Shoegaze, the genre defined by its dense guitar effects and ethereal vocals, is experiencing a vibrant revival through both established acts and newer 'Zoomergaze' artists. Musicians like Trxy!, Glare ...

Shoegaze shuffled into the '90s with a fresh, innovative, and very distorted sound, and these songs may remind you of more ...

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 ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...

There was a slow, two-minute build. The drums began to accelerate and subdivide. The bass switched its pattern, following the drums’ rhythm. The sung melody soared over it all, an angelic wordless ...

Ride play at Portugal's NOS Primavera Sound festival in June 2015. Credit: deepskyobject via Flickr In late 2014, a giant black banner appeared on the side of a building in Barcelona, Spain, the home ...

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 ...

Korea's indie music scene has a long history of shoegaze, a subgenre of rock music that fuses dense layers of distorted and heavily reverbed guitars with melancholic, wispy vocals. However, that ...