Simultaneously, Greenwald charts the bloodless revolution taking place on the Internet, where the homegrown online diaries of LiveJournal.com and Makeoutclub.com connect fans to a new universe of music--and to one another. "The Web," he says, "allows them access to this without having to get a driver's license or go to a scary record store."
Like the all-inclusive scene it describes, Nothing Feels Good puts performers like Chris Carrabba and anonymous Internet denizens with screen names like EMO IS NOT A TREND on the same level, reflecting a world in which everyone is disaffected in different ways, but still equal. "Community sites are basically like rock shows--they're an invented space, but a safe space, where you control how you present yourself," says Greenwald. "You can wear Abercrombie and still be conflicted."
