My Bloody Valentine hard at work on new material
Shoegaze gods My Bloody Valentine have elated fans of the fuzzy genre by announcing plans to release a new album and a new EP in 2012 – their first new material since 1991′s Loveless. In a recent chat with The Quietus, MBV frontman Kevin Shields both confirmed and clocked-in on its status: “We’re making it...
My Bloody Valentine Remastered
O-M-G! Rolling Stone reports that Sony Music has officially announced the release date for remastered versions of Loveless and Isn’t Anything from gods of fuzz, My Bloody Valentine, as May 7. In addition to the two enhanced, seminal shoegaze LPS – remastered by MBV’s own vocalist/guitarist Kevin Shields at Metropolis Studios in London – a...
Eyes Downward Cast: The vanished scene of shoegaze
Today’s history lesson focuses on the perils of looking down. Shoegaze is an oddity. Easily described and circumscribed, it is a sub-genre of alternative music that flourished mostly in England between 1990-1995, and sank almost without a trace under the rising swell of Grunge in the US and Britpop (a la Suede) in the UK....
Watch Young Prisms ‘Floating in Blue’
So the story goes, San Francisco’s Young Prisms were once stranded in London’s Heathrow Airport back in 2010 due to an ungodly ice storm. This hapless experience, with the addition of a few other downer moments, paved the way for the band’s forthcoming sophomore LP In Between coming March 27 on Kanine Records. M-m-shoegazey-good, this...
Veronica Falls: On the rise in 2012
Veronica Falls (est. 2009) are an upbeat indie pop hybrid out of London and Glasgow. Mixing equal parts shoegaze, C-86, and euphonious 60′s-era harmonies, Roxanne Clifford (vocals, guitar), James Hoare (guitar, vocals), Marion Herbain (bass) and Patrick Doyle (drums, vocals) released their eponymous debut in September 2011 on Slumberland Records and have been on the...
