the stoned and lonely teens and the obsessive gear heads. It united them both with intensely emotional songs and a stage full of stomp boxes. Here are 10 of the genre's best albums. Swervedriver were ...

From the first tones of Slowdive’s summer return single, “kisses,” it became clear how influential the band has become throughout the last three decades. Elements of their rich, evocative guitar work, ...

The etymology of "shoegaze" remains to this day an open question. Coined at some point in the mid to late '80s by an overzealous British music press, the term rapidly became used to describe a wildly ...

Hey Gen X-er! Remember all that stuff you used to listen to when you were pretending to study for your final exams? Well, here it is, neatly compiled and bizarrely, almost fashionable. Waves of ...

The post The Shoegaze Revival in 10 Songs appeared first on Consequence. In a way, they were right. The fervor around shoegazers — a title given to bands with this specific, ethereal sonic style, who ...

Shoegaze melts and soothes the soul. It gets its power from the dichotomy of beauty and noise, and both properties are much needed in 2019. Like many genres and subgenres in this day and age, shoegaze ...

For a long time, Zachary Cole Smith has wanted to make what he calls a “political shoegaze record.” As you might expect, this was not an easy assignment. First, there were the inherent limitations of ...

Shoegaze is very much having a moment right now. That much is apparent from the proliferation of new, young shoegaze acts like Wisp and Sign Crushes Motorist picking up steam on social media to the ...

Way before "metal-gaze" was a thing, MBV's UK neighbors and Creation Records labelmates Swervedriver were getting metal cred. "Rave Down," the title track of their 1990 sophomore EP (which also ended ...

You can hear all the local flavors of shoegaze on New Year Split 2025, the excellent collaboration of Front Range bands Creek, Overhang and Summer of Peril released on January 3. Each band contributed ...

"I'm really happy right now," Domenic Palermo says, his voice quivering with joy. "I feel like I'm doing the right thing for once, and that's not a normal thing for me." It's just after 3PM on ...