A return to North America and English-language content with this one courtesy of Stereogum; Toronto journalist Lesa Hannah has collected a trio of interviews with some of the women who defined the first wave of shoegazer bands – Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Emma Anderson of Lush, and Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine – and their current projects. For Goswell, that’s promoting everything is alive, Anderson celebrating her first solo record Pearlies, and Googe with her solo project da Googie as well as playing with Thurston Moore while waiting for Kevin Shields to get on with the next My Bloody Valentine record.

All I’ll contribute is my own version of the article hero image compiled from my own shots – Goswell at Slowdive’s gig at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre last year, Anderson with the briefly reunited Lush at Toronto’s TURF at Fort York in September 2016, and Googe with My Bloody Valentine at the Kool Haus in Toronto in 2008.

Shoegaze’s Pioneering Women Are Still Going Strong @ Stereogum