Eli
@eli_enis
Writing a big book about shoegaze | 🎙️ @EndlessScroll_, @violentreatment | Ex-@Revolvermag | Words @ Stereogum, Pitchfork, Fader, Billboard, Rolling Stone, etc
Been keeping this under wraps for months and it almost doesn't feel real, but it is: I'm writing the definitive book on shoegaze. It'll be out 2026 via @StMartinsPress.
Bleary Eyed's 'Easy' is one of the decade's best shoegaze albums. I talked to frontman Nate Salfi about coming up in DC punk, learning to love himself, underrated Philly bands, and what went into his band's new record. Read it: elienis.com/chasing-friday…
Palestinians told and showed the world what was happening every single day for years. They were either ignored, called antisemites, or outright mocked. Seeing people suddenly jump to attention now is one of the most profoundly dehumanizing things I have ever witnessed
At least Jimmy Carter spent the second half of his life attempting to atone for his blood-soaked foreign policy failures and ignition of the neoliberal austerity that sank this country. Obama can't even be bothered to take a moral stand against the holocaust of our time. Cretin.
I was wondering when Obama would break away from his perpetual luxury vacation to weigh in on the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza - a crime so severe it has even piqued Hillary Clinton’s concern Obama:
For this week's Chasing Fridays I wrote about: -Chemical and the shoegaze to bad noise-rock pipeline -Savage Primal Impulse's smartly stupid beatdown -Magic America's pop-gaze -ratstallion's spooky-gaze -Blood Incantation live Plus, a Bleary Eyed Q&A 😎 elienis.com/chasing-friday…
Israeli historian and genocide scholar Raz Segal told us on October 13, 2023 Gaza was a textbook case of genocide. If you aided and defended it for 22 months, it doesn’t matter what you say now, you’re complicit. You can’t say you didn’t know, and the rest of us will not forget.
The Israelis did not fail to plan. They planned very specifically to cut off food and then when re-opening it, to control it militarily and have 4 aid sites for 2 million people. This was a well thought out plan agreed to at the highest levels. Stop saying Israel didn’t plan
NYT's morning newsletter parroting @PatrickKingsley's absurd and deliberately credulous "failure to plan" framing. It wasn't the open pronouncements by Israeli officials they were cutting off food, or the bombing of and propaganda against UNRWA, guys, they just neglected to PLAN!
NYT has always been an Israeli organ that dutifully whitewashes the endless massacres, ethnic cleansing, and virulent racism of the Zionist project for a Western audience. Their coverage of 1982's Lebanon invasion should've shuttered the paper. This is but one stain among many.
This will stain @nytimes forever. If they had any shame or decency, they would retract this and apologize.
Double Virgo's 'Shakedown' is as gratifying as it is irritating. But more interesting than any bar italia (their main band) song I've heard, which made it a fun album to write about. My full review: elienis.com/chasing-friday…
Wrote about Double Virgo, She's Green, Vivienne Eastwood, Aunt Katrina, Total Wife, ear, Fernando Motta, and Jejune for this week's Chasing Fridays. Plus, a Q&A with Water From Your Eyes' Rachel Brown about pop music, BK bands, and new WFYE. elienis.com/chasing-friday…
Didn't have time this week to participate in this awesome roundup, but I just heard Beach House sampled in a Che song so I'm gonna go with that: open.spotify.com/track/51OiK90g…
Even Better is back! We rounded up our pals to write about what song best represents their music taste, and maybe what that says about them. evenbetter.news/p/even-better-…
I like what Rachel Brown told me about Water From Your Eyes' new album (their best yet). Read the full Q&A: elienis.com/chasing-friday…
God Save the Animals, House of Sugar, DSU, and Trick are his best. All the others (besides Winner, his only loser heh) are great. One of the most consistently brilliant artists of the 21st century.
do Alex G fans have a consensus on what his best albums are. Is there a generally agreed upon top 3 or 4.
Revisited this ln for the first time in a while. Just one of those records you climb inside of and never want to leave. Masterful in all regards.
It’s Mamdani who should be saying that to Sanders. x.com/aipac/status/1…
Sanders told Mamdani to “more carefully address what he’s said about Israel.” cnn.com/2025/07/17/pol…