Paid-members only Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Cryogeyser, flyingfish, Durutti Column, more Four singles that hit, an album that almost gets there, and a new-to-me classic that's now with me for life.
Paid-members only Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: The Callous Daoboys, Fakemink, Klein, more What do Dance Gavin Dance slander, obscure Miniclip game references, and praise of avant-guitar music have in common? This newsletter.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Final Resting Place, 9Million, Circle of Dead Children, more Thoughts on the trendiest non-hardcore band in hardcore, singular shoegaze, and when a band's iconography outweighs their music.
Looking Back Title Fight's 'Hyperview' is 2015's most important overrated album It's been 10 years since Title Fight's genre-bending swan song. Its legacy is fascinating even though I dislike the music.
Paid-members only Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Deafheaven, Quannnic, Jivebomb, more Six new single reviews -- blackgaze, indie-pop, not-so-indie pop, more -- and a dive into the Texas shoegaze vault.
Paid-members only Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Cameron Winter, High., Novulent, more I weigh in on the latest indie sensation, review some good and bad shoegaze, and look back at Swirlies' underrated 1998 remix LP.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Computerwife, Closedown, Hooky live, more Reviews of shoegaze of all kinds -- new, old, and live.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Ethel Cain, Asian Glow, Bowery Electric, more My review of 'Perverts' and two shoegaze-adjacent South Korean albums. Also, a celebration of Bowery Electric's underrated swan song.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Whirr, Jane Remover, Tex Patrello, more Reviews of Whirr's surprise album, a 2024 gem, and a 2025 hit. Also, a shoegaze rec from 1994.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Spirit of the Beehive, Magic America, Seefeel, and more Catching up on some 2024 releases I missed, and cracking open a record that was closed to me all year.
List My 120 favorite albums of 2024 Bludgeoning hardcore, fried internet rap, warped shoegaze, and Brat.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Grimes, Ted Williams, Vomit Forth, more Getting my 'Visions' checked, screamo I actually like, and just making sure I'm different at the hardcore/deathcore twofer.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: 2hollis, Shower Curtain, Drook, and more My budding obsession with the maven of hyper-rage, a couple indie-rock reviews, and a joint album rec/live review of a band who have the juice to be huge.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Sunshy, Knifeplay, Wisp, and more Shoegaze factors into these four reviews in one way or another – and one is a buzzer-beating AOTY candidate.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Leaving Time, The Hellp, Slow Pulp live, and more I review five albums ranging from shoegaze to electroclash, and then recap a live show from the hungriest band in indie-rock.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Superheaven, kuru, Panchiko live, and more I review a couple comeback singles, a visionary new album, and reflect on indie-rock that the zoomers love.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Trauma Ray, 9Million, Polo Perks live, more Short blurbs on some 2024 consensus picks, longer blurbs on a couple shoegaze rippers, and a live report from the internet rap trenches.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Gina Gory, Greg Mendez, Sunami live, and more Reviews of Pittsburgh slow-gaze, Japanese ambient, and more. And a recap of Sunami's Pittsburgh takeover.
Show Review Ken Carson live: going gonzo in the great chaos Photographer Caden Clinton and I ventured into the zoomer pits and Nettspend stampedes of Ken Carson's rage-rap kingdom.
Blog Warped Tour's 2025 reboot won't serve those who need it most The punk festival's tepid return is formatted for millennial nostalgists, not the teens of today.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Greet Death, Blue Smiley, Schema, and more Reviews of two new shoegaze stunners, a hardcore wallop, and an old record that came to me in the YouTube trenches.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Her New Knife, Scowl, Haywire, more I recap a long and eventful night of hardcore, ruminate on a couple singles, and re-up my annual dose of rangey psych-rock.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Julie, Being Dead, The Hives, and more A couple shoegaze reviews, some thoughts on another great album, and how it felt to see my first favorite band.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Greg Mendez, Big Nick, Fallen God, and more I review a handful of singles, a couple EP's, and one album — and have nice things to say about almost all of them.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Dummy, Draped In Black, ELO live, and more I review a new shoegaze-ish album, a hardcore-ish EP, and then recap two memorable live shows.
