If you're looking at the graphic above and scratching your head, don't be concerned. There are few effective ways to promote what an unusual but crucial pairing this is, bringing some of the best in shoegaze and dream pop to the great Pacific Northwest. Two Festivals, One Dreamy Weekend This year marks a strong showing for dreamy, shoegaze-, and dreampop-oriented festivals on the West Coast. DreamGaze PDX in Portland, Oregon, […]
We're loaded down with new music this weekend, and it's gonna be a party. Headliners this weekend include Adorer, Hatchie (pictured above), All Sparks Burn Out, Powder Pink & Sweet, An Ocean of Embers, Open Road Archives (spectacular debut!) and Telephonist (spectacular debut!). But there's more: Plastic Girl in Closet, Old Coke, My Raining Stars, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Our Worlds Collide, worse., Sun Colony, Puremoon, Silk, Looser, OMIDARI, Lovina […]
The next great installment of the Kalamashoegazer Festival series arrives this weekend, and for the first time, it's a two-day special event! Ambitious, to be sure, but it's a logical next step for a festival that draws fans from across the country (and beyond), making it a proper destination point for the scene. April Zimont took the time to chat with us about the thought process behind this bill, and […]
We're ready for a Labor Day weekend! And we're celebrating excellent new releases from bloom effect, Indoor Voices (premiered on Melomania Safety Zone), SLOW CRUSH (pictured above), Kid Fears, and Vixsin. And those are just the headliners, there's more: bellweather, The Dead Crowd, Giant Meteor, DETECTS, The Beths, glass egg, In The Afterglow, Tijuana Taxi, Hotspit, Reigning Scarlet, Next Week's Washing and more! Added up, it's more music than weekend, […]
Nobody predicted that all the festivals would pick September to pitch tent. But it's 2025, uncertainty reigns, and shoegaze and dream pop will not be held back. You can imagine our surprise to hear that the venerable Kalamashoegazer Festival was booked for the same weekend as Seattle's Seagaze Festival, with everyone competing for quality bands on both sides of the States, but somehow both bills are packed with fabulosity, with […]
Not sure how it happened, but on a relatively nondescript weekend in August, a torrent of great new shoegaze and dream pop was unleashed on an unsuspecting populace (including us). We're a little tardy in compiling it all due to sheer volume. But that won't stop us celebrating the fantastic efforts of these artists. Headliners this weekend include biatlón (premiered on Krissy's Drowned in a Sea of Sound), Looprider, chokecherry, […]
New music discovery in full effect, and we've got the new for you. Headliners this weekend include Lemondaze, Sweet Tooth, Torre di Fine (pictured above), bosses, Hiccup Heart, lipstick, Shaki Tavi, motifs, and swim school. But there's so much more, including fresh and breaking tracks from PURPLISH, Slow Husky, Western Freeway, twen, Big Heck, nagisami, Los Membrillos, motifs, Kim Frasier, mouse ∕ mouse, Dru, Altai, Dramamine, biatlón, Eastern Bleeds, Bloom […]
Another weekend, and we're not lacking for new sounds. This weekend's headliners include Sunlotus, Wisp (pictured above), Glixen, The Stargazer Lilies (premiered on The Velvet Hum), Plant Cell, bosses, and Pyr. But that only scratches surface. We're diving deep into new sounds from Prettier Now, mofie, Luna Moss, Distressor, Menaura, endless without, No Joy, Archie Sagers, Fever Cult, OSNOVA, Phantom Wave, Blase, Ghostmouth and more. We'll cram all we can into the weekend […]
Another Bandcamp Friday haul, and we're loaded down with crucial new music for your consideration. Headliners this weekend include Sinking_Gardens (premiered on Melomania Safety Zone), Nuclear Daisies, Velvetine, supergloom (pictured above), Yndling, echo foxtrot, Dawn Haze, Honey Saxon, wishwave, and Tebby & The Heavy (you mightn't have heard of this squad yet, but we'll make sure you know now). But there's so much more! New sounds from Hey Calamity, DETECTS, […]
An amazing week for new music, and we're packed to the brim with it. Headliners this weekend include Cold Gawd, Slow Crush, Blankenberge (pictured above), Single Lash, Mount Mural, Headlamp, Moody Moody, and Dawn Haze. But there's so much more! We're digging into the newest sounds from No Joy, Kallai, Hazel English, The Cords, Lowell, Welcome Strawberry, шампур, soyuzpechal, TV Blackout, and Sister Ray Davies. It's a packed weekend, we'll […]
