Chasing Fridays

A collection of 63 posts

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Chasing Fridays: All American Rejects live at Sheetz, Unmoved, Jobber Q&A, more

Gas station gonzo reporting, hardcore revelations, fuzz-rock interrogations, and some very 2025 indie-pop.

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Chasing Fridays: No Joy Q&A, The Armed, Fine, more

Noise-rock redemption. Dream-pop discovery. Screamo salvation. And so forth.

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Chasing Fridays: Fleshwater, Scarab, Aunt Katrina Q&A, more

The best hardcore LP of 2025? The year's most underwhelming shoegaze drop? Plus more catching up and checking in.

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Chasing Fridays: Bleary Eyed Q&A, Blood Incantation, Magic America, more

Noise-rock ranting, beatdown signal-boosting, shoegaze gushing, and prog-death frontline reporting.

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Chasing Fridays: Water From Your Eyes Q&A, Double Virgo, She's Green, more

Catching up on shoegaze, "cloud-rock," emo, and talking pop with an art-rocker.

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Chasing Fridays: Greet Death, Empty Shell Casing, Winter Q&A, more

New intrigues, old favorites, trend forecasting, and, of course, a shoegazey Q&A.

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Chasing Fridays: Wisp Q&A, Hotline TNT, crushed, more

Fuzz-rock, trip-hop, ambient – oh my! Plus, an emotional taste profile with shoegaze's "it girl."

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Chasing Fridays: DIIV Q&A, Contrast Attitude, Zastava, more

Six reviews, a crazy-ass live show recap, and a powerful Q&A with a shoegaze titan.

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Chasing Fridays: FearDorian Q&A, smokedope2016, Find My Friends, more

The only newsletter uniting underground cloud-rap, regional beatdown, and whimsical indie-pop.

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Chasing Fridays: Alex G, Wednesday Q&A, forty winks live, more

My favorite artist returns, a convo with an indie mainstay, a report from the shoegaze frontlines, and screamo.

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Chasing Fridays: Feeble Little Horse, TAGABOW Q&A, kuru, more

Gonzo live reporting, a Q&A with a real one, and reviews of four new projects.

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Chasing Fridays: Haywire, Liquid Mike, Midwife, more

The ordination of hardcore's latest genre leaders. Plus, reviews of some other stuff.

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Chasing Fridays: Loathe, Sin Against Sin, Magdalena Bay live, more

Eight reviews that run the gamut from severely underwhelmed to sufficiently whelmed.

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Chasing Fridays: Slide Away 2025 recap + Parquet Courts

My eight favorite moments from this year's shoegaze convention, and a post-punk-related travel blog.

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Chasing Fridays: Big Boy, Addison Rae, Denzel Curry live, more

Some complaints, some praise, some measured analysis, and some hyperbolic glowing. The usual.

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Chasing Fridays: Bleary Eyed, Cortisa Star, Coma Cinema, more

All the Chasing Sundays bases are covered: beguiling shoegaze, sad indie-rock, blown-out internet rap, and old-school metalcore.

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Chasing Fridays: 2hollis, Jane Remover, Turnstile, more

A glimpse at pop's future, hardcore's recent past, indie's now, and screamo's history.

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Chasing Fridays: Amira Elfeky, 7 mini-reviews, Daze tour report

Mainstream nu-gaze, s-tier digicore, nose-cracking hardcore, and more.

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Chasing Fridays: Azshara, After, smokedope2016, more

Am I fiendishly tapped-in or woefully tapped-out? Plus: metalcore, screamo, ambient, and "Y2k trip-pop."

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Chasing Fridays: Wisp, Playboi Carti, Huremic, more

Musings on shoegaze, post-rock, digi-emo, power-pop, slowcore, and plain 'ole 'MUSIC.'

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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.

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Chasing Fridays: Cloakroom, Bassvictim, Alien Boy, more

Shoegaze, electroclash, power-pop, and...more shoegaze.

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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.

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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.

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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.