Tuneful, inventive, modern punk rock is hard to come by these days without succumbing to the tortures of those three little letters, "E-M-O". In every suburb across America, band after band is Taking Back My Chemical Fallout, crying crocodile tears all over their overpriced guitars while the ladies up front muss their overteased hair and pout for the cameras. In the freezing alleys of working-class Boston, however, an antidote may finally be germinating in the form of THE PERENNIALS. The band may be emotive, but they are anything but emo.