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I still remember clearly the dagger to the heart in 2004 when Luna announced they were splitting up. They were my favourite band, in a simpler time when people declared such things, and I took the farewell tour as an opportunity to go on my first rock’n’roll road trip. A few days after seeing their […]
I appreciate that it seems like new singles from some bands seem like automatic posts – because they basically are – but I’d like to point out that it’s a really exciting time in the genre because there are these new acts who are putting out really great music and taking the sound forward, and […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that current Hong Kong shoegaze starts and ends with Lucid Express – they’re certainly the flag-bearers – but if Apple Music’s RIYL algorithm is to be believed, HK’s Tofu Kingdom are right up there as well. You’d be forgiven for wanting to dismiss them on the basis of their name […]
It’s a little ridiculous that I’m posting about a Hong Kong band from Hong Kong while said band is tooling around North America and will be in my town in a week and a half or so, but here we are. I’m talking, of course, about Lucid Express who released their second album Instant Comfort […]
As much as I was recently reflecting on the end of Chromatics, I would be remiss to not point out that there has actually been quite a bit of worthy post-Chromatics music from the various former members. In 2022, both guitarist Adam Miller and singer/guitarist Ruth Radelet put out records – an eponymous full-length for […]
When it rains, it pours, and the deluge of new singles in the last little while made it so that even an epic new track from deary didn’t even get a listen until this morning as I write this, fully five days after it was released. A tribute to guitarist Ben Easton’s dog – presumably […]
Bad news for anyone hoping to glean some insight into the timeline for She’s Green’s debut album from the release of their first new song of the year – namely me. But instead, let’s focus on what we did get: “Mettle” dropped last night and is a three-minute banger that reminds us the band has […]
Every few years I go deep into a synthesizer rabbit hole – not just in terms of listening habits, but in exploring and playing the instruments (although my keyboard skills are laughably rudimentary at best). This time, the cycle was precipitated – literally – by the combination deep freeze and snowstorms that hit us at […]
Velocity Girl continued their slow and steady reunion today with their second archival release, an expanded and remastered version of their 1994 album ¡Simpatico!. Unlike the 2024 reissue of their debut Copacetic which was gussied up enough to earn the title UltraCopacetic, the new release only gets the Remastered and Expanded parenthetically and comes with […]
Catherine Wheel had established their shoegaze bonafides (not that they knew that’s what they were doing) with their first two albums Ferment and Chrome, but made a conscious pivot towards the mainstream with album number three, 1995’s Happy Days. Now keep in mind that in the mid-90s the mainstream was a wide, chaotic landscape but […]
