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, […]
Plenty new material to celebrate this weekend, including the new LP from Trauma Ray that's been much buzzed about. But we're deep in great new tunes to share! Headliners include Pure Hex, Relay Tapes, She's In Parties, Springloader (pictured above), Brief Candles, Momma and more. A fantastic support cast is also on offer: fresh sounds from Glimmer, The Blue Herons, Seko, Farewell Days, WYBIE, Lone Seagull, After Daylight, Georgian, pure […]
It's a new weekend, between Kalamashoegazer and DreamGaze PDX, and we have new music. Much new music. So much it delayed this very rollout. And here we are. Headliners this weekend include, first among equals: Mo Dotti. The new opaque LP is the fulfillment of so much early promise, and it carries you aloft from beginning to end. More headliners? We've got chokecherry, Blue Cinema, Slowwves, Tanukichan, The Prids, Bloom […]
We'll take the chaos of new releases and sort them, prioritize them for your consumption. It's a job, it's a hobby, it's a joy. We're spinning up freshness from the likes of Previous Love, Family Mart, Geography of the Moon, beabadoobee, dirishu6, So Many Lines, Dream Suicides, Космос на потолке, Still Dreams, Soft Blue Shimmer (new 2020 lineup pictured above), gong wah, Brief Candles, Dreams of Empire, Soft Kill, Sugar […]
It's Brief Candles week. With all the newness we've shoveled into the big weekend, Brief Candles' new LP stands head and shoulders above the rest, and not just because it seems we've waited forever for it. So we'll be celebrating that release this weekend, and many weeks to come. But we have so much more on offer. The new EP from Japan's CQ shows a return to epic form. We've […]
Edited photo above courtesy Thomas Helbig (teliko82), Creative Commons license. Tickets were made available today for the midwest's premiere festival for shoegaze and dream pop, Kalamashoegazer. Now in its eleventh installment, this DIY festival has become the gold standard for festivals of its kind, and the venue change to Bell's Brewery is an upgrade everyone is genuinely enthusiastic about. Tonight, we air a special program celebrating Kalamashoegazer XI, and the […]
Edited photo above courtesy Thomas Helbig (teliko82), Creative Commons license. Tickets were made available today for the midwest's premiere festival for shoegaze and dream pop, Kalamashoegazer. Now in its eleventh installment, this DIY festival has become the gold standard for festivals of its kind, and the venue change to Bell's Brewery is an upgrade everyone is genuinely enthusiastic about. Tonight, we air a special program celebrating Kalamashoegazer XI, and the […]
This weekend, New Tracks Weekend brings the brightest and freshest sounds from Brief Candles, Nothing (full LP still a month out, ffs), Hermetic Delight, Beverly, Life on Venus, HYLA, Saint God, Code Ascending, Panda Panda, plus classic choons from The Fakes. We got this. Not to neglect last week's new treasures from Lush, Miniatures, Bloody Knives, The Joy Formidable, Desario, Major Leagues, Nite Fields, Grabbel and the Final Cut, Jaguwar, […]
Leftovers are for suckers. We bring the new. Shiny new treats from Brief Candles, Cull, Miniatures, Soundwire, Hammock, Cascadia, Slow Bird, Alaskus, cockamamie, Vicent Martin, Soundwave, Jaq Gallier and more! We're underway at 8 pm Eastern, 5 Pacific Friday night, continuing all weekend. It's the first weekend we'll spin some of these tracks, and may be the last weekend for some others. Live365 listeners: it’s your votes that count! Your […]
