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 ...

Japanese metal/shoegaze veterans Coaltar of the Deepers (who Hazing Over fka Shin Guard recently covered and namdropped as an influence on their new EP Pestilence) resurfaced in 2018 with the ...

Fans of shoegaze / heavy crossover may want to turn their attention to Charlotte, NC’s Fake Eyes, who showed off a strong Hum influence on their 2018 demo and 2019 promo, and who are pretty open about ...

Shoegaze has become such a widespread generic descriptor, it’s hard to gather much from it beyond its inherent connotations of “washy, reverb-y, possibly loud electric guitars.” For instance, it ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. With a distinct, silken voice and a compositional flair ...

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 ...

The etymology of "shoegaze" remains to this day an open question. Coined at some point in the mid to late '80s by an overzealous British music press, the term rapidly became used to describe a wildly ...

Hotline TNT mastermind Will Anderson writes shoegaze songs like he’s in a power-pop band. His melodies combine sweet immediacy with quick-and-dirty bluntness, and he supersizes them with the genre’s ...

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 ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Asian Glow first came to my attention with Paraglow, ...

I respected the dreamy surf rock that La Luz created in their early years, but was among the minority of listeners who were never really wowed by it. Consequently, I drifted away from keeping close ...