― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
this thread is good now
― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― dlp9001, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
www.theearlies.com
― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
I will now check out melodic.com
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
I would click the "Free Sample Issue" button on the side and see what happens.
This zine is run by Ryan Anderson who used to play with Fuxa back in the old Michigan space rock days. Each issue comes with a free cd comp that is mostly showgaze and space rock. If you are interested in that sound they are very worth picking up. Ryan keeps the prices dirt cheap, they cost $7.20 a piece and that covers the shipping.
If you do decide to pick up back issues I would recommend that you start with issue three and work your way forward. The first couple issues were a bit patchy but they got better with every following issue.
As far as bands go, I would recommend looking into Tristeza/The Album Leaf, Cerberus Shoal, Landing, Hinterland, and Tex La Homa. ESOJ's(the surface noise) and Ned's picks are both completely otm and I would have recommended them myself if they had not beaten me to the punch.
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 14 December 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
The Meeting Places as well...reasonable enough rotegaze.
M83, now lemme tell ya, I guess I enjoyed the album the one time I heard it, but that was six months ago and I haven't felt any need to listen again.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
Everyone should hear the new For Against.
― JC (JC A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
Also Trespassers William, whose cover of Ride's "Vapour Trail" is gorgeous and a fair sign of how they sound in general.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 15 December 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― desolert (desolate), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)tnx!
― jose m lozano II, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
Clairecords is the biggest shoegaze label out there at the moment, or for the past 5 years for that matter. They also run Tonevendor, the biggest mailorder for the related genres. Just look at some of the bands they've released.
Monster Movie (ex-slowdive)Astrobrite (loveliescrushing)Highspire MaloryAirielThe Ecstasy of St. TheresaPaikStella LunaElectro GroupCon DoloreMahogonyPia FrausSciflyerHartfield, Air Formationetc.
You want bands not on Claire?
Ulrich SchnaussM83the Meeting PlacesExperimental AircraftSkywavethe Emerald DownLandingWhirlawayAlcian BlueBethany CurveVoyager 1
That's just about everyone you need to know that's been doing good shoegaze type stuff over the past 5 years.
― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
What’s the album? Doesn’t seem to ge on their bandcamp page.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 22 June 2024 00:12 (three months ago) link
swanlike (loosies 2020-2023)
It's up on spotify and youtube
― Ubiquitor, Saturday, 22 June 2024 00:33 (three months ago) link
I love TAGABOW. I didn't get into "s" quite as much as Dextiny XL, but I agree completely that they're doing more interesting stuff w/ shoegaze than most.
I am a major sucker for heavy distortion, warped sounds and tons o' fuzz.
You know Blue Smiley's main songwriter passed away several years ago now, yeah?
― alpine static, Saturday, 22 June 2024 07:48 (three months ago) link
"what's the deal with Philly?"
best indie rock scene in America for a decade now, probably? i assume it's because everywhere nearby got too expensive and artists ended up there. (idk, i live 3,000 miles away.)
― alpine static, Saturday, 22 June 2024 07:49 (three months ago) link
Mad not to make the album buyable.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 22 June 2024 11:51 (three months ago) link
Philly is pretty good for independent music and always has been, ime as someone both from here and as someone who left for 15 years only to return. The punk/hc and indie-rock scene of the mid to late 90s was incredible, and it's kept up since then tbh.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 19 July 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link
xpost alpine static, yeah it's a damn shame. Spotify algorithm fired Blue Smiley across my bow a few months before the remaining members put out their previously unreleased material in the fall of '23 and I was utterly crestfallen to hear that the brains behind the operation had passed away. Their music sounds like it comes from a damaged soul, but it has a particularly uplifting quality that I feel can only come from such a source.
― Ubiquitor, Saturday, 20 July 2024 00:24 (two months ago) link
The new album by Orcas (Rafael Anton Irisarri + Benoît Pioulard) came out this week and will make your ears bleed technicolor https://orcasmorr.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-color-a-thousand-mistakes
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 20 July 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete in Tijuana last night. (my short review: fuck yeah!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CgDxFZlJI
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 July 2024 01:40 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5C6g9L2-c
awesome
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 July 2024 01:53 (two months ago) link
Think I talked about Pink Breath of Heaven earlier in the thread — easily my new favorite SF band and I would have seen them last night again if it wasn’t for finally getting a chance to see Cold Gawd at last. Anyway: new Pink Breath single is out:https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/track/the-wind-is-calling
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2024 00:14 (one month ago) link
this popped up on boomkat email this week, probably fits here musically but someone will know more about them than i do
Belong:https://boomkat.com/products/realistic-ix
― koogs, Saturday, 10 August 2024 10:24 (one month ago) link
(i only clicked through because i liked the cover)
alternatively i could scroll back like a page...
― koogs, Saturday, 10 August 2024 10:25 (one month ago) link
The Belong album is so MBV drenched, it’s crazy.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 10 August 2024 13:08 (one month ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2245469/tiktok-has-made-shoegaze-bigger-than-ever/columns/sounding-board/are we talking about this anywhere else?― 龜, wednesday 20 december 2023 10:38 (seven months ago)
are we talking about this anywhere else?
― 龜, wednesday 20 december 2023 10:38 (seven months ago)
Wisp (still only 19 years old) played at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium yesterday and reviews are very positive.
In case you didn't click that, here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foTFjWd21e0
― StanM, Sunday, 18 August 2024 07:06 (one month ago) link
Full Cold Gawd set from July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTu5UTnBYZk
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 September 2024 21:05 (three weeks ago) link
Yup, they're something live, caught them a month back here doing an opening set as mentioned upthread a bit and it killed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 September 2024 21:59 (three weeks ago) link
Is there a good Shoegaze thread?
Joe Dilworth (amazing drummer and photographer*) is releasing a book of his photographs from 1987-1994 from London including many, many acts that were performing in the scene before shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent was retroactively applied to it. Many appeared in Melody Maker.
*Joe was the original drummer of Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Th' Faith Healers & Add N to (X). His photographs appeared on hundreds of albums, most notably for this thread: the Isn't Anything front and back covers.
https://bildbandberlin.com/collections/all-books/products/joe-dilworth-everything-all-at-once-foreverhardback, limited to 600
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 28 September 2024 02:49 (four days ago) link
Hmm! Very tempted.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 September 2024 02:50 (four days ago) link