Hearing my bloody valentine’s “Loveless” for the first time was life-changing. The crushing and viscerally disorienting guitar tones along with the dreamy vocals changed my perception of what rock ...

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 ...

A monkey in the zoo, defiantly staring down passersby. A woman trembling as she reveals her injuries from a horrific car accident. A lovelorn soul eating ice cream and crying. A masked and helmeted ...

Wisp’s debut EP Pandora might be the most audacious shoegaze release of 2024, simply because it exists. After all, what’s a greater risk than putting reality in competition with a narrative developed ...

Shoegaze is having a moment. It’s not the first moment for the cult-fave genre—a hypnotic amalgam of gossamer vocals and distorted guitars played, often loudly, through an army of nifty effects pedals ...

Shoegaze is having a moment. At least it seems like it. A few years ago, a band that preferred washed-out, distorted guitars and soft-loud vocals would categorically be called indie rock or dream pop ...

the stoned and lonely teens and the obsessive gear heads. It united them both with intensely emotional songs and a stage full of stomp boxes. Here are 10 of the genre's best albums. Swervedriver were ...

With a name derived from the way band members would simply stare down at their shoes while playing on stage, shoegaze is a subgenre of rock music with a massive cult following that got its start in ...

In a packed venue full of leather jackets, flannels and the unmistakable aura of nostalgia, Slowdive reminded me why they remain at the heart of the shoegaze genre. Over three decades after their ...

We've covered plenty of subgenres here over the years and it's time to give due to the "Big 4" bands that gave shoegaze its push in the heavy music world dating back to the late '80s and early '90s.

"I'm really happy right now," Domenic Palermo says, his voice quivering with joy. "I feel like I'm doing the right thing for once, and that's not a normal thing for me." It's just after 3PM on ...