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I haven’t done a Cure post in a while, nor an Iterations, so let’s do both! “Boys Don’t Cry” was released as a single in 1979 but, as was the custom at the time, did not appear on the band’s debut album Three Imaginary Boys on its initial release. For the band’s introduction to the […]
Proving the dog days of Summer are a global phenomenon, Kurayamisaka released a new two-song single in『Summer Film』last week, followed by a video for the A-side today. In it, we see the band performing on the beach while a girl ditches work as an automotive mechanic to go enjoy the Japanese countryside with a girlfriend. […]
With the whole “BrooklynVegan presents” part of their upcoming tour seemingly unaffected by the whole “BrooklynVegan gutted” news cycle last week, Swervedriver are set to perform “Raise at 35″ starting in a week and a half and are offering a new (old) release to go with it in the form of raise:demos, a collection of […]
A quick one to take you into the weekend. Tokyo Shoegazer have released a second video clip from Remains, and like the video for『Missing』, it’s a pretty straight performance clip of a banger of a song given a distinct visual aesthetic by trading the multiple exposure camera techniques for high-key lighting. Short and sweet.
You may recall I said I was almost done with the Mojave 3 content, coinciding with the release of their reissues a couple weeks ago, and that’s because in the process of putting together my preceding posts, I found this set which I think warrants its own article. In my IG post from a few […]
A large part of Cephalo’s ascent in the ranks of Japanese shoegaze was the rate at which they released material, starting with their debut EP Wind Surfing School in mid-2024 and the full-length Fluorite Code at the end of that year. They followed it up with the Gloaming Point EP last November accompanied by a […]
The album cycle for DIIV’s fourth album, 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water, kicked off with the viral soul-net.co infinite website/single in Fall 2023, while they were touring with Depeche Mode and carried on through 2025 before wrapping with the release of a live document of the album – Boiled Alive – which came out in […]
I’ve been a fan of Trespassers William for almost 25 years now, going back to their 2002 second album Different Stars, a monumental document of country-space-gaze-core. You might think that wouldn’t require much effort considering their last album came out 20 years ago and they’ve been officially disbanded since 2012, but they’ve still sneakily been […]
Today’s release of the Mojave 3 reissues finally draws a line under that band’s tenure, and it’s a bittersweet moment. On one hand, it’s wonderful that these records are again in print and their existence should draw some attention from Slowdive’s new fans, but it’s also sad because there was a charm and magic in […]
Ahead of their final show next month, Tokyo dreampoppers AprilBlue have released their final single, 『ヴァージンノイズ』, which translates to “Virgin Noise” and in the words of singer Haruki Funasoko: “These are the lyrics I wrote while questioning the meaning of standing on stage with this band. I’m glad I was able to leave them behind. […]
