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If I haven’t said it in as many words in the past, for all the talk about the new wave of American shoegaze, not a lot of it does much for me. A lot of them have their roots in genres that do nothing for me – metal, hardcore, emo, etc – and adding chorus […]
Amongst the bands that make up the first wave of American shoegaze in the ’90s, Boston’s Drop Nineteens are amongst the most hallowed. Partly because their 1992 debut Delaware contains some bona fide classics of the genre – “Winona” and “Kick The Tragedy” are fixtures of “intro to shoegazing” playlists – but also because the […]
Jo’s Moving Day aren’t quite as shadowy as the last instalment of my “mysterious Chinese shoegaze” series – they have an Instagram! – but finding out much about the fresh-faced Guangzhou quintet isn’t easy if you don’t read Chinese (which I do not). But at least their 2021 debut Itinerary is widely available via streaming […]
Here’s a nice little gift from France in the form of a House Of Love live mini-set from Dijon this past March. The show itself was a full set, but the video – professionally shot by Sébastien Faits-Divers and Francesca Raimondo of FD Sessions – has been excellently edited down to a half dozen HoL […]
Though my days of buying music documentaries on DVD are long behind me, but one that I would have happily paid for – Mike Nichols’ 2019 Suede documentary Suede: The Insatiable Ones – I couldn’t. It was originally aired on UK network Sky, who do a remarkably good job of making sure their programming is […]
My question last year of whether Ride would continue their back catalog remaster and reissue series to include the much-less beloved Carnival Of Light and Tarantula have been answered with a solid “yes” – new editions of the records will be out on August 4. There’s much less fanfare to be sure – an Instagram […]
Inadvertent Lush season continues hereabouts with some exciting news – the first solo record from Emma Anderson. After Lush split in 1996, it was Anderson who got back into things first, forming Sing-Sing with Lisa O’Neill in 1997 and carrying on for a decade, releasing a couple full-lengths and a variety of extended plays. After disbanding, […]
The second sample of Slowdive’s forthcoming everything is alive doesn’t come with the cinematic, WKW-inspired video that “Kisses” did last month – just a “visualizer” riffing on the album artwork – but that’s a far less important a point than the fact that this is the second new Slowdive song we’ve been gifted in less […]
Tokyo’s For Tracy Hyde may be gone, but they leave behind a decent enough trove of archival material for me to wade through beyond their final record Hotel Insomnia and it’s final wake. I’ll start with this five-song live set they recorded in April 2020 for DKFM Radio’s (DecayFM) DreamGaze Worldwide, which I guess was […]
I’ve been on a bit of a Lush kick lately for no reason that I can think of, but it turns out I was just being prescient. 4AD announced yesterday that the Lush studio album back catalog – 1991’s Spooky, 1994’s Split, and 1996’s Lovelife – were being remastered from the original 1/2″ tapes and […]
