Jeremy Bolm is an American vocalist, record label owner, music producer and writer. In his music career, he is most known for being the full-time vocalist of the post-hardcore band Touché Amoré. He has also performed with the part-time bands Thriller, Deadhead and Hesitation Wounds. Outside of performing, Bolm runs the indie record label Secret Voice and self-publishes his own poetry zines.
Personal life
Before deciding to be a member of Touché Amoré full-time, Bolm worked various jobs in the music and entertainment industry. He worked at a local record store and did freelance work for multiple publications including LA Weekly. At Visual Data, he was the head of the shipping and receiving department, in which he was responsible for delivering episodes of The Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle to Fox Broadcasting Company. His final full-time job was working for the film and media distribution company Revolt. Bolm adheres to a straight edge lifestyle, which he was inspired to adopt after discovering and learning about the straight edge band Earth Crisis through a 1996 Ozzfest VHS compilation.
Music career
Jeremy Bolm began playing music when he was in middle school, initially as a guitarist. His first band Thriller formed in 2006 while he was in high school, which created music that he compared to Every Time I Die and The Bronx. While on a tour in Oregon, the band's van broke down. Bolm got a ride from another band while the rest of the members of Thriller lost all the tour money they earned on a game of roulette in Las Vegas, which lead to Bolm's departure. He described Thriller as a "bootcamp band" where he "learned everything to do and not to do" when being a part of a band. Bolm's primary and longest-running band is Touché Amoré. He has also been a member of Deadhead and the supergroup Hesitation Wounds. With Gouge Away's 2018 album Burnt Sugar, Bolm produced his first record in collaboration with Jack Shirley.
Between recording Touché Amoré's third album Is Survived By and waiting for its release later in 2013, Bolm was looking for ways to fill his time. He had always wanted his label Secret Voice to release things other than music, and decided to test that idea out with a personal zine. That year, he released Down Time which included tour stories, poems, advice for hosting basement shows and a transcript of his first interview ever with Jacob Bannon in 2004. The first edition of 500 copies sold out in 12 hours. In 2018, Bolm released two more zines. For Words From a Porch he compiled various writings between 2016 and 2018, while for October he compiled 31 daily poems he wrote in October 2018.
