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I thought maybe something was lost in translation when I saw the title of Kurayamisaka’s sneak-released first live album kurayamisaka tte, doko? #6「くらやみざかより愛を込めてツアー」（kawasaki CLUB CITTA’), which dropped this morning with just a day’s advance warning. But no, the whole proper title of the release is as provided and translates to Kurayamisaka tte, doko? #6 ‘With […]
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 […]
Arizona’s Glixen had a pretty big 2025, touring extensively around North America and hopping across the Atlantic for European dates in the Fall, and are not losing any momentum this year with an all-star tour of new American shoegaze bands, co-headlining with Trauma Ray and an undercard of Her New Knife and Knifeplay (I foresee […]
If you missed the news, shoegaze OGs Chapterhouse have decided that the 15-odd years since their last reunion tour is long enough and have turned their previously announced appearances at the Slide Away festivals this Spring into a full-on global tour. Following the UK dates came shows in South America and yesterday they released the […]
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 […]
If it wasn’t clear, the timing of Monday’s post wasn’t random as yesterday marked the official first release of Good Day Father, a new project from Catherine Wheel guitarist Brian Futter featuring vocals from Belly frontwoman Tanya Donelly. So not quite “Judy Staring At The Sun” part two, but certainly very adjacent. “Sonic Amadea” is […]
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 […]
Everyone knows Rachel Goswell from Slowdive. Some also know her from Mojave 3, her post-pre-Slowdive outfit with Neil Halstead. A few also know of her as a principal in indie-supergroup Minor Victories and also The Soft Cavalry, her project with husband Steve Clarke. But not many, it seems, know her as a solo artist, and […]
The legacy of For Tracy Hyde is pretty set – they were one of the premiere Japanese indie bands, fusing shoegaze, jangle, indie, and J-pop influences into a template for a generation of bands to follow, and broke up in 2023 immediately after releasing their finest album and on the cusp (maybe) of breaking out […]
Sometimes I think about the shoegaze bands of the early aughts who carried the torch for a genre at a time when it was pretty deeply unfashionable. One of those was Los Angeles’ The Meeting Places, who released a couple records in 2003 and 2006 that jangled and reverberated in all those old familiar ways. […]
