For a brief two or three years, there was a huge wave of shoegaze bands coming out of the UK. In a general sense, the shoegaze genre fused the swirling,...
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For one brief moment, the Boo Radleys were great. Whereas their previous album had been a fairly routine (if still decent) shoegaze affair, the aptly named Giant Steps (1993) incorporated...
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I’ve made plenty of disparaging remarks about Ride’s ho-hum vocals—which in my estimation seem to run the emotional gamut between bored and comatose—but there’s no doubt the band has some...
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Sometimes timing and luck are everything. On their first three EPs, Curve emerged from the mass of contemporary UK shoegaze bands with something new—they introduced aggressive electro beats to a...
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It is a true testament to the decency of my college roommate during the 1988-1989 school year that he never burned my Sonic Youth Sister album, which I played fairly...
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A truly international act, formed in New York City by twin Italian brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace and Japanese art student Kazu Makino, Blonde Redhead got their start as an...
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There are folks who worship My Bloody Valentine. I’m not one of them. But I appreciate them quite a bit. They weren’t the only shoegaze band out there, but they…
You could be forgiven for dismissing the Cocteau Twins as mere pretty-sounding fluff. That’s kind of what they are. They take atmospherics to a new level. The guitar is put...
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