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Summer’s effectively over so let’s say goodbye with some early Swervedriver. “Rave Down” was the title track from the band’s second EP, coming in November 1990 almost a year before their debut full-length Raise, on which it would feature. The video kind of features a live performance but the visuals are all pretty obscured by […]
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 […]
Started the day with some new Swervedriver news, which is always good news, though not quite the kind of good news that fans were probably hoping for, but let’s focus on the good, shall we? They’ll be putting out a new-ish release on August 30 entitled Doremi Faso Latido. What it is is the third […]
As I mentioned on my main Instagram, I’m ready to be part of the critical re-evaluation of Swervedriver’s 1998 one-time swan song 99th Dream, thanks to its new deluxe reissue which I happened to find at a very decent price and thought, “why not”. I bought the album on CD when it was first released […]
Swervedriver b-sides have long been things of beauty and held in high regard, and one particular fan-favourite is “Cars Converge On Paris”, originally released in 1993 as a b-side to Mezcal Head single, “Last Train To Satansville”. Never being ones to shy away from the deep cut, the band included the song in the encores […]
DVDs are hardly the most collectible things these days – I wager a lot of people don’t have the technology to even play one if they wanted to – but I’ve finally gotten my hands back on one of my most precious digital video discs after a couple years where I almost wrote it off […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like many of their ’90s-era brethren, Swervedriver are a band who know their way around a b-side. Indeed, some of their most fan-favourite cuts don’t even appear on their studio albums, and are hard to lay ears on. And so it was a pretty big deal, if a quietly-announced one, that at the end of […]
I launched this blog with some Swervedriver content – a shot of Adam Franklin’s pedalboard from their October 2019 show at The Horseshoe – but haven’t actually talked about the band since then, so let’s rectify that, starting with some guitar-centric material since you can’t like Swervedriver and not care about guitars. I actually don’t […]
