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[EMO] If the Drive Thru Records label has a discernible sound, the members of New Jersey emo-core five-piece the Early November came of age chasing it. No surprise, then, that the band landed a deal with Drive Thru (despite having almost no experience playing live) which carried them from their earliest EP up through the ambitious triple-disc, The Mother, the Mechanic and The Path  quite nearly cracking the Billboard top 30. This apparently seemed like a perfect time to go on hiatus, but in typical moody young’un fashion, they began discussions of a reunion just a couple years later, and by 2011 they’d signed with Rise Records (Drive Thru having folded by that time), subsequently releasing 2012’s In Currents. Perhaps best known as the quintessential anti-punk emo band, the Early November has turned our notions of punk upside down, defying the genre’s very core by stretching into musical territories both progressive and polished while still arguably remaining true to it on some level. Out supporting Fifteen Years, a compilation of acoustically re-imagined songs from throughout their catalog, the band comes to Town Ballroom on Saturday, September 23, with Long Island’s The Movielife and Heart Attack Man, from Cleveland.