Jeremy Bolm

Bolm played the role of Jeremy Barf, guitarist of a fictional punk rock band, in the 2022 biographical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Other members of the fictional band are bassist and singer Johnny Barf, played by Johnny Pemberton, and drummer Jonah Barf, played by Jonah Ray.

In 2020, Bolm launched The First Ever Podcast. Each week, Bolm discusses a series of firsts with his guest – be they a musician, a cartoonist, a photographer, a comic book creator or some other type of creative. Guests so far have included Reba Meyers of Code Orange, The New Yorker cartoonist Madeleine Horvath and record producer Will Yip.

With Gouge Away's 2018 album Burnt Sugar, Bolm produced his first record in collaboration with Jack Shirley.

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.

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 2012, Jeremy Bolm launched his own independent record label titled Secret Voice. The label is an imprint under Jacob Bannon of Converge's own label, Deathwish Inc. Secret Voice's debut release was the self-titled 7" EP by the Canadian punk band Single Mothers.

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.

Jeremy Bolm described himself as being a "metalhead" (or a fan of metal) throughout middle school and most of high school. The first live concert Bolm ever saw was David Bowie with Nine Inch Nails in 1995. Growing up in California in the 1990s, he saw local nu metal bands such as Linkin Park, Papa Roach, System of a Down and Static-X perform live before the genre saw mainstream success.

His interest in hardcore music grew after discovering Victory Records in the 1990s. Early Victory artists he recalls enjoying include Inner Strength, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Bloodlet, Deadguy and Strife.