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Comprised of a pari of married couples, Austin, Texas’ Blushing proudly wear their shoegaze influences on their sleeves and their pedalboards – think a punchier, poppier Lush. They’ve been winning audiences over the course of two records – 2019’s self-title and 2022’s Possessions – and are set to continue doing so with their third album […]
Uchuu Nekoko are a duo from Kanagawa, Japan whose name translates to “Universe Neko”, which should mean “Universe Cat”? Or “Space Cat”? And they could very well be a couple of intergalactic felines named Nemuko Yamanaka and Kano because they’ve opted to keep their identities hidden behind a couple of anime avatars by artist Tomoko […]
Here’s one to put on in the background while you do other things – an interview Dean Wareham gave to the Life Of The Record podcast back in 2021 about the making of Luna’s majestic 1995 album Penthouse on the occasion of the album’s 25th anniversary. Well it’s not an interview, really, but 45 minutes […]
Brooklyn’s DIIV announced their fourth album Frog In Boiling Water – first since 2019’s Deceiver – last week with the chilled-out dirge “Brown Paper Bag”, but they first previewed the new record way back in October while in the midst of their tour supporting Depeche Mode. They dropped the website soul-net.co, a Geocities-saluting doomscrolling eyesore, […]
After stepping away from music for a long time post-Lush, Miki Berenyi has been making up for lost time. There was the short-lived Lush reunion in 2015, followed by new music with Piroshka in the form of two albums – Brickbat in 2019 and Love Drips and Gathers in 2021. But since embarking on book […]
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 […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Warpaint are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band with this new song, being released as a 7″ – available now – and with an accompanying video that condenses the glitz and glamour of two decades spent on the road spreading gorgeous dreampop across the world down into four minutes. They describe […]
I went to see San Francisco’s No Vacation on Monday night, and while there’s never a bad time to take your band on tour – though playing your first-ever Toronto show in early February might not be the most sensible thing – the timing of this cross-country outing is a little odd by conventional standards. […]
There’s anti-marketing, and then there’s what Seoul’s Della Zyr is doing. If you were to stumble across her YouTube channel, you’d find a handful of videos of a young woman playing shoegaze cover songs in her bedroom; excellently done, certainly, but not unusual in 2024. Her Instagram offers somewhat more; it’s only four posts deep, […]
Here’s another entry from the promising Asian bands who may or may not still exist. Swiimers hail from Seoul, South Korea and released a handful of singles a few years ago that were compiled as a self-titled EP in 2016. Combining the delicacy of dreampop with some of the dynamism of post-rock and glitchy electronic […]
