Regular listeners will surely know of New Age Healers. This Seattle squad fronted by guitarist and vocalist Owen Murphy has been a staple of guitar-based shoegaze and alternative rock, and a regular on our airwaves since 2016. They've also proven to be a regular and reliable draw at the annual Seagaze festival, where they've carved a direct channel to fans with their crisp songwriting that doesn't rely solely on ample […]
They've been teasing it for over a month, but the unlocking is on the horizon: a special one-off concert performance, professionally captured in audio and video, by three bands at the peak of their powers: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Blushing, and EEP, performing live at Love Buzz in El Paso, Texas on April 28, 2022. The full concert will have its YouTube live premiere on the EEP YouTube channel […]
Our studios practically lit up last month, as word of a new album from Denver's moody shoegaze veterans A Shoreline Dream started making the rounds. As their career has advanced, they've borrowed more and more heavily from a darker aspect, a more goth/darkwave backbone to their shoegaze journeys, and we'd been given no reason to believe that would change on this outing. Fast forward to, well, today, and here we […]
With the release of Half Life, the new album from CASTLEBEAT I was dying to find out all about it. Luckily, Josh Hwang was available for a chat. We had a great conversation about the album, CASTLEBEAT and his label Spirit Goth. If you want to know how he honed that signature sound and what bands he has coming up for release on Spirit Goth then read on! […]
Andy Jossi is never one to do a thing halfway. His sonic sculptures rival his visual work in depth and intensity, as rich visuals often match sumptuous sonic swells. Sure, we may have occasionally chided about near-epic-length songs, but The Churchhill Garden is his project: he writes the sonic structure, he decorates with swirls and filigree, and he allows each creation to unfold at its own pace, never sacrificing until […]
It's not really supposed to happen this way. By the time the third single from a forthcoming album drops, you can often expect an attendant drop in quality. This is not that, in fact, far from it. We, like the rest of the shoegaze-loving world, have been waiting for the February 18th release of Blushing's Possessions LP on Kanine Records. The first two singles were understandably a cut above, reaching […]
It’s been a year since their stunning debut album Death of a Very Good Machine and Eep are back with their sophomore release Winter Skin. Bands tend to place a bit more time between albums but with a global pandemic stopping live shows and a band full of creative minds there’s no stopping Eep. The debut album predominately featured the lush vocals of Rosie Varela. This time the band have […]
Formed in 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, re:lapse is a supergroup of sorts. Finding each other, and sharing their talents at the most fortuitous moment, well, that's just serendipity. We're grateful to Marky Anderson for the interview, re:lapse for agreeing to a translated interview (where language barriers can unintentionally obscure intention), Matthew and Ayumi for facilitating the interview and managing the translation. We're thrilled to have this opportunity. –Ed. Marky Anderson: […]
Krissy VanderWoude got the opportunity to sit down and chat with the cast of Film School (some of them, anyway) about the creative process, tour planning during the COVID era, the addition of new cast members (and much more) for her 18 August 2021 transmission of Drowned in a Sea of Sound. While that interview was pared down to a bite-sized seven minutes, this extended cut provides a much wider […]
