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One of the fun things about shoegaze as a genre is that being musically on the nose isn’t a detriment; in fact, for a lot of fans, it’s a plus. Phoenix, Arizona’s Glixen certainly sound like a lot of bands you’ve heard before – in fact, a lot of bands you’ve heard right here – […]
Truly this is and odd one. One one hand, it’s a complete live 80-minute Luna show and is pretty well-shot if a bit static with three fixed cameras and a great sound mix. On the other hand, seeing the band in a gazebo beside a parking lot and a row of porta potties is a […]
Anglo-American dreampop duo Still Corners have returned with details of their sixth full-length: Dream Talk, with its so very on-the-nose artwork, will be out on April 5 and has been previewed with first single “Secret World”. Frontwoman Tessa Murray describes the song as: Sometimes the thought of someone, wanting to know them, get into their […]
Is there a song more quintessentially 2002 than “Green Grass of Tunnel” by múm? Probably, but for my purposes – and given the other options – let’s say no. Sigur Rós had just recently introduced the otherworldly sounds of Iceland to the masses, and the appetite for more music of possible/probably Elfin origin was quite […]
I’m going a little cross-platform today, so for a bit of background on my relationship with Brooklyn’s Sea Ray and their 2003 album Stars At Noon you can head over to this Instagram post – at my main account, not the one for this site – and get a little acquainted. Hereabouts, I’m going to […]
Though they’ve been on tour for the better part of the back half of this year, we haven’t seen a lot of recent studio sessions from Slowdive yet – at least not at the pace that we’ve seen from past tours. Hopefully this one from New Zealand’s 95bFM will be the start of at least […]
Shoegaze and J-Pop don’t initially seem like the most obvious of bedfellows but it turns out that loud, churning guitars and the super-saccharine sound of Japanese idol groups can be like chocolate and peanut butter. At least that’s the case for the premier – and maybe only – J-pop idol/shoegaze crossover act I know of, […]
It has not gone unnoticed that despite being one of my all-time bands and certainly fitting within in the genre mandates of this site, Luna have not featured in these pages very much. Partly because while they are again an ongoing concern since reuniting in 2014, they’re mostly a touring act with their only new […]
Today, The American Analog Set are putting out For Forever, their first album since 2005’s Set Free. The band essentially ended at the end of that year, after touring obligations were done, but they did reconvene a few times after that for one-off performances. The second-last of those was back in March 2009 in Austin, […]
Of all the new musical discoveries I’ve made this year, one that has remained in heavy rotation is St. Petersburg’s Blankenberge, whom I tried to properly celebrate back in June. They actually weren’t entirely new to me as their 2017 debut Radiogaze was brought to my attention by some genre year-end lists. As I recall, […]
