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Recordings of Ride’s show at the Town & Country Club in London has long kicked around as one of the definitive early live documents of the band. Recorded on March 7, 1991 while the band were touring their debut album Nowhere, released the previous October, it was broadcast by the BBC in May 1991 and […]
The 30th anniversary of Ride’s debut Nowhere was technically last October, but Autumn 2020 was hardly a time where anyone anywhere felt like celebrating anything. It’s debatable how good things are a year on, but they’re definitely better, so if they want to treat the record’s 31st birthday as a do-over for the 30th, that’s […]
Japanese shoegazers yuragi were celebrated hereabouts last March for their 2018 EP Still Dreaming, Still Deafening, and they followed it up this Summer with For You, Adroit It But Soft, which is framed as their debut album despite it actually clocking in at two minutes shorter than the EP. The record rollout was accompanied by […]
I – like everyone – has spilt a lot of digital ink on My Bloody Valentine this year, what with their back catalog finally coming back into print on all mediums in all territories in time for the 30th anniversary of their landmark Loveless. So much so that when the actual birthday of the record […]
I’ve been trying to learn to play a few selections from Swervedriver’s back catalog lately and have really come to appreciate how unconventional Adam Franklin’s playing and writing style is. His musical brain is an interesting place to be, and I’ve been living in it and the Swervedriver oeuvre a fair bit of late. So […]
As architects of what would become known and loved as “shoegaze”, the specifics of Ride’s musical tools have always been of particular interest to a certain segment of society. So it’s kind of a tragedy that none of the guitar-centric articles from their first go-around seem to exist online… and by “none of”, I mean […]
Sometimes I’ll write a lot about a song I post, sometimes I won’t. Guess which time this is? It’s Swervedriver, and “Duel” the lead single from sophomore record Mezcal Head. Speaks for itself. But I will mention that I’ve found another guitar tutorial site with excellent taste in lessons. Swervedriver guitar parts are not easy […]
I don’t really buy into including Velocity Girl in the ’90s American shoegaze scene like, say, Lilys or Drop Nineteens. Partly because I like VG much more than those other acts , and also because they pivoted out of their ‘gazey phase pretty quickly in favour of delicious power-pop on their last two records – […]
A lot going on right now that precludes putting any longer-type posts together for the moment, so I’ll just drop this bit of aural bliss, the title track from Cocteau Twins‘ 1990 masterwork, Heaven Or Las Vegas. Not a bad place to go if you need to chill out and get lost in Elizabeth Fraser’s […]
Yesterday marked the 30th birthday of Slowdive’s debut full-length, Just For A Day, and in looking for something to post in commemoration of the event – I already posted one of the only videos from the record a few months ago – and in doing so I found this interesting artifact dating back to the […]
