For your Sunday dose of shoegaze, here’s Black Tambourine’s “Throw Aggi Off The Bridge.”
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Shoegazer Sunday: Black Tambourine’s “Throw Aggi Off The Bridge”
Sunday, October 27th, 2013Shoegazer Sunday: Velveteen’s “Poster Boy”
Sunday, October 20th, 2013Velveteen is a band from Germany most famous (for certain values of “famous”) for having their album hoaxed as a Death Cab for Cutie album. (Disclaimer: I couldn’t recognize a Death Cab for Cutie song with a gun to my head.) Correction: The band wrote to note they’re the London Velveteen, not the German one. “Poster Boy” is another video whose theme is “War is bad and stuff.” Or alternately, “stock footage from the Vietnam is pretty cheap.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Ride’s “OX4”
Sunday, October 13th, 2013Here’s another dose of classic UK Shoegaze band Ride with “OX4.” Hard to understand how this never charted, as it has a perfect, catchy pop melody underpinning it.
It reminds me a little of Brain Eno’s early solo work…
Shoegazer Sunday: Starframe’s “Broody Soldier”
Sunday, October 6th, 2013Here’s another dose of Italy’s Starframes with “Broody Solider,” whose message seems to be that war is bad and stuff.
The video appears to have been done by somebody who watched Tapeheads.
Shoegaze Sunday: The Telewire’s “Never Been Alive”
Sunday, September 29th, 2013Here’s another dose of The Telewire. “Never Been Alive” sounds like The Archies dropping acid.
I mean that in a good way.
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Push”
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013Sunday’s does of Shoegaze comes top you from SPC ECO (supposedly pronounced “Space Echo”)’s “Push”:
There’s also a tiny bit of 8-bit and dub in there for flavor.
I listened to this and few of their other song’s and went “This sounds a bit like Curve,” and indeed half the duo is Dean Garcia, who was in Curve.
Musical Mashup Frenzy
Friday, September 20th, 2013Someone did a mashup of The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” with The Knack’s “My Sharona,” Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi” and a few other things, and damn if it isn’t catchy, especially when you get about 4:00 in.
Then again, I’m a sucker for additive processes leading up to a glorious wall-of-sound climax.
It reminds me a lot of The Killers’ “All These Things That I’ve Done,” so here that is as well:
Shoegazer Sunday: The Sunshine Factory’s “My Sugar Cane”
Sunday, September 15th, 2013For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Mobile, Alabama-based The Sunshine Factory, with the bright, distortion-drenched “My Sugar Cane.”
Really, more regular blogging will resume Any Day Now…
Shoegaze Sunday: The Telewire’s “Feels Like Fire”
Sunday, September 8th, 2013Another Austin Shoegaze band (“band” in this case evidently being one guy, Stephen Thurman) shows up. “Feels Like Fire” sounds like Shoegaze by way of psychadelia with a little Devo thrown in for good measure.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Great Wilderness’ “Dark Horse”
Sunday, August 25th, 2013The Great Wilderness is an all-girl post-punk band from Costa Rica, and “Dark House” has a nice gaze sound to the guitars.