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You would think Skyless is a pretty distinctive name and also rather on the nose for a band with shoegazey/dreampoppy inclination but in fact there exist artists with that same name in both dance and hard rock genres and of course streaming services don’t disambiguate them so if you go looking, you’ll find some confusingly […]
When we last checked in with Winnipeg’s sundayclub, they were gearing up for not one but two Toronto shows to build on the interest around their debut single “Bannatyne” and I was working out how to fit at least one of them in my schedule. As it turned out, both shows were canceled due to […]
I’ve been a committed Luna fan for about 30 years now, starting from the day I bought a copy of Bewitched during university at the Kitchener location of The Beat Goes On when I probably should have been studying instead of cruising the used CD bins of the Kitchener-Waterloo region. And, from those very first […]
Even though they said last Summer that their next two releases would be EPs, some – myself included – hoped that 2026 would bring the debut full-length from She’s Green. And while that could certainly still happen, they’ve made good on their initial promise of companion extended plays – following last year’s Chrysalis, the band […]
I was a teenager in the ’90s, fully immersed in the Alternative Nation explosion at the time, reading every music magazine I could get my hands on and exploring the wild, weird corners of the internet of the time for new sounds, and to my recollection I had never heard of Swallow. If I squint, […]
A couple weeks ago while bemoaning the hiatus-ing/disbanding of Shirotsume after a final gig in July, I mentioned a second body blow for fans of the poppier end of J-gaze and that’s because on that same day, AprilBlue announced they too would be splitting up following a final show in August. AprilBlue, of course, was […]
I don’t use Spotify or TikTok but apparently Cocteau Twins’ song “Cico Buff” is now the most popular song in their catalog on the former thanks to the latter. In investigating this little bit of trivia, I learned a few other things about the song. One, it was never released as an official single from […]
I still remember clearly the dagger to the heart in 2004 when Luna announced they were splitting up. They were my favourite band, in a simpler time when people declared such things, and I took the farewell tour as an opportunity to go on my first rock’n’roll road trip. A few days after seeing their […]
I appreciate that it seems like new singles from some bands seem like automatic posts – because they basically are – but I’d like to point out that it’s a really exciting time in the genre because there are these new acts who are putting out really great music and taking the sound forward, and […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that current Hong Kong shoegaze starts and ends with Lucid Express – they’re certainly the flag-bearers – but if Apple Music’s RIYL algorithm is to be believed, HK’s Tofu Kingdom are right up there as well. You’d be forgiven for wanting to dismiss them on the basis of their name […]
