Happy Game Of Thrones Sunday! Happy Cinco de Mayo! As of today, I've officially been a resident of the city of Los Angeles for 6 years. Although not technically, because I still don't have a CA driver's license. Oh well. Someday. Cheers to transience! RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix [...]
En el marco de Inrocks Club Acústico , el cantautor inglés Neil Halstead brindará su primer show en Buenos Aires el viernes 7 de junio en Boris Club . Durante el encuentro, Halstead, uno de los más respetados compositores de Inglaterra, repasará su más reciente y tercer disco en solitario Palindrome Hunches (2012) en formato acústico. El músico fue miembro fundador de Slowdive primero (1989-1995) y, tras su disolucón, de Mojave 3 , bandas en las que exploró [...]
Neil Halstead (of Slowdive / Mojave 3 fame) delivered his third solo record ‘Palindrome Hunches’ last September and on May 13 the second single ‘Spin The Bottle’ will be available through Sonic Cathedral . Point being, there’s a few extra goodies to be had, including a remix of the album cut ‘Full Moon Rising’. Electronic music veteran (and former Seefeel member) Mark Van Hoen has stepped up to the challenge. Mark has turned the acoustic number into a delightfully more dreamy creation while maintaining the organic feel of the original – see [...]
A couple of recent shoegaze album lists from Sounds Better with Reverb and Surfing on Steam prompted me to recall those heady days of shoegaze between 1988 and 1994. My recollection wasn't about the great albums, though there were some, but about the EP's. Those of us there at the time know that it was all about the EP. Albums were slow to come and often disappointing but the EPs came quick and were often a band's pinnacle. Often a band would do a brilliant EP and then never reach the same heights on the album, or never [...]
I saw this list  the other day and felt compelled to make a more comprehensive, accurate, and essential rundown of albums that have truly stood out in a musical and historical sense. Albums that are influential, groundbreaking and still memorable.  And let's be clear that bands like Galaxie 500, Mercury Rev, Verve, Mazzy Star, etc., these are all great bands that have produced some astounding work, but they are definitely not shoegaze. It's obviously way too early to rank the new MBV album so I'm not even gonna go there. [...]
Remember earlier in the year I said there was a long term project underway involving some classic tunes? No? Well - ta-dah! This is it, a list of SBWR’s 100 Greatest Shoegaze Albums. I was going to do the whole, countdown thing, gradually posting tracks… but that would be boring. In fact, halfway through I thought, wow, this is pointless... but in Forest Gump fashion, I’d run far enough not to turn back. The point is, its not about deciding what's best, its about discovering something new (or old, in this case). Throughout the process of compiling the list, many [...]
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We can agree to disagree, but the rainy and grey United Kingdom has produced several of the most evocative and influential bands of the past century, extending far past The Beatles and The Smiths to contemporary experimental acts. The problem, however, is that a good number of them have an irksome tendency to become insular, preferring to stay close to home. True, it’s at times more cost-effective and far easier to schedule, but that doesn't help us fans here over in the States. With that in mind, here's a list of UK acts we’d love to see in the near [...]
If you're like us, you're probably pretty darn excited about the news that a new My Bloody Valentine album might be out by the end of the week — after all, we've been waiting for new material from the shoegaze luminaries since 1991. To celebrate the possibility that the wait might finally be over, we thought we'd take a look back at shoegaze in all its reverb-laden, hypnotic glory. We've flipped lovingly through our record collection to pick ten essential examples of the genre, both old and new, encompassing both the 4AD/Creation-centric glory days of the early 1990s [...]
[Photo: Aubrey Edwards] In our attention-deficient indie rock universe, where "flavor of the month" has devolved into "flavor of the day," music fans all too often encounter artists willing to sacrifice aspects of their art to the hype machine. Afflicted acts evince over-confident songwriting, album-leak scatter shots and hackneyed imagery. It's gotten to the point that when a band invests completely, humbly into their art alone, the audacity of such an act makes them stand out. Which brings us to Austin-based dream pop heroes She, Sir . The act first caught Clicky Clicky's attention five [...]
Loyal defenders of all that is shoegaze, London label/night Sonic Cathedral's Nathaniel Cramp curates a playlist especially for The G-Man blog... A once-off club night to celebrate Swedish shoegaze shamans The Radio Dept that happened to snowball into a full-blown record label, "the label that celebrates itself" prepares to turn nine years old in October, a ripe old age in modern times. SC's head priest Nathaniel Cramp preaches ten fuzzy hymns below that should be indoctrinated by one and all. Response: [...]
So much great commentary and accuracy about the existence/necessity of some of the premiere shoegaze bands and heavily marketed acts of the genre. Most importantly though, the section about Slowdive’s Pygmalion is absolute truth and you should make it a mission to buy this record over the weekend. It might not have the same instant effect that it had on people like Ott and myself when it first dropped because it was so maddening and experimental compared to what was going on at that time, but one day it will definitely hit you very, very hard and you’re [...]
It's Friday, which means the first working week of 2013 is over — rejoice! It also means that it's time for us to round up the 10 most noteworthy tracks of the week that's gone by, and happily there's some decent tunes to be had again after a pretty fallow holiday week. Specifically, there's a hitherto unreleased Sufjan Stevens track, new Factory Floor, a bunch of interesting remixes involving everything from shoegaze to neo-R&B, Skrillex aping Burial to hilarious effect... and, yes, the depressing Azealia Banks/Angel Haze shitfight. Click through and get listening. [...]
January is already gearing up to be a huge release month, Ducktails has moved onto Domino Recordings , Toro Y Moi is still on Carpark and A$AP Rocky debuts on a major. Probably one of the most exciting January's for releases in years for indie. Also, I attached a rework I did of Slowdive . Happy New Year! In other news Jay-Z is scoring the Great Gatsby , all the baby boomers are probably thinking... "well when I die, I won't miss the [...]
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Ya todos ustedes saben que Slowdive es una de las bandas mas bonitas e influyentes de todos los tiempos, asà que si por ahà todavia existen mentes que piensan lo contrario, sólo denle una buena escuchada a varios de los proyectos que les vengo a dejar dÃa con dÃa dentro de este espacio. Pero bueno, tal vez Heathered Pearls no sea el mejor ejemplo de todo esto que les digo, pero dentro de todo su enfoque electrónico también tiene una poderosa influencia de Slowdive en las atmósferas que acompañan sus melodÃas, y tal vez por esta [...]
I listened to these all weekend.
Lo primero que uno nota al ver el video que presenta el proyecto Beautiful Noise  es que, a diferencia de muchos otros en Kickstarter , éste parece tener invitados de lujo y material que en verdad demuestra que hay una muy buena cantidad de trabajo detrás del documental que intentan fondear. Básicamente, Beautiful Noise se centra en la historia de My Bloody Valentine , Cocteau Twins y The Jesus and Mary Chain y en cómo estas bandas influenciaron a muchas otras a pesar de nunca haber vendido [...]
Author: Colm McAuliffe I See Three Birds Flying Adrian Crowley There’s an awful lot of earnest men with beards, or even miscellaneous facial hair, intoning darkly about possibly profound topics. Perhaps the hangman is on their trail or they are merely consistently failing to get laid. Either way, it can be a tricky task sifting through the solipsistic misery in order to find some genuine breathing space, or some pulse of progression amid [...]
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