A California city is emo’s epicenter, and this is where they shop – By Andrew Pridgen (SFGate) / Oct 28, 2023
If there’s a place that really gets how emo looks and feels — and knows that emo really never goes out of style, because emo wouldn’t care if it did — it’s in the beating black heart of the Central Valley.
Last December, Google’s Local Year in Search determined that “the Bakersfield, CA area searched for emo music more than anywhere in the U.S.” Since Bakersfield is the nation’s current undisputed epicenter for exploring one’s own darkest emotional depths, there has to be a place where these forlorn masses can gather.
And there is.
A tiny shop called Stage Fright Clothing in the middle of Bakersfield’s downtown retail corridor supplies all who’ve felt misunderstood, mistrusted or just a little mistaken for being someone or something else.
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