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Someone on r/shoegaze asked this week, “What happened to Dirty On Purpose?” which, of course, opened some serious nostalgia floodgates. I’d actually intended to do a post on the dearly departed Brooklyn shoegazers but that just done got moved up some. I’ll be digging up some old pics for an IG post soon, too. Dirty […]
You might say that Minneapolis’ She’s Green are having a pretty good 2025. They just wrapped one North American tour supporting Glixen and will set out on another with Softcult next month, and are certainly making the most of their Canadian work visas. That’s a lot of road time for a band whose only release […]
Since disbanding in 2019, Kinoko Teikoku have done a tremendous job of not giving fans any shred of hope about any further activities. Frontwoman Chiaki Satō has carved out a solo career that occasionally contains echoes of the visceral emo-gaze that made her old band so influential and beloved, but largely hews to pretty straight […]
It figures that a band that create as delicate, fragile, and internal-sounding dreampop as Detroit’s Clinic Stars don’t have a tremendous online presence – a Bandcamp, an Instagram, and a couple of shaky fan-shot live videos – but when they’ve already given us a record as beautiful as their 2024 full-length debut Only Hinting, asking […]
Their contributions to the first volume of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage back in February confirmed that contrary to expectations, fka Chromatics – Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, and Nat Walker – were just as good without Johnny Jewel as they were with. Now, with the release of the second part of the game, denoted “Tape […]
With an aesthetic built around the imagery of Japanese seifuku school uniforms, you know a tokenai namae (Undissolvable/Meltless Name) release when you see it even before you hear it, though their style of shoegaze built on grinding guitars, plinky keyboard melodies, and sweet girly vocals is quite distinctive as well. Okay, maybe not that distinctive […]
Just back from Los Angeles last night, so while I get reacclimatized to EDT and a not having the option of tacos for every meal, let’s say hi – again – to one of LA’s finest current shoegaze bands, Mo Dotti. After selling out of their initial run of last year’s Opaque following the endless […]
And following last night’s Hitsujibungaku show in Los Angeles, we’ve got more Asiangaze as a chaser with Hong Kongers Lucid Express at The Echo – practically the same venue as yesterday. This trip was nothing if not efficient. “Wellwave” was the debut single from their 2021 self-titled album, which they’re certainly due to follow up. […]
Almost a year ago I jetted across the ocean to Japan not just to see Hitsujibungaku live at Yokohama Arena, but that was certainly one of the highlights. This year, I’ve undertaken a similar trip – certainly not as far but possibly more perilous – to catch the Los Angeles date of their first-ever US […]
Following the announcement of their North American tour this Fall, Miki Berenyi Trio celebrated the release of their debut album Tripla last Friday with another single. Accompanied by a moody video filmed in Dijon, France, “Kinch” is more melancholic than the previous previews. Berenyi describes the inspiration for the song, as: The lyrics are inspired […]
