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Tokyo’s Hammer Head Shark are gearing up to release a new EP entitled Air next month, but beyond that they haven’t offered up any more information like a track list or precise release date.

Slow Fiction sound like a lotta things; there’s all of shoegaze, post-punk, garage rock in there, but you wouldn’t even think about using one of those as a single descriptive adjective for them when there exists the perfect one – New York.

Toronto’s Neverminds recently returned from their second Asian tour – impressive for a band that’s yet to release a full-length album – and one of the artifacts that followed them back was live footage from ubiquitous Japanese shoegaze documentarian Angel…

Wednesday’s post sent me down a rabbit hole of tribute compilations that The Blog That Celebrates Itself had assembled over their lifespan and it’s quite impressive – very much the American Laundromat business model.

There’s not much on Just For A Life, a tribute album to Slowdive curated by now-defunct shoegaze blog The Blog That Celebrates Itself, that would have caught my eye or ear when it was released in 2017 – I knew the songs, obviously, but none of the artists.

Even if she didn’t make lushly icy dreampop that draws as much from the trip-hop scene of the ’90s as the shoegaze, Yndling – the musical project of Oslo’s Silje Espevik – would probably elicit those same sorts of adjectives just from how her Norwegian ac…

A lot of bands I cover here fit very well into genre pigeonholes, and a lot of those like being in those pigeonholes and a lot of their fans like them in those pigeonholes, and that’s all fine.

I’d like to think I’ve been reasonably diligent in covering music from non-English-speaking parts of the world, but my attention has been mainly focused on Asia and Europe.

Luna return to Toronto tonight for the first time in seven years, settling in at Lee’s Palace, the room I saw them in every time before they bid farewell almost 22 years ago.

If the return of The Radio Dept. to both the stage and the studio this year wasn’t cause enough for celebration, they’re also returning to record stores this year.

We’ve got a rare foray into semi-self promotion today.

The famous may be in Toronto right now for TIFF, but the otaku will be at The Horseshoe for the next two nights as this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicks off.

For a discography as long and deep as The Cure’s, there’s surely going to be some missed gems but I’m quite surprised I’d never heard their 2001 single, “Cut Here” before it showed up in my algorithm recently.

London quintet sadplanet threw their hats into the ring with a trio of singles spread out across 2024 but have waited until now to make their proper first statement via their debut EP Slowing Down, which came out last week.

Most of the discourse around Sad Lovers & Giants hereabouts has focused on their earliest works and specifically the labyrinthine mess of singles, EPs, albums, and compilations that make finding and owning the material that cemented them as one of the best

The two stages of Kinoko Teikoku’s career are pretty clearly delineated into their indie era and their major label era, each covering three of their six total albums (though trainspotters would probably draw that line one album earlier, into shoegaze/non-…

I usually don’t have too much trouble deciding if I am going to title a post about non-English bands with their native language or the translations – I generally prefer the former because it’s more “authentic” and I’m pretentious like that – but I had to…

Sometimes I can’t put a finger on what it is that makes one band’s sound appealing to me while another might bore me, but in the case of London’s World News, I knew what it was immediately – they love the flanger.

My socials keep me pretty aware of any time Slowdive performs live anywhere around the world, but last weekend’s show supporting The Cure and Mogwai in Edinburgh seemed particularly amplified, what with friends and celebrities also in attendance, and so my

While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st century.

Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass.

Having spent the time since the release of their debut album 27℃ last Summer touring, touring, and more touring (all in Asia of course), Hammer Head Shark have finally taken the time to release their first new music of 2026.

Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s Encarta 98 and TALES,…

After following every pre-release milestone that deary set leading up to the release of their debut full-length album Birding back in April, I’ve not checked back in because following a Spring UK/Europe tour to promote the record, they’ve kept a relatively

I haven’t done a Cure post in a while, nor an Iterations, so let’s do both!