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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Psychedelic gazers The Stargazer Lilies returned in 2022 with a new studio album three years after their outstanding 2019 release, Occabot. The album was recorded over those few years in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, in Austin, TX, and Central Florida. Cosmic Tidal Wave was one of my albums of the year and remains a firm favourite to this day. The band have teamed up with the good folks over […]
If you listen to DKFM, you're likely familiar with Magic Shoppe. They've graced our airwaves with nearly 1000 plays over the last seven-plus years (because we count these things). Well we've got great news: Boston's connoisseurs of noisy shoegaze Magic Shoppe are kicking off 2024 with a brand new single, and a sharpened edge. "Something Hollow" is the first track from the band's upcoming full length Down The Wych Elm, […]
Maybe new to us, but certainly not new: Nim have released three full-length albums and many other singles, and have also conducted large-scale overseas tours in Australia, China, and South Korea. While their new EP was recorded in Kyoto, it is mixed and mastered in Austin, and represented by two labels: FABTONE for Asian territories, and Shifting Sounds for much the rest of the world. To generate this much international […]
We first discovered Newmoon in January of 2016, as we were slightly late to lurch into the Invitation To Hold EP. But what was obvious was a certain mastery of sound and mood that these Belgian standouts possessed. Not overtly showy, more tightly controlled and expansive in their approach, it was obvious (to us, at least) that these lads were going somewhere. By the time their Space LP launched into […]
In pandemic times, DKFM rolled out the DreamGaze Worldwide virtual festival, hoping to draw our community together once again while socially distanced, and to promote new and breaking artists in our chosen genres. One artist who broke all molds and defied expectations was Jenna Fournier, frontperson of NIIGHTS and a talented visual artist (paint/graphic design). Her solo project, Kid Tigrrr, was generating airplay and buzz for its subtle, understated approach […]
Drop Nineteens release Hard Light, their first album in nearly thirty years, on Friday 3 November, via Wharf Cat Records. And we're going to celebrate, every day, all week long. We've got a fresh World Broadcast Premiere from the album every night, 11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific, Monday through Thursday. We're spinning up a one-hour edit of Thais' headline-making interview with Greg Ackell from nearly one year ago today (so big […]
