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List

My favorite and least favorite music of 2025 (so far)

The best albums, EPs, mixtapes, and songs I've heard this year. And some of the worst.

Playlist

100-song playlist: Billy Woods, Car Seat Headrest, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and more

Plus: kosmiche ambient, UK drill, grainy shoegaze, Chinese cloud-rap, and rawk 'n' roll.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: FearDorian Q&A, smokedope2016, Find My Friends, more

The only newsletter uniting underground cloud-rap, regional beatdown, and whimsical indie-pop.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Alex G, Wednesday Q&A, forty winks live, more

My favorite artist returns, a convo with an indie mainstay, a report from the shoegaze frontlines, and screamo.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Feeble Little Horse, TAGABOW, kuru, more

Gonzo live reporting, a Q&A with a real one, and reviews of four new projects.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Haywire, Liquid Mike, Midwife, more

The ordination of hardcore's latest genre leaders. Plus, reviews of some other stuff.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Loathe, Sin Against Sin, Magdalena Bay live, more

Eight reviews that run the gamut from severely underwhelmed to sufficiently whelmed.

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Interview

Nothing's Domenic Palermo talks Slide Away, Whirr, new music, more

A candid convo about pissing off the industry, rehabilitation, and the future of shoegaze's best modern band.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Slide Away 2025 recap + Parquet Courts

My eight favorite moments from this year's shoegaze convention, and a post-punk-related travel blog.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Big Boy, Addison Rae, Denzel Curry live, more

Some complaints, some praise, some measured analysis, and some hyperbolic glowing. The usual.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Bleary Eyed, Cortisa Star, Coma Cinema, more

All the Chasing Sundays bases are covered: beguiling shoegaze, sad indie-rock, blown-out internet rap, and old-school metalcore.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: 2hollis, Jane Remover, Turnstile, more

A glimpse at pop's future, hardcore's recent past, indie's now, and screamo's history.

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Amira Elfeky, 7 mini-reviews, Daze tour report

Mainstream nu-gaze, s-tier digicore, nose-cracking hardcore, and more.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Azshara, After, smokedope2016, more

Am I fiendishly tapped-in or woefully tapped-out? Plus: metalcore, screamo, ambient, and "Y2k trip-pop."

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Wisp, Playboi Carti, Huremic, more

Musings on shoegaze, post-rock, digi-emo, power-pop, slowcore, and plain 'ole 'MUSIC.'

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Feeble Little Horse, Gridiron, Glixen live, more

Some thoughts on new music, old music, and a live show where I felt my advanced age.

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Cloakroom, Bassvictim, Alien Boy, more

Shoegaze, electroclash, power-pop, and...more shoegaze.

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Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Cigarettes for Breakfast, Nicolas Jaar, Mojave 3, more

The most overrated (and underrated) shoegaze of 2025 thus far, some 2024 catch-up, and my long-overdue love affair with Mojave 3.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.