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.
Review Flipping through Spotify's 'Shoegaze Now' playlist: the good, the mid, and the terrible Like it or not, this Spotify playlist is one of the main drivers of shoegaze's current moment. I spent an afternoon listening to its contents and reacting to what I heard.
Chasing Fridays 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.
Paid-members only Interview To be at ease: A long talk with Whirr guitarist Nick Bassett In his first — and final — honest interview, the shoegaze musician goes deep on his and Whirr's history, addresses the band's controversies head-on, and muses about their future.
Chasing Fridays 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.
Show Review 42 thoughts on my first Guided By Voices show GBV played 42 songs in Pittsburgh — so I cooked up that many thoughts on what I saw, heard, and felt.
Chasing Fridays 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.
Review On Sematary, Artemas, 6arelyhuman, and liking artists I think I should hate From raver-scene trash to hauntaholic bliss, these are artists I enjoy so much that they make me question my own taste.
Chasing Fridays 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.
Chasing Fridays 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
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.
Show Review I Saw The Armed for What They Are The post-modernist hardcore troupe played Pittsburgh. It made me feel some type of way.
Show Review 10 thoughts on my first Joyce Manor show (Feat. Shawn Cooke) Shawn and I travelled to West Virginia to see the indie-punk maestros in a sold-out 250-cap room.
My Listening Week My Listening Week: The Goin' Nowheres, Fountains of Wayne, a Worm show, and more Some thoughts on power-pop, a longer album review, and a recap of a blood-gulping metal gig.
Media Mail Media Mail: Sweet twee, mod-synth melancholia, gnashing metalcore, and more The column where I review any vinyl, CD's, and cassettes people send me.
My Listening Week My Listening Week: Mannequin Pussy, A Country Western, TAGABOW & 7 more Thoughts on Philly shoegaze's best, some slowcore newcomers, some hardcore old-timers, and a lot more.
Media Mail Media Mail: Scorching hardcore, psych-y indie, bonkers Christmas tunes and more I said I'd review any physical media anybody sent me. Here's the latest batch.
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.
