Music criticism with group-chat memory.
Endless Scroll treats music criticism like a group chat with a long memory. Its rotating panel moves from new albums and yearly lists to emo micro-scenes, grunge revival detours, Oscar chatter, and industry discourse with careful ears and dry timing.
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Endless Scroll is a panel-style music podcast about records, scenes, taste, and the internet pressure around all three. It does not move like a formal review show. The appeal is in hearing several sharp listeners work through an idea together, doubling back, qualifying a claim, laughing at their own framing, then landing on something more useful than a quick verdict. Recent episodes cover new-release roundups, favorite albums of the year, annual disappointments, internet-native emo, grunge and garage-rock revival, pop, indie rock, hardcore, alt-country, and occasional film talk tied to the show’s broader cultural obsessions. The range is wide, but the center holds. Endless Scroll is most interested in how music feels inside a scene, how records inherit older sounds, and why some revivals carry energy while others arrive as empty posture. A Jet album can become a way to talk about rock memory. A new emo thread can become a conversation about genre being trapped between then and now. A year-end list can turn into a map of overlapping tastes among five regular voices. The show’s criticism is rarely clipped or definitive. It has a measured, associative rhythm, with room for personal history, small jokes, side references, and productive disagreement. Enthusiasm tends to be specific rather than inflated. Negativity can be blunt, especially in disappointment episodes, but it usually points back to production, songwriting, performance, scene context, or exhausted expectations. That makes the show feel less like a consumer guide and more like a continuing conversation among people who remember too much music to treat any new release as isolated. It is loose on purpose. The looseness is the method.
Made for: For listeners who follow indie rock, pop, emo, hardcore, and music-internet discourse closely enough to enjoy granular genre talk. It especially suits people who like criticism that is conversational, historically aware, and comfortable with disagreement.
What sets it apart: Endless Scroll stands out by making the panel dynamic part of the criticism: jokes, memory, corrections, and conflicting taste all shape the final read. It feels less like published verdicts being read aloud and more like a room of critics thinking in real time.
Endless Scroll is a podcast about internet culture, music, and the music industry. Each week hosts Eli Enis, Miranda Reinert, Eric Bennett and Michael Brooks discuss new albums, industry discourse, and music journalism.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Endless Scroll makes album criticism social, specific, and usefully disputable, with close attention to how records work rather than where consensus lands.
Endless Scroll turns album criticism into a lively group argument, with Eli Enis, Eric Bennett, Michael Brooks, Miranda Reinert, and Grace Robbins-Somerville testing their reactions against one another.
A pop single gets called corny and brilliant; your group chat would need two separate threads.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Brooks returns for a frank take on Jet and a loose conversation about remembered guitar rock.
Michael Brooks returns to join Eli Ennis, and the grunge bruvs pick up with the easy familiarity of two people who have spent plenty of time talking records. They recall earlier conversations about Bush and Candlebox before turning to Jet's Get Born.
A loose, argumentative music conversation about album context, Olivia Rodrigo, Robin, and Brennan Weddell's poppy alt-country.
Endless Scroll turns a messy run of music news into a sharper conversation about how album context can reshape a first listen. The hosts start with Olivia Rodrigo's announced third album and its long lowercase title, then move through singles like "Dopamine" and "Existential."…
A loose music-news detour finds its clearest conviction in Brennan Weddle's poppy alt-country.
Endless Scroll turns a messy music-news day into a loose, funny run through indie rock and pop opinion. The panel opens on Olivia Rodrigo's announced third album and its long lowercase title, then settles into a Robin record framed as horny, playful, fun, funny, and enchanting.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Annual Songlines Music Awards ceremonies spotlighting global artists, from Afrobeat to sevda.
A high schooler's music diary — Grammys press pass stories to family concert interviews.
Stephen Hyden and Ian Cohen argue about indie rock, one Metacritic score at a time.
Endless Scroll opens with Eli Ennis, Eric Bennett, and Grace Robbins-Somerville joking that the show covers 'sex, money, bitches, and the stickiest weed' before moving into album reviews.
The hosts discuss their favorite albums of the 2020s so far, reacting to recent best-of lists.
Endless Scroll hosts Miranda Reinhart, Eric Bennett, and Michael Brooks are joined by special guest Eli Enis, a music writer for Stereogum and Pitchfork.
The hosts of End the Scroll introduce a bonus episode where they discuss the punk-themed horror thriller Green Room with musician Mister Goblin.
The hosts of the Scroll Up Podcast draft albums from 2014, discussing categories like underrated bands, Pitchfork's best new music, and Grammy nominees.
["Endless Scroll's \"Grunge Bruvs Back At It\" compares 2000s guitar rock with the afterlife of grunge.", "Eli Ennis and Michael Brooks describe grunge as \"nostalgia for 70s rock channeled through punk,\" naming Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin as the reference points.", "They then argue that the 2000s still had a crowded guitar-rock field, pointing to the White Stripes, the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Hives, Jet, Wolfmother, and Queens of the Stone Age.", "The sharpest split comes over Jet's Get Born and Wolfmother's retro-rock approach, while Queens of the Stone Age are treated as the clearest bridge to grunge through Josh Homme, Caius, Mark Lanegan, and Dave Grohl."]
["Endless Scroll opens with Eli Ennis, Eric Bennett, and Grace Robbins-Somerville reacting to Olivia Rodrigo's third album announcement, including the June 12 release date and a title they call 'word salad.'", "They then review Snail Mail's Ricochet, where Grace's Pitchfork review and the album's muddy production become the center of a debate about Lindsay Jordan's voice, sobriety, and vocal-cord surgery.", "The middle of the episode turns to Robyn's short new album, which the hosts like for its half-hour runtime and songs like 'Dopamine,' 'Existential,' and 'Talk to Me.'", "The strongest push comes from Slater's Worst Girl in America, which the hosts frame as recession-pop filtered through Lana Del Rey, Kesha, Justice, and songs like 'Crank' and 'Britney Murphy.'"]
The hosts of 'End the Scroll' discuss new music releases from March in their monthly wrap-up episode.
Elias and Miranda Reiner discuss the intersection of emo, slowcore, shoegaze, and emo rap in the context of internet-native music in 2026.
The hosts discuss their Oscar predictions, focusing on the best actress race and their opinions on nominees.
The hosts of Endless Scroll announce their return from a break and introduce a new co-host, Grace.
Endless Scroll’s 2025 disappointment episode centers on albums by Ada Lea, Haim, The Clips, and The World Is a Beautiful Place and I’m No Longer Afraid to Die.
Rosalia's "Lux" is described as "one of the, like the first time I heard those two songs back to back, probably one of my favorite memories of listening to music this year."
Music writers discuss Turnstile and the concept of 'think piece music' with guest Eli Enis.