mineral, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Name Taken, New Found Glory, No Knife, Paramore, Pedro the Lion, Piebald, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Rainer Maria, Recover, Rival Schools, Samiam, Saosin, Saves the Day, Say Anything, Sense Field, and Senses Fail. Norman Brannon (Texas Is The Reason, New End Original, Anti-Matter), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance, L.S. Dunes), Jesse Johnson (Motion City Soundtrack), Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate, etc), Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes), Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids), and Geoff Rickly (Thursday, No Devotion, United Nations) all have essays featured in the book, which you can pre-order here.
