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There was a flurry of new from Cocteau Twins this week, with the announcement that their collaborative album with the late ambient composer Harold Budd – The Moon and The Melodies – was getting a vinyl reissue for the first time since its initial release in 1986 on August 23, featuring a new remaster by […]
Robin Guthrie popped up on socials last week and offered an update on his happenings just on time for Bandcamp Friday, OK, so, um, I have a bunch of new releases coming up in 2024, the first of which is at the factory getting manufactured right now. I’ll be the first to let you know, […]
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 […]
Apple Music really really really wants me to love Drop Nineteens. Every time I’m listening to something ‘gazey and their recommendation algorithm kicks in, nine times out of ten it’s something by the seminal ’90s Boston outfit – either “Kick The Tragedy” or “Winona”, of course. Somehow the software knew that I never listened to […]
A couple of Slowdive items to share as the band wrap their Asian tour in support of everything is alive, and take a breather before hitting the road again later next month for US markets they didn’t cover last Fall. First, a live in-studio with audience show the band recorded in Paris last Fall for […]
London shoegazers Whitelands released Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day last week and while expectations were high for their debut full-length, it’s fair to say that they fully delivered save for one complaint – at just eight tracks and 33 minutes, it’s far too short, and that six of the eight track were already […]
I’d meant to make some sort of mention of Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker’s passing since he died back in November, but just didn’t get to it until Adrian at Anyone Can Play Guitar posted his own lesson/tribute last month… and even then, it’s taken me weeks to get it done. As one of the […]
Considering that it feels like an entire tier of the indie band touring circuit has been hollowed out by the harshness of post-pandemic economics, it’s gratifying to see that some smaller bands are still willing to pile into a van and traverse the continent – if not the world – to try and build their […]
Ride were not kidding when they said their new album Interplay would be a tribute of sorts to the New Wave sounds they grew up on but consciously kept out of their music till now. The second preview of the record, which comes out on March 29, wears the Modern English and New Order pins […]
As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom around Tokyo’s Kinoko Teikoku is their first two records were the ‘gazey ones, and after that they went more conventional indie rock or broadened their sonic palette, depending on how you want to look at it. But whatever your perspective, their later albums still had some great material – […]
