Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A montage of shoegaze bands There’s a meme which circulates the internet from time to time depicting a serious-looking child, sat ...

These five albums from Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Drop Nineteens, and more helped establish the conventions of the ...

History doesn't repeat, but its guitars sure do chime. However, to call it a down year for shoegaze would require strenuous amounts of cynicism and incuriosity. Every week, I felt like I stumbled into ...

Shoegaze has entered its heretofore unforeseen Billboard era, as documented in Eli Enis’s sprawling December story for Stereogum. TikTok has helped propel young artists just out of high school (or, in ...

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 ...

Chicago shoegaze band Sunshy released their debut album, I Don’t Care What Comes Next, in 2024. Credit: Ayethaw Tun On September 29, a newish music festival called Slide Away announced its first ...

Emerging from the U.K.'s vibrant indie scene of the late '80s, shoegaze is the sound bath of rock sub-genres, and for some of its songs, the first listen will always be the best. Bands like My Bloody ...

Dice Tam—known on the record‑label circuit as Dea—released his debut EP SeeYouSoon in March 2026, marking the first time the ...

The EP, short for extended play, is more than a single but less than an album. The format really came into its own in the late-’70s/early-’80s with punk, post ...

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 ...

On March 14, Slowdive, the British originators of the shoegaze musical genre, played their first Hong Kong gig in a decade as part of their 2024 world tour, promoting the band’s latest album, ...

The genre known as shoegaze got its name from guitarists staring at their racks of effects pedals while performing onstage, and the sound associated with it is appropriately laden with guitar effects.