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After a week of new music from the old guard of shoegaze, let’s turn our eyes forward – if still gazing downwards – and see what the kids are up to, starting close to home. Toronto newcomers Otsyuda released their first single “Drift” back in May of last year and immediately made an impression with […]
Wrapping up the week’s theme of shoegaze veterans still doing something new, we have Miki Berenyi, former frontwoman of Lush, announcing her first album with Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla will be out April 4. MB3 evolved out her previous post-Lush band Piroshka due to as touring demands and lineup changes, and now comprises herself, […]
2025 is barely two weeks into the new year and it’s already been a banner year for new music from shoegaze OGs, so that’ll be the running theme of the week. Swervedriver have stayed in the public eye what with the 99th Dream reissue and companion Doremi Faso Latido rarities comp coming out last year […]
One of the first questions after the Oasis reunion tour was announced last Fall was, “who’s in the band?” and many/most assumed that Andy Bell would pick up his bass guitar and resume the low-end duties he held with the band for a decade, up until their break-up in 2009 – a dissolution which, of […]
Having released the first taste of their fourth album back in September, I had hoped that Russian shoegazers Blankenberge would ring in the new year with more details of when and what to expect of the follow-up to 2021’s glorious Everything. Today, they deigned to give us a second preview of that record with the […]
Hello! Have barely gotten out of the holidays with my head intact – holidays when you have a small child are not really holidays at all – so very little bandwidth for content. But I wanted to welcome the new year with something, so here’s an interview of dubious production value but interesting content from […]
Quick one for the holiday. Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu released this single in 2007, combining a Ramones cover as the A-side with “New Year”, a selection from their then-current album Citrus, for a peak-seasonal mini-release. The following year, they also released an acoustic live version recorded in London for Bandstand Busking, one of the live […]
Arizona’s Alison’s Halo are one of the OG American shoegazers, having formed way back in 1992 and despite going to ground before the turn of the century, remained one of the first names you’d think of when talking about the first wave of the genre from the Americas. They reformed in 2009 for sporadic shows […]
One of the OGs of the current Japanese shoegaze scene, the oddly-named-even-for-Japan Seventeen Years Old And Berlin Wall have been releasing mini-albums of boy-girl sharp-sweet fuzzy-shimmering dreampop since 2015. Whether they number four or five depends on your criteria for distinguishing an EP from a mini-album, and whether mini-album is even a thing – the […]
It remains a tragedy that the Lush reunion ended the way it did, when it started out so promisingly. Unlike their peers, they started out in the studio rather than the stage and had a new EP in Blind Spot ready to go, coming out just days after their first reunion gig in April 2016. […]
