We tip our hats to the British rock-critic cabal of yesteryear. Or maybe just to the person who coined the term “shoegaze.” In a pejorative sense, the term derives from musicians too introverted or ...

The genre known as shoegaze got its name from guitarists staring at their racks of effects pedals while performing onstage, and the sound associated with it is appropriately laden with guitar effects.

The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. Chrysalis, the new EP by She's Green feels like a shot to the arm for the shoegaze revival scene ...

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 ...