Wrote about The Armed's new album, getting really into Fine, seeing flowersforpersephone regenerate weirdo scene kid shit from my youth, and other new releases by Erode, forever ☆, and Dovetail. Plus, a Q&A with No Joy about shoegaze and psychedelia. elienis.com/chasing-friday…

Watching a grunge-gaze band open for the All American Rejects in a sheetz parking lot.

Just revisited and giggled at this in-depth history of Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly" that I wrote 6 years ago. Truly one of the most pivotal rock songs of the 21st century. kerrang.com/the-true-story…

After stripping away most of what made them interesting on their previous album, I expected The Armed to have fully lost the plot on their new record. I was wrong. My full review: elienis.com/chasing-friday…

Touched log

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There was a kind of civic millenarianism that Obama's election brought to liberal elites. As a result, between Buttigieg, Booker, Harris, Gavin Newsom, etc., we are saddled with a generation of C-suite nitwits in a time of monsters and tyrants.

"Eli Enis once again showing he knows nothing about shoegaze" reads like the least-clicked Gawker story from 2014

I've now published 10 editions of Chasing Down, my weekly Q&A series with artists like Wednesday, DIIV, Wisp, and more. New one drops every Friday. Read all of them here: elienis.com/interviews/

This weekend in Pittsburgh, a mob of stinky, crusty, foul-mouthed alcoholics will lay waste to a residential neighborhood with obnoxious music, unsightly clothing, and various forms of antisocial behavior. And in addition to Little Italy Days, Skull Fest will also be happening!

If the genocide of Gaza was not patently obvious to you after the dozens of openly genocidal statements made by Israeli officials in Oct 2023, to say nothing of the foundational logic of Israel itself, then you have no business pontificating on either Israel or genocide

Wrote about the corporate pop-punk satire of seeing The All American Rejects play a gas station, a very cool new ambient/shoegaze/outsider-pop comp, and new ones from Unmoved, Snuggle, and Joon Gloom. Plus, a Q&A with Jobber about NYHC, riffs, etc. elienis.com/chasing-friday…

This is my favorite Pool Kids song. The breakdown is one of the most intense musical passages I've heard all year, in any genre. Great record. youtube.com/watch?v=sV-OhR…

inadvertent.index's 'Satellite' comp is a great summation of how indie-rock and electronica are blurring right now. Cool tracks from Merely, Horse Vision, Tiffi M, and many more emerging producers/songwriters. My full review: elienis.com/chasing-friday…