People love sloths. They’re cute as hell, slow as molasses, and, unfortunately, many are super-endangered. There’s a whole internet subculture dedicated to the adorableness of sloths: Cute baby sloths, sloths getting potty trained, Super Cute Sloths …
“The only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That’s …
Editor’s note: The following article discusses events within some of the first five episodes of HBO’s The Night Of and contains spoilers. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched the first …
There’s no other way to put this, so let’s cut to the chase: Nobody is doing what Thud is doing. Nobody comes close. There are a lot of bands out there effectively trying to capture …
so, the thing about early brit new wave/shoegaze, different from american shoegaze/new wave, was the brits were rooted in brit r&b too, like spandau ballet and things like that. i mean, the only real difference …
We humans tend to tie music to the milestones of our short lives. Whether it’s a birthday, wedding, or bar mitzvah, it doesn’t take a lot of looking to find a DJ or streaming radio …
more on the dreamscape/dreampop side of shoegaze… breathy synths, not a lot of distortion, nor abrupt changes; instead many layers of evolving bits of sonic details fading in and out carried by large melodic chords …
Residents of Denver take solace: You’re not too high. Denver’s mobile data speeds are the worst. Literally. According to RootMetrics, an analytics firm that says it “scientifically tests[s] mobile network performance around the world,” Denver’s …
Republicans have this curious habit of loudly decrying something for a hot minute before doing a complete 180 and appropriating that exact same idea without attribution or even the slightest hint of self-awareness. Perhaps it’s …
Milan-based producer Manfredi Lamartina, AKA Novanta, spent some time in Iceland last year and walked away moved by his experience. “Iceland seems a little piece of paradise with breathtaking landscapes and a general feeling of …
Novanta feels ‘new’ to me. classic shoegaze elements, poundy drums and driving bass, reverb’d vocals, mixed with modern details like tremolo picking and long delay decays. the album feels a little scattered, almost like a …
“Try everything at least once…anything that you’re curious about, give it at least one try.” There’s nothing new with that bit of advice. If you start typing it in as an online search, Google will …
Canadian-Ukranian husband and wife duo Ummagma (Shauna McLarnon and Alexander Kretov) has been making waves in the underground music scene for several years now–both in the music they create and their promotional prowess. McLarnon’s Shameless …
the vocals are very clean and pretty and the band/song concepts are rich and very well thought out. if this came to me in the right frame of mind id be obsessed with it for …
S T F U are certainly more on the industrial, trip-hop, not-quite-darkwave side of dreamscape music. if youre into far less aggressive sin/pretty hate machine-era nine inch nails, then this is your deal. What The …
Back in the nu-metal era, when white suburban adolescent anger was being expressed by a steady stream of hip hop inspired, baggy-jeaned white dudes with weird beards and questionable mic skills, Wayne Static, the late …
Stella Diana is back and better than ever. The Italian trio first caught our ear on the Revolution — The Shoegaze Revival compilation with Isabeau, a lo-fi Italian language post-punk inspired track that stood out …
After catching our attention last year with what we described as “a short, angsty trip through retro punk inspired soundscapes,” Italian act Jambox is at it again with their latest EP, Spleen. With five tracks …
Editor’s note: The following article discusses the first episode of HBO’s The Night Of and contains spoilers. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched the first episode in is entirety. Proceed …
This article first appeared at MarijuanaPolitics. I also write for those guys. The Gazette is at it again. Not one to shy away from borderline libelous innuendo and flagrant cannabis scaremongering, the little paper (in …
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