For Friday the 13th, enjoy Social Distortion’s “Bad Luck”:
I keep telling people that 1991-1992 was a great time to be listening to music on the radio…
Alvvays hail from Canada, and “In Undertow” is off their album Antisocialites.
So how did I miss this until now?
Hope Sandoval has a voice like aged bourbon and honey…
I was thinking about putting up something from Echodrone’s new album, but I stumbled across their cover of “Celebrated Summer” by Husker Du (a band never, ever, ever associated with Shoegaze). This is a case where the cover is much better than the original.
Plus old home movies have a certain fascination to them.
Also, bitrot seems to have have removed two of my favorite Echodrone songs from previous Shoegazer Sunday entries, so here are “Under an Impressive Sky”:
And “Gravity”:
The original version used clips from Memoirs of a Giesha, which is probably why it’s not online anymore…
Echodrone has a new album out*, Past, Preset and Future, and “The Past or the Present” is a track off that.
*Correction: Evidently it doesn’t drop until January 23.
Just heard the news that Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer for The Cranberries, has just died at the untimely age of 46.
There were most famous for “Zombie” and a few other hits, but my favorite song of theirs has always been the melancholy “Daffodil Lament.” Here’s a live version.
(Hat tip: Derek Johnson.)
To celebrate New Year’s Eve, here’s everyone’s favorite mad inventor firing 1000 rockets off a bicycle. (For certain values of “bicycle.”)
Happy New Year!
Finally, a video that combines two of the biggest obsessions this time of year:
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Despite the name, this Shoegaze outfit hails from Los Angeles. Hope you like practical lights and glowing, superimposed lyrics.
“Directed by James Franco.” Really?
Including the KTMA intro, which I had never seen before. It’s a chance to see and hear just how the intro has changed over the years.