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Pretty much no one described themselves as shoegaze in the early 2000s, so fans looking for their hazy, reverberated music fix had to look for more subtle hints as to like-minded souls… like including gorgeous Ride covers on your albums. That’s how I found California-then-Seattle’s Trespassers William, built around the duo of Anna-Lynne Williams and […]
Athenian shoegazers Sugar For The Pill will drop their second full-length Luv next Friday, and last week they offered up their third preview of the record with the soaring “Cherry Blossom” and corresponding, architecturally-inspired video. Said the band of the song and visuals: This song explores that tender instant when something ends, yet a new […]
The day the Next Music From Toyko lineup is announced is kind of like Christmas for me… at least since I started attending last year. So yeah, not that long, but considering that the traveling mini-festival is the only way I’ll get to see any of Japan’s indie rock scene live short of flying over […]
It has been two and a half years since Tokyo’s Kurayamisaka released their debut mini-album Kimi Wo Omotte Iru and in that time, the buzz around them has grown pretty substantially, such that even international media like NME has taken notice. You might think that this attention would prompt them to make physical copies of […]
The dearth of good quality live Cocteau Twins material – and I’m talking audio, never mind video which sadly just doesn’t exist – is a real shame, so when something like this complete soundboard recording from a Tokyo show circa Treasure surfaces, well, you share it. The recording comes courtesy of Moose bassist Lincoln Fong, […]
Someone on r/shoegaze asked this week, “What happened to Dirty On Purpose?” which, of course, opened some serious nostalgia floodgates. I’d actually intended to do a post on the dearly departed Brooklyn shoegazers but that just done got moved up some. I’ll be digging up some old pics for an IG post soon, too. Dirty […]
You might say that Minneapolis’ She’s Green are having a pretty good 2025. They just wrapped one North American tour supporting Glixen and will set out on another with Softcult next month, and are certainly making the most of their Canadian work visas. That’s a lot of road time for a band whose only release […]
Since disbanding in 2019, Kinoko Teikoku have done a tremendous job of not giving fans any shred of hope about any further activities. Frontwoman Chiaki Satō has carved out a solo career that occasionally contains echoes of the visceral emo-gaze that made her old band so influential and beloved, but largely hews to pretty straight […]
With an aesthetic built around the imagery of Japanese seifuku school uniforms, you know a tokenai namae (Undissolvable/Meltless Name) release when you see it even before you hear it, though their style of shoegaze built on grinding guitars, plinky keyboard melodies, and sweet girly vocals is quite distinctive as well. Okay, maybe not that distinctive […]
Just back from Los Angeles last night, so while I get reacclimatized to EDT and a not having the option of tacos for every meal, let’s say hi – again – to one of LA’s finest current shoegaze bands, Mo Dotti. After selling out of their initial run of last year’s Opaque following the endless […]
