My favorite and least favorite music of 2025 (so far)
The best albums, EPs, mixtapes, and songs I've heard this year. And some of the worst.| Chasing Sundays
Fuzz-rock, trip-hop, ambient – oh my! Plus, an emotional taste profile with shoegaze's "it girl."| Chasing Sundays
The grand delusions of an indie-rock auteur living in exile.| Chasing Sundays
Six reviews, a crazy-ass live show recap, and a powerful Q&A with a shoegaze titan.| Chasing Sundays
The best albums, EPs, mixtapes, and songs I've heard this year. And some of the worst.| Chasing Sundays
Plus: kosmiche ambient, UK drill, grainy shoegaze, Chinese cloud-rap, and rawk 'n' roll.| Chasing Sundays
The only newsletter uniting underground cloud-rap, regional beatdown, and whimsical indie-pop.| Chasing Sundays
My favorite artist returns, a convo with an indie mainstay, a report from the shoegaze frontlines, and screamo.| Chasing Sundays
Gonzo live reporting, a Q&A with a real one, and reviews of four new projects.| Chasing Sundays
The ordination of hardcore's latest genre leaders. Plus, reviews of some other stuff.| Chasing Sundays
Eight reviews that run the gamut from severely underwhelmed to sufficiently whelmed.| Chasing Sundays
A candid convo about pissing off the industry, rehabilitation, and the future of shoegaze's best modern band.| Chasing Sundays
My eight favorite moments from this year's shoegaze convention, and a post-punk-related travel blog.| Chasing Sundays
Some complaints, some praise, some measured analysis, and some hyperbolic glowing. The usual.| Chasing Sundays
All the Chasing Sundays bases are covered: beguiling shoegaze, sad indie-rock, blown-out internet rap, and old-school metalcore.| Chasing Sundays
A glimpse at pop's future, hardcore's recent past, indie's now, and screamo's history.| Chasing Sundays
Mainstream nu-gaze, s-tier digicore, nose-cracking hardcore, and more.| Chasing Sundays
Am I fiendishly tapped-in or woefully tapped-out? Plus: metalcore, screamo, ambient, and "Y2k trip-pop."| Chasing Sundays
Musings on shoegaze, post-rock, digi-emo, power-pop, slowcore, and plain 'ole 'MUSIC.'| Chasing Sundays
Some thoughts on new music, old music, and a live show where I felt my advanced age.| Chasing Sundays
Shoegaze, electroclash, power-pop, and...more shoegaze.| Chasing Sundays
The most overrated (and underrated) shoegaze of 2025 thus far, some 2024 catch-up, and my long-overdue love affair with Mojave 3.| Chasing Sundays
Four singles that hit, an album that almost gets there, and a new-to-me classic that's now with me for life.| Chasing Sundays
What do Dance Gavin Dance slander, obscure Miniclip game references, and praise of avant-guitar music have in common? This newsletter.| Chasing Sundays
Thoughts on the trendiest non-hardcore band in hardcore, singular shoegaze, and when a band's iconography outweighs their music.| Chasing Sundays
