Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Feeble Little Horse, crushed, Balmora Q&A, more

Three album reviews, my take on Pittsburgh indie's biggest night, and a trend-watching Q&A.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Dead Calm, Total Wife live, Cusp Q&A more

An indie-rock dispatch from Chasing Sundays HQ.

Blog

Emmure, deathcore extremism, and hitting the edgelord dead-end

Why Emmure -- nihilistic, violent, extreme -- are the 21st century's most prescient band.

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Frost Children, Wednesday, Nyxy Nyx, more

AOTY contenders, above-average offerings, and some absolute bullshit.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Deafheaven, Cloud Nothings, Maura Weaver Q&A, more

Three live reports, a couple record reviews, and an interview with a musician I've long admired.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Fleshwater, Sword II, End It Q&A, more

Reviews, an interview, and a living room mosh tutorial in photo form.

Paid-members only

Playlist

100-song playlist: Alex G, Warren Zevon, It Dies Today, more

Plus: gloomy ambient-techno, cosmic rage-rap, droll folk-rock, menacing beatdown, etc.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: The Hives, forever ☆, Total Wife Q&A, more

Four album reviews -- shoegaze, garage-rock, "cloud-rock," etc. -- and an interview with a genre-quaking band.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Cloud-Rock explainer, quannnic Q&A, The Virgos

My assessment of indie-rock's new frontier, an interview with a shoegazer, and a stoner-rock romp: reviewed.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Ninajirachi, 9Million, Golden Apples Q&A, more

Hardcore, hyperpop, shoegaze, power-pop, post-punk, and my report from the sludge pits.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: All American Rejects live at Sheetz, Unmoved, Jobber Q&A, more

Gas station gonzo reporting, hardcore revelations, fuzz-rock interrogations, and some very 2025 indie-pop.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: No Joy Q&A, The Armed, Fine, more

Noise-rock redemption. Dream-pop discovery. Screamo salvation. And so forth.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Fleshwater, Scarab, Aunt Katrina Q&A, more

The best hardcore LP of 2025? The year's most underwhelming shoegaze drop? Plus more catching up and checking in.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Bleary Eyed Q&A, Blood Incantation, Magic America, more

Noise-rock ranting, beatdown signal-boosting, shoegaze gushing, and prog-death frontline reporting.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Water From Your Eyes Q&A, Double Virgo, She's Green, more

Catching up on shoegaze, "cloud-rock," emo, and talking pop with an art-rocker.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Greet Death, Empty Shell Casing, Winter Q&A, more

New intrigues, old favorites, trend forecasting, and, of course, a shoegazey Q&A.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Wisp Q&A, Hotline TNT, crushed, more

Fuzz-rock, trip-hop, ambient – oh my! Plus, an emotional taste profile with shoegaze's "it girl."

Paid-members only

Interview

Humor, despair, survival: A long talk with Coma Cinema's Mathew Cothran

The grand delusions of an indie-rock auteur living in exile.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: DIIV Q&A, Contrast Attitude, Zastava, more

Six reviews, a crazy-ass live show recap, and a powerful Q&A with a shoegaze titan.

Paid-members only

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.

Paid-members only

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.

Paid-members only

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.

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Feeble Little Horse, TAGABOW Q&A, kuru, more

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

Paid-members only

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Haywire, Liquid Mike, Midwife, more

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