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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
When it rains, it pours, and the deluge of new singles in the last little while made it so that even an epic new track from deary didn’t even get a listen until this morning as I write this, fully five days after it was released. A tribute to guitarist Ben Easton’s dog – presumably […]
Bad news for anyone hoping to glean some insight into the timeline for She’s Green’s debut album from the release of their first new song of the year – namely me. But instead, let’s focus on what we did get: “Mettle” dropped last night and is a three-minute banger that reminds us the band has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
If we measure things by full-lengths, it’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Taiwan’s Manic Sheep – their last album Brooklyn came out way back in 2017 – but but they’ve not been idle. New EPs have been released in the interim – Deep Dusk in 2019, Morning Fragment in 2023, and Invisible […]
Probably unfairly to the other two members of the band, I had always framed Fear Of Men as Jessica Weiss’ project so when she began releasing solo music as New German Cinema a few years ago, I wasn’t sure what the differentiation was. The production was a more synthetic as befits someone writing on a […]
