My 101 Favorite Albums of 2023

It's List Season. Surely, you've already seen a ton of other Best Albums of 2023 lists. And if you're really invested in what I do, then maybe you already heard me rank my top 10 albums of the year on my podcast Endless Scroll.

Show Review

The Scope of All This Revival

I attended night one of The Hotelier and Foxing's 10-year-anniversary tour for 'The Albatross' and 'Home, Like No Place Is There.' I had thoughts.

Media Mail

Media Mail: Apocalyptic industrial, skin-searing hardcore, wicked grind and more

Reviews of new and new-ish releases from Realize, Pig City, Spy, Caveman and more.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: Cursetheknife, Dead Heat, Madball, Blood Estate

On "heavy shoegaze" exhaustion, crossover thrash that works, and finally loving a Madball record.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: Hold, Manta, Five Pebbles, Olivia Rodrigo, Steve Roden

Thoughts on slowcore, ambient, shoegaze, Olivia Rodrigo, and a tribute to Steve Roden.

Show Review

How Things Change: An Alex G Live Review

A recent Alex G show got me thinking about his fandom, his evolution, and my favorite artist ever.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 8/18/23

Thoughts on Twitching Tongues, The Hives, Bully and Mouthpiece.

Show Review

"Everyone's a Fucking Victim": This Is Hardcore 2023 Review

Hugo Reyes and I recount our wild experience at This Is Hardcore festival 2023.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 8/11/23

Thoughts on Computerwife, Militarie Gun, Only Living Witness and more.

Look Ma, I Majored in House Parties

On being a 20 years old and the Soda Bomb album that fucked up my life (complimentary).

Looking Back

I Was the Perfect Age for MySpace, but I Missed It

How being an offline tween during third-wave emo makes me a generational anomaly.

Review

10 Sub Pop-Sized Album Reviews

Midwife, Greg Mendez, Cusp and more.

Show Review

Pup and Beach Bunny Live: 10 Thoughts on Streams, Internet Hits, and Loving a Band for Years

"I'm failing upwards again / I might pull it off / If I don't fuck this up before it pays off"

Looking Back

Seek and Consume: On Sub Pop, Bruce Pavitt and Eternal Music Criticism

Why reading Bruce Pavitt's Sub Pop writing from the 1980s made me feel optimistic about the value of music criticism today.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 5/5/23

Thoughts on Blithe Field, Peezy, Superdrag and Next Step Up.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 4/21/23

Reviews of Magdalena Bay, Cindy, Initiate, Ice Spice and more.

Review

A Review of Liquid Mike's 'S/T'

Some thoughts on a band who won't be local for long.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 3/31/23

Thoughts on 03 Greedo, Slayer, No Innocent Victim, Black Country, New Road, and more.

My Listening Week

My Listening Week: 3/24/23

Thoughts on Deathcrash, Life of Agony, Pain Clinic and more.

Show Review

10 Thoughts on a Yo La Tengo Concert

My first time seeing the patron saints of ba-ba-ba

My Listening Week: 3/17/23

Mini reviews of Zulu, Judiciary, Skourge, Tanukichan, Yo La Tengo and more.

Review

A Review of MSPAINT's 'Post-American'

I wrote about this year's first entry in the Hardcore Album for People Who Don't Like Hardcore taxonomy.

My Listening Week: 3/10/23

Thoughts on Guided By Voices, Cro-Mags, Dark Thoughts, Girls Against Boys and Elvis Depressedly.

Blog

On Whirr and Navigating Canceled Bands in Canon

What do we do with socially discarded bands when they're still materially present? And other thoughts on shoegaze's most controversial band.

My Listening Week: 3/3/23

Everyone in my Twitter circle uses Last.fm to track the music we stream in a given week, and then we all join in the ritual of posting a 5x5 grid on Friday mornings that displays the last seven days' worth of personal listening data. It's a