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My socials keep me pretty aware of any time Slowdive performs live anywhere around the world, but last weekend’s show supporting The Cure and Mogwai in Edinburgh seemed particularly amplified, what with friends and celebrities also in attendance, and so my usual FOMO-proof self was a little sad. Not that hopping on a plane to […]
While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st century. Actually, check that. “Stuck”, which was written by Panchiko, whom they toured with last […]
Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass. I missed their set last month headlining Loveless Fest, but did catch them last year at The Drake Underground and while I was expecting something exceedingly […]
Having spent the time since the release of their debut album 27℃ last Summer touring, touring, and more touring (all in Asia of course), Hammer Head Shark have finally taken the time to release their first new music of 2026. 『ぼくらふたりきり』dropped as a single back in June, almost a year to the day from aforementioned […]
Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s Encarta 98 and TALES, and Canada’s Group Therapy. Following a couple of singles last year, the band have readied their debut […]
After following every pre-release milestone that deary set leading up to the release of their debut full-length album Birding back in April, I’ve not checked back in because following a Spring UK/Europe tour to promote the record, they’ve kept a relatively quiet Summer, prepping for another round of continental touring this Fall. But, in that […]
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.
