It’s been seven years since I last posted a Speaker Gain Teardrop song (damn, I’ve been doing these for that long?), so here’s the lushly beautiful “Galveston”:
What a band from Hiroshima is doing naming a song after a Texas port I couldn’t tell you…
Another Rachel Goswell side project. Really more Shoegaze tinged retro ambient lounge, maybe somewhere between Malory and Echodrone at their softest.
Enjoy Broken Little Sister, another obscure Japanese Shoegazer band, which supposedly includes members of Civic. “Blue,” off their Memories, Violet & Demons album, sounds a little bit like Presents for Sally’s “When We All Move Away.”
This is more noisepop than Shoegaze, but it’s similar to some songs I’ve put up, so here it is:
As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
When in doubt, post a Slowdive cover…
At least it has a name now…
You may never have heard of Thurl Ravenscroft, but you’re almost certainly heard him many, many times in your life. He was Tony the Tiger, the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and about a hundred Disney characters.
This is an interesting interview with him.
He died in 2005.
I was watching this and thinking “Another nice parody, Mr Reynolds!”
Then I found out it was real…
Let’s use the obvious meme:
The cat is now officially out of the bag:
Quick thoughts: