The midwest had numerous, great "emo-core" bands in the 90s. Back then, the bands represented exactly what that kind of label should entail, and that's simply, emotional hardcore. Amidst the bigger emo-core bands of the 90s like Split Lip and Falling Forward, Chalkline was one of those bands and was a little underrated. Chalkline put out their debut 7" on Toothless records called "Parade" in 1996, it contained 4 intense songs of emo meets screamo, later on they released a split 7" in the same style with Figurehead. At the end they released a 12" called: "in the present tense" which was way more melodic than their previous stuff. ---- Erasing the Chalkline An interview with Don Tyler and Matt Jauch of Solo Flyer By The Nate In 1996 a band called Chalkline formed playing a brand of hardcore that by 2000 was a mainstay in independent (and not so independent) music known now as screamo or melodic hardcore. Whatever weak name you want to give it, the music was damn good, and their release ‘In the Present Tense’ turned enough heads for them to get great gigs with bands like Reach the Sky, Boy Sets Fire, Snapcase and Brother's Keeper. A tour of Europe almost followed but for logistics reasons never happened. After four years, too many shows to count, and the loss of a drum set, I felt former Chalkline members Don Tyler and Matt Jauch might want to set things straight on the demise of the local act in 1999 and where they may be headed in Solo Flyer, their most recent endea