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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been a long time since shoegaze has felt as invigorated as it does right now. But before examining the riveting state of the present-day shoegaze landscape, it's important to revisit what ...

Shoegaze, the hypnotic rock genre named for the way musicians would stare at their feet while manipulating guitar pedals, was a ’90s thing, or at least it was until My Bloody Valentine began ...

As a genre, it feels like shoegaze was designed with film soundtracks specifically in mind. The genre's defining characteristics — effect-laden guitars, drowned-out vocals, dreamlike arrangements, and ...

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 ...

"Shoegaze" was not initially meant as a compliment. Like "impressionists" (used dismissively by an art critic in 1874), "Krautrock," or more recently "deplorable(s)," the phrase began life as a fairly ...