In a way, they were right. The fervor around shoegazers — a title given to bands with this specific, ethereal sonic style, who spent stage time managing their pedalboards instead of connecting with ...

Everybody's initial pandemic months were rough, but London-based musician Nabihah Iqbal's were rougher than most. In early 2020, a burglar ransacked her studio and absconded with the follow-up album ...

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 power trio Wray is at a crucial moment in its career. Its members—singer and bassist David Brown, guitarist David Swatzell and drummer Blake Wimberly—are all in their 30s, having knocked around ...

Every music genre has two things in common: 1) No two people agree on its precise boundaries; 2) Artists dislike being labeled as such. Shoegaze is no different. It’s a particularly unusual genre in ...

It’s one thing for musicians to follow in the footsteps of a legendary band they grew up admiring. It’s another to go into the studio and record with that band’s producer. Less than five years into ...

Are you a “fuzzy”? Do you like putting all of your pictures through filters like a hip little shit? Do you like acid? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’d probably also enjoy taking ...

Familiarity and admiration, as French author George Sand once explained, are strangers. And rarely has this adage proved more sadly applicable in the musical sphere than in the crossover between ...

Have you heard about the shoegaze music scene in Singapore? Less popular than indie music, shoegaze originated from Britain in the 1980s, and is named after a kind of motionless performing style.

Multi-instrumentalists Andrew Warner and Chris Taylor played in a few acts together in 2001, including Government Cud, which Warner describes as “a band about cows, aliens, infectious proteins and ...