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.
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.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Duster, Destroy Lonely, Built to Spill live, and more Three new album reviews — slowcore, rage rap, and grunge-metal — and two live show recaps, one indie-rock and one hardcore.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Ex-Pilots, Nails, Dimension Six, and more Album reviews that run the gamut from shoegaze to grindcore, a little bit of hardcore commentary, and then a serious confession.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Geordie Greep, Starflyer 59, Tanukichan, and more A review of a shoegaze "comeback" album and takes on three new singles —one great, one fine, one atrocious.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Belong, Trauma Ray, Holy Blade, and more A review of my favorite 2024 shoegaze album thus far, and some thoughts on another young 'gaze act. Plus, hardcore forecasting and Pitchfork 'Best New Music' reacting.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Better Lovers, Trace Mountains, Myspace deathcore, and more Reviews of good indie-rock, great power-pop, and bad metalcore. Then, a mini scene report on a fascinating a new trend in heavy music.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Queensway, Missing Link, Snõõper, more A hardcore-exclusive issue of my weekly column. Few music reviews, couple gig write-ups, lots of thoughts on aggressive music.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Julie, Militarie Gun, Webbed Wing, more Reviews of major and minor-label shoegaze, hardcore-adjacent pop, and power-pop that doesn't give you wings.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: MJ Lenderman, Friko, Horse Vision, and more Thoughts on a critically underrated cult album, a weird band from Stockholm, the new single from ~the next Kurt Vile~, and other opinions on music.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Luster, Peel Dream Magazine, Sex Week, and more Three varieties of shoegaze, some unexpectedly great Alex G-core, and a wickedly heavy hardcore EP filled out my week.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: TAGABOW, Cold Gawd, Charli XCX's 'Brat' songs ranked, and more I review some good and bad shoegaze, recommend some post-rock and electroclash, and then rank every song on Charli XCX's new album.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Candy, Spirit of the Beehive, Midwife, and more I review a hardcore album that caught me off guard, and then dig into new singles from two of my faves. Plus, a couple deeper recs.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Twikipedia, Candy Apple, Horse Jumper of Love A full-length review of one of 2024's best albums, my take on some great hardcore, and a futile attempt to finally enjoy that slowcore band.
Chasing Fridays Chasing Fridays: Draag, Belong, Torture live, and more I review some of 2024's hottest shoegaze releases, report on seeing the fastest-rising band in extreme music, and recap an awesome hardcore show.