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Shoegaze rocker Wisp is Gen Z’s ambassador for the opaque and brutal—even at rap festivals
1 month, 1 week ago

Shoegaze rocker Wisp is Gen Z’s ambassador for the opaque and brutal—even at rap festivals

LA Times  

“Shoegaze is great for how emotional the music can get,” said Natalie Lu of Wisp, who is performing at Camp Flog Gnaw this weekend. “One of my main concerns when ‘Your Face’ came out was wanting to make music that people could relate to,” Lu said. Writing things that actually come from the heart is a lot more important than …

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Ride on their latest album, 'Interplay' : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ride on their latest album, 'Interplay' : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR

NPR  

Ride on their latest album, 'Interplay' Set List "Peace Sign" "Monaco" "Last Frontier" It's actually a little hard to believe that English rock group Ride, who first broke up in 1996 after eight years as a band, has now been together for a decade this second time around. Bell, along with Mark Gardener, Loz Colbert and Steve Queralt were early …

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Diiv is a shoegaze band to believe in
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Diiv is a shoegaze band to believe in

LA Times  

Two days before they’re due to play the first date of a headlining theater tour, the members of the rock band Diiv are sitting around a picnic table in the parking lot of a Burbank rehearsal studio, reminiscing about the arena shows they opened last fall for Depeche Mode. Diiv is going without many of the borrowed perks of A-list …

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8 Tracks: Samba shoegaze, cherry blossom jazz and an 8-bit K-pop crush
8 months, 3 weeks ago

8 Tracks: Samba shoegaze, cherry blossom jazz and an 8-bit K-pop crush

NPR  

8 Tracks: Samba shoegaze, cherry blossom jazz and an 8-bit K-pop crush Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artist 8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Still, it's a shame: Coming toward the end of a sonically sprawling and thematically messy album, "YA YA" succinctly sums up Cowboy Carter's rich and complicated tableau …

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Forget Led Zeppelin and the Eagles – the new sound of classic rock is ‘shoegaze’ and Nineties indie
1 year, 2 months ago

Forget Led Zeppelin and the Eagles – the new sound of classic rock is ‘shoegaze’ and Nineties indie

The Independent  

Everyone knows what classic rock is, right? U2 changes ‘Pride’ lyrics to honour music fans killed at Israeli music festival “It’s the cycle of music, and its regurgitation in fashions and fads,” says Nat Cramp, who runs the shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral. You don’t really have to go too far out of your way to make a record that sounds …

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’Souvlaki’: the shoegaze genre’s dreamy apotheosis
1 year, 6 months ago

’Souvlaki’: the shoegaze genre’s dreamy apotheosis

Live Mint  

The music press can be a cruel, fickle beast, building you up as the next big thing one day and tearing you down the next. Slowdive’s 1991 full-length debut, Just For A Day, received unexpectedly middling reviews, with Melody Maker’s Paul Lester calling it a “major f*cking letdown”. The band’s members were barely out of school and baffled by the …

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