The best music listeners don't think in genres. Their playlists move from a Four Tet record to a hardcore set to a Kendrick deep cut to something recorded in a Brooklyn basement last Thursday. They follow the feeling, not the format.

We built Sidechain for people who get uncomfortable when someone asks, "what kind of music do you like?" because the honest answer is "everything that clears the bar."

In audio production, a sidechain is a signal path where one sound controls, or ducks, another. This allows the intended frequency to cut through the mix.

Sidechain Magazine stands for a new era in music journalism. In an industry beset by normalized payola, media gatekeepers, influencer culture, and a dizzying profusion of short form media seeding, Sidechain aims to bypass the noise and capture everything that's good and noteworthy. Everything 'above the threshold.'

Sidechain is a non-discriminant BS-noise compressor in the form of an online (and one day physical) music magazine. We hunt down frequencies all along the EQ, from underground techno to garage rock, while keeping a keen eye on head-turning decibel spikes in industry news and music culture.