The Newsletter

Tone Glow is a newsletter dedicated to showcasing the best in experimental music and film. Historically, the newsletter has featured 1) longform Q&A interviews with artists as well as 2) a writers panel, which presents capsule reviews of the same album accompanied by a rating between 0 and 10. This latter section of the newsletter is inspired by The Singles Jukebox. As of 2025, the writers panel has ceased. Interviews, however, will continue. Tone Glow’s interviews with filmmakers appears in Film Show. Tune Glue was originally used to house interviews with non-experimental musicians, but all interviews with musicians now appear under the Tone Glow section.

Starting in 2024, Tone Glow has hosted numerous in-person screenings of independent and avant-garde films. Announcements for these events are occasionally published on this newsletter but are otherwise all listed on the Tone Glow Instagram page. The films shown are largely shown on prints—16mm, 8mm, super 8mm—and provide opportunities for audiences to see rare, obscure works both new and old. An archive of Tone Glow’s film programming can be found here.

Feel free to contact the editor, Joshua Minsoo Kim, at any time via email at toneglow@gmail.com.

The Staff

Joshua Minsoo Kim, Editor-in-Chief

Joshua Minsoo Kim is a culture writer who writes about music and film for various publications including Pitchfork, NPR, The Wire, Rolling Stone, Bandcamp Daily, Resident Advisor, Cinema Scope, and MUBI Notebook. He started out writing public music reviews on Tumblr in 2011. He founded Tone Glow in 2015 before it became a newsletter in 2019.