― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
I would click the "Free Sample Issue" button on the side and see what happens.
This zine is run by Ryan Anderson who used to play with Fuxa back in the old Michigan space rock days. Each issue comes with a free cd comp that is mostly showgaze and space rock. If you are interested in that sound they are very worth picking up. Ryan keeps the prices dirt cheap, they cost $7.20 a piece and that covers the shipping.
If you do decide to pick up back issues I would recommend that you start with issue three and work your way forward. The first couple issues were a bit patchy but they got better with every following issue.
As far as bands go, I would recommend looking into Tristeza/The Album Leaf, Cerberus Shoal, Landing, Hinterland, and Tex La Homa. ESOJ's(the surface noise) and Ned's picks are both completely otm and I would have recommended them myself if they had not beaten me to the punch.
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 14 December 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
The Meeting Places as well...reasonable enough rotegaze.
M83, now lemme tell ya, I guess I enjoyed the album the one time I heard it, but that was six months ago and I haven't felt any need to listen again.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
Everyone should hear the new For Against.
― JC (JC A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
Also Trespassers William, whose cover of Ride's "Vapour Trail" is gorgeous and a fair sign of how they sound in general.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 15 December 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― desolert (desolate), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)tnx!
― jose m lozano II, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
Clairecords is the biggest shoegaze label out there at the moment, or for the past 5 years for that matter. They also run Tonevendor, the biggest mailorder for the related genres. Just look at some of the bands they've released.
Monster Movie (ex-slowdive)Astrobrite (loveliescrushing)Highspire MaloryAirielThe Ecstasy of St. TheresaPaikStella LunaElectro GroupCon DoloreMahogonyPia FrausSciflyerHartfield, Air Formationetc.
You want bands not on Claire?
Ulrich SchnaussM83the Meeting PlacesExperimental AircraftSkywavethe Emerald DownLandingWhirlawayAlcian BlueBethany CurveVoyager 1
That's just about everyone you need to know that's been doing good shoegaze type stuff over the past 5 years.
― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
they have some samples here which i cannot understate how much they should be listened to.
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
I really like Ulrich Schnauss. Electro IDM-ish shoegaze.
Highspire's currently my favorite out of the bunch. Their new cd is really great. I find myself humming some of their hooks a lot.
I find Bethany Curve and Voyager 1 a bit to inaccessible for my tastes. Good music to go to sleep to though.
― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
I think shoegaze is a pretty boring concept nowadays (I went to this gig a few years ago where they gave out this compilation CD of lots of new shoegazer bands and they all sucked) but I did like the last Voyager One album "Monster Zero".
― bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― mas, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
kairon; irse is proggier/psychier than any of the original blend shoegaze bands imo. good stuff tho
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:04 (four months ago) link
speaking of 'we have [x] at home', this Bloody Comeback song is Ulver at home lol (I am enjoying it)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:06 (four months ago) link
but yeah where are the kids trying to sound like this ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJwXe4dmSc
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
i still have my copy of turning into small. such a great mesh of my stereolab valentine. thy did it best in the states.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:32 (four months ago) link
have put Frysh on, it's sounding quite interesting, excellent Y2Kwave (see also that one Fireside album)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
we are however massively off-topic lol
Pitchfork w/their 2023 shoegaze revival articlehttps://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-shoegaze-revival-hit-its-stride-in-2023/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:04 (four months ago) link
It has long seemed to me like the shoegaze approach to rock that has never dated or gone on a downswing, unlike the genres that it rose from -- goth, jangle, NYC noise, post-hardcore. Maybe because it has always sat in a sweet spot just below mainstream, accumulating interest as listeners age into it, hooks always buried enough you have to search for them. I don't really associate it with a generation or a wave. Like, when the UK music press tossed it aside, it was just getting going in the US.
― bendy, Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:23 (four months ago) link
I remember feeling a bit superior about that at the time, the landmark MBV/Ride/Slowdive albums had been and gone - with just the occasional mention of the term as an arch callback to its original put-down usage - and then the US was all “hay guys I looooove shoegaze” and lots of not-really-relevant or second-rate bands being picked up seemingly at random.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:58 (four months ago) link
i was way into it and it woulda happened if it wasn’t for that meddling grunge. but all grunge did was push shoegaze just under the surface where it’s festered and now it is a wonderful ubiquitous toxic algae bloom.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:05 (four months ago) link
Concrete Avalanche posts a pretty good intro guide to Chinese shoegaze https://jakenewby.substack.com/p/a-beginners-guide-to-chinese-shoegaze
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:14 (two months ago) link
Really into the new somesurprises record, they’re touring the east coast in a couple weeks https://somesurprises.bandcamp.com/album/perseids
― JoeStork, Monday, 29 April 2024 15:24 (five days ago) link
Yeah I need to get around to listening to that -- Catbus, a Bluesky account I've been following for a while for the good new shoegaze recs, has talked this up and I know I have it around here somewhere!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2024 15:27 (five days ago) link