Paid-members only Azshara Chasing Fridays: Azshara, After, smokedope2016, more Am I fiendishly tapped-in or woefully tapped-out? Plus: metalcore, screamo, ambient, and "Y2k trip-pop."
Paid-members only Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Wisp, Playboi Carti, Huremic, more Musings on shoegaze, post-rock, digi-emo, power-pop, slowcore, and plain 'ole 'MUSIC.'
Paid-members only 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.
Paid-members only 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.
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.