Chasing Fridays

A collection of 44 posts

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.

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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.

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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.

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Chasing Fridays: Queensway, Missing Link, Sn​õ​õ​per, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Chasing Fridays: Camila Cabello, Blushing, Trail of Lies, and more

My thoughts on Tryhardi XCX, Syracuse hardcore's heavyweights, some shoegaze I initially dismissed, and more.

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Chasing Fridays: 100 songs I like and 13 blurbs

In this special edition of my Friday column I reveal a huge playlist of songs I love, and then write about a handful of 'em.

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Chasing Fridays: Still House Plants, Wisp, Ekko Astral live, and more

Reviews of new art-rock, shoegaze, and rap albums, and some hardcore/post-punk gig recaps.

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5 shows in 4 days: Mannequin Pussy, George Clanton, All 4 All, more

This week's Chasing Fridays column is exclusively dedicated to the boatload of live music I saw over the last seven days.

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Chasing Fridays: Cindy Lee, Balmora, Jeff Rosenstock live, and more

*Velvet Underground voice* Friiiday morning. Yep, it's another one of those, and I'm here with this week's Chasing Fridays roundup. This week, I listened to a bunch of new metalcore (the good kind, don't worry), some indie-rock courtesy of A Country Western,

Chasing Fridays

Chasing Fridays: Camila Cabello, Xcelerate, LDB Fest, and more

My thoughts on the pop (flop?) song of the week, some hot new hardcore recs, and my experience at a Louisville hardcore fest.