Most people met Jimmy Eat World in 2001, when their single "The Middle" - off the album Bleed American, which was renamed after 9/11 - peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track's sweat-glistened, make-out-panty-party music video garnered frequent squeals on MTV's Total Request Live. But before the band broke into the mainstream, they were a mainstay in the second-wave emo scene.
While Jimmy Eat World's punk-tinged second album, Static Prevails, garnered the group a faithful following, it was 1999's layered, expansive Clarity that solidified its spot on the tearstained cheeks of emo kids everywhere. From the twinkling refrain of "Can you still feel the butterflies" on "For Me This is Heaven" to the 16-minute deconstructed fade-out of "Goodbye Sky Harbor," Clarity became a cult classic, prompting Blender to say it "established a foundation for 21st century emo."
-Tara Morgan
8 p.m., $25-$60. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.
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