Lurking in the dark corners of the internet rap underground toward the tail end of the blog era was GothBoiClique, which spawned out of popular image blogging site Tumblr. The tongue-in-cheek name, coined by Long Beach, California-born Filipino singer and producer Jerick “Jay” Quilisadio aka Cold Hart, ended up sticking. Alongside Wicca Phase Springs Eternal and Horse Head, Cold Hart built the foundation of what would become one of the generation’s most influential musical movements of the 2010s and beyond, changing the definition of punk and emo. The GBC collective’s boisterous lineup of Lil Peep, Døves, Fish Narc, YAWNS, Mackned, Lil Tracy, and JPDreamthug took 2000’s rock into the modern Soundcloud age. The evolution of the word “rockstar” has changed, and by all accounts, Cold Hart and his GBC associates helped usher in an alternative to the glitz, glamor, and debauchery into a definition that acknowledges their vulnerability. Nonetheless, while he would characterize his music as “rock and roll with hip-hop and melody,” he still wants to push back against the rockstar label. Much has changed for Cold Hart. Where 2021’s Every Day Is A Day was created in the midst of welcoming his newborn daughter and moving into Long Island with his wife, Pretty In The Dark is an exhale as he settles into that routine. He’s now a father of two, having moved deeper into Long Island and adjusting to the rhythm of adulthood.