Chasing Fridays: Ninajirachi, 9Million, Golden Apples Q&A, more
Hardcore, hyperpop, shoegaze, power-pop, post-punk, and my report from the sludge pits.| Chasing Sundays
Four album reviews -- shoegaze, garage-rock, "cloud-rock," etc. -- and an interview with a genre-quaking band.| Chasing Sundays
My assessment of indie-rock's new frontier, an interview with a shoegazer, and a stoner-rock romp: reviewed.| Chasing Sundays
Hardcore, hyperpop, shoegaze, power-pop, post-punk, and my report from the sludge pits.| Chasing Sundays
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.| Chasing Sundays
Gas station gonzo reporting, hardcore revelations, fuzz-rock interrogations, and some very 2025 indie-pop.| Chasing Sundays
Noise-rock redemption. Dream-pop discovery. Screamo salvation. And so forth.| Chasing Sundays
The former Axios reporter censures Congressional journalism's entrenched transphobia, and then reveals how her own band's music is a direct response to the horrors she witnessed on Capitol Hill.| Chasing Sundays
Some thoughts on power-pop, a longer album review, and a recap of a blood-gulping metal gig.| Chasing Sundays
Thoughts on Philly shoegaze's best, some slowcore newcomers, some hardcore old-timers, and a lot more.| Chasing Sundays
Thoughts on Guided By Voices, Cro-Mags, Dark Thoughts, Girls Against Boys and Elvis Depressedly.| Chasing Sundays
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.| Chasing Sundays
The best hardcore LP of 2025? The year's most underwhelming shoegaze drop? Plus more catching up and checking in.| Chasing Sundays
Noise-rock ranting, beatdown signal-boosting, shoegaze gushing, and prog-death frontline reporting.| Chasing Sundays
Catching up on shoegaze, "cloud-rock," emo, and talking pop with an art-rocker.| Chasing Sundays
New intrigues, old favorites, trend forecasting, and, of course, a shoegazey Q&A.| 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
The column where I review any vinyl, CD's, and cassettes people send me.| Chasing Sundays
My thoughts on Tryhardi XCX, Syracuse hardcore's heavyweights, some shoegaze I initially dismissed, and more.| 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
What do we do with socially discarded bands when they're still materially present? And other thoughts on shoegaze's most controversial band.| 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
It's been 10 years since Title Fight's genre-bending swan song. Its legacy is fascinating even though I dislike the music.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
Six new single reviews -- blackgaze, indie-pop, not-so-indie pop, more -- and a dive into the Texas shoegaze vault.| Chasing Sundays
I weigh in on the latest indie sensation, review some good and bad shoegaze, and look back at Swirlies' underrated 1998 remix LP.| Chasing Sundays
Reviews of shoegaze of all kinds -- new, old, and live.| Chasing Sundays
My review of 'Perverts' and two shoegaze-adjacent South Korean albums. Also, a celebration of Bowery Electric's underrated swan song.| Chasing Sundays
Reviews of Whirr's surprise album, a 2024 gem, and a 2025 hit. Also, a shoegaze rec from 1994.| Chasing Sundays
I investigate why Deftones are more influential on today's shoegaze than My Bloody Valentine, and why Korn and Glare are in the same playlists.| Chasing Sundays
Catching up on some 2024 releases I missed, and cracking open a record that was closed to me all year.| Chasing Sundays
Bludgeoning hardcore, fried internet rap, warped shoegaze, and Brat.| Chasing Sundays
Getting my 'Visions' checked, screamo I actually like, and just making sure I'm different at the hardcore/deathcore twofer.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
Shoegaze factors into these four reviews in one way or another – and one is a buzzer-beating AOTY candidate.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
One of metal's biggest figures gets honest about the genre's "identity crisis," the value of criticism, "shitty music" on Octane radio, right-wing metalcore assholes, Charli XCX, and much more.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
I review five albums ranging from shoegaze to electroclash, and then recap a live show from the hungriest band in indie-rock.| Chasing Sundays
I review a couple comeback singles, a visionary new album, and reflect on indie-rock that the zoomers love.| Chasing Sundays
Short blurbs on some 2024 consensus picks, longer blurbs on a couple shoegaze rippers, and a live report from the internet rap trenches.| Chasing Sundays
Reviews of Pittsburgh slow-gaze, Japanese ambient, and more. And a recap of Sunami's Pittsburgh takeover.| Chasing Sundays
Photographer Caden Clinton and I ventured into the zoomer pits and Nettspend stampedes of Ken Carson's rage-rap kingdom.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
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 Sundays
I review a new shoegaze-ish album, a hardcore-ish EP, and then recap two memorable live shows.| Chasing Sundays
Three new album reviews — slowcore, rage rap, and grunge-metal — and two live show recaps, one indie-rock and one hardcore.| Chasing Sundays
22 blurbs on music I love, and [?] blurbs on music I never want to hear again.| Chasing Sundays
Album reviews that run the gamut from shoegaze to grindcore, a little bit of hardcore commentary, and then a serious confession.| Chasing Sundays
Listen to my latest "Shit I Like" playlist and read about 15 highlights ranging from The Jesus and Mary Chain to Nettspend.| Chasing Sundays
A review of a shoegaze "comeback" album and takes on three new singles —one great, one fine, one atrocious.| Chasing Sundays
*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, some psych-pop by the inimitable Cindy Lee, and| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
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 Sundays
A hardcore-exclusive issue of my weekly column. Few music reviews, couple gig write-ups, lots of thoughts on aggressive music.| Chasing Sundays
Reviews of major and minor-label shoegaze, hardcore-adjacent pop, and power-pop that doesn't give you wings.| Chasing Sundays
On Nusic Twitter, Pop Crave is their Barstool Randos tweet like record execs. And gambling is the engine of this new bastard subculture.| Chasing Sundays
Atlantic Records signed a Deftonesy TikTok breakout. What does her trajectory say about the commercialization of nu-gaze?| Chasing Sundays
Three varieties of shoegaze, some unexpectedly great Alex G-core, and a wickedly heavy hardcore EP filled out my week.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
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 Sundays
The metalcore titans' long-awaited new album soars at a scale only they could achieve. However, its magnitude can be awe-inspiring one moment and cumbersome the next.| Chasing Sundays
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 Sundays
Reviews of new art-rock, shoegaze, and rap albums, and some hardcore/post-punk gig recaps.| Chasing Sundays
Why reading Bruce Pavitt's Sub Pop writing from the 1980s made me feel optimistic about the value of music criticism today.| Chasing Sundays
