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After a week of new music from the old guard of shoegaze, let’s turn our eyes forward – if still gazing downwards – and see what the kids are up to, starting close to home. Toronto newcomers Otsyuda released their first single “Drift” back in May of last year and immediately made an impression with […]
Wrapping up the week’s theme of shoegaze veterans still doing something new, we have Miki Berenyi, former frontwoman of Lush, announcing her first album with Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla will be out April 4. MB3 evolved out her previous post-Lush band Piroshka due to as touring demands and lineup changes, and now comprises herself, […]
2025 is barely two weeks into the new year and it’s already been a banner year for new music from shoegaze OGs, so that’ll be the running theme of the week. Swervedriver have stayed in the public eye what with the 99th Dream reissue and companion Doremi Faso Latido rarities comp coming out last year […]
One of the first questions after the Oasis reunion tour was announced last Fall was, “who’s in the band?” and many/most assumed that Andy Bell would pick up his bass guitar and resume the low-end duties he held with the band for a decade, up until their break-up in 2009 – a dissolution which, of […]
Having released the first taste of their fourth album back in September, I had hoped that Russian shoegazers Blankenberge would ring in the new year with more details of when and what to expect of the follow-up to 2021’s glorious Everything. Today, they deigned to give us a second preview of that record with the […]
As Michelle Zauner returns with news of her first new record in four years and her first promotional cycle as a bona fide star rather than up-and-comer – details on that available at literally every music news outlet – I’m going to go back – way back – to her early days. I thought I […]
Hello! Have barely gotten out of the holidays with my head intact – holidays when you have a small child are not really holidays at all – so very little bandwidth for content. But I wanted to welcome the new year with something, so here’s an interview of dubious production value but interesting content from […]
We’ll end the year with a callback to one of my highlights of the year, seeing Japanese trio Hitsujibungaku play a triumphant show in Yokohama back in April. The show was originally supposed to be released on vinyl in addition to blu-ray, but at some point the audio edition was scrapped and so the live […]
To wrap up this Christmas week, a return to the previously-mentioned Ghosts Of Christmas Past and a contribution from The Durutti Column which has appeared on all versions of the compilation over the years. It only appeared on an official Durutti Column release starting with the 1996 reissue of second album LC, which included other […]
Quick one for the holiday. Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu released this single in 2007, combining a Ramones cover as the A-side with “New Year”, a selection from their then-current album Citrus, for a peak-seasonal mini-release. The following year, they also released an acoustic live version recorded in London for Bandstand Busking, one of the live […]
