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This new Grimes track is ethereal and refreshing. Excellent for a debut track.

TweetShare Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox keeps things shoegaze but makes it personal. I’ve always preferred his work as Atlas Sound over Deerhunter which I know seems nearly blasphemous but personally I prefer lyrics over psychedelia, and Atlas Sound is an ideal mixture that allows me to appreciate both. This is his first release from the [...]

TweetShare LA four piece Stone Darling are a shoegaze band with a hint of country. Or should I say a country outfit with shoegaze trimmings? It’s tough to say which genre is in the driving seat with this group, especially when their latest seven inch is split so squarely down the middle. “I Stopped Missing [...]

TweetShare  If The Cure did electro-pop, they might end up sounding something like Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Maybe Robert Smith could get a haircut while he was at it, although I guess that would just be a nicety. Also, I heard that that’s where he gets his power. He’s like a really miserable, weedy [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare Brazilian Money, a band that we’ve featured before who have a new and mightily focussed 6-track EP out, turned me on to Little Jungles, and I’m sure glad they did: “Winter Was Warmer”, an impossibly delicious slice of shoegaze that’s drenched in early nineties influences, has instantly become one of my favourite tracks of [...]

TweetShare Taking advantage of their newly-minted Soundcloud page, The Big Pink have been adding some of their music to it over the last couple of weeks or so, whether it be remixes of their songs by other artists, snippets of NEW songs from their as-yet-unannounced-and-untitled album, or this cover of The Cure’s “Lovesong”. If you’re unfamiliar [...]

TweetShare You haven’t heard from me about the band in Heaven for nigh-on nine months now, and you might not have even heard about them at all, so for those of you who fall int that category here’s what you need to know. A duo from Florida, they use their craft to bundle up snappy [...]

TweetShare What the fuck, Franky B Rockafeller, if that is indeed my real name!? I’ve only gone and Introduced The History Of Apple Pie in one of those months that happen every year but in this case it happened in 2010 when it wasn’t quite as hot as it was the month before and not [...]

TweetShare A couple of hours ago London’s The Big Pink uploaded two short snippets from their upcoming second album. There’s no word on what the album’s called, when it’s coming out, on which label it’ll be released (presumably 4AD), artwork, tracklisting or otherwise.  I suppose I could’ve just said “This is all there is to [...]

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TweetShare San Francisco’s Melted Toys are a tough band to pin down. They’re certainly a shoegaze band, but their debut EP “Washed And Dried” explores such a variety of sounds within the mandatory, echoing trimmings of that genre that it’s not immediately clear just what form this three piece will settle on when they get [...]

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TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 I’ve only recently come into contact with World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation, or “Woo Life” as their Wikipedia page says it can be pronounced. They’re one of the bands that sort of slipped through the cracks for me as other parts of my life got [...]

TweetShare If you’re reading this, chances are you consider yourself to at least some extent a fan of underground music. Given that, you might be intrigued to hear about Israeli rockers Modern Tapes. They’re an underground band. No, literally: they formed in a bomb shelter, as well as playing and recording there for nearly a [...]