PINKSHINYULTRABLAST – GRANDFEATHERED
SPUTNIK OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC
shoegaze
Wray — Hypatia
To anyone with an eye or ear on the best new tunes bubbling up, there’s an inescapable presence of incoming innovation in…
Beliefs — Leapers
I once heard a theory that popular musical genres recycle about every 30 years. If this is true, then we’re coming up…
Helen — The Original Faces
Liz Harris’s soprano is angelic, but by no means delicate. If the distortion-induced haze and cascading bass lines of Helen’s The Original…
Younghusband — “Better Times”
You’ve got to hand it to the UK for giving the world some of its more memorable proper nouns. While Boston has…
CHIMES — PSYCHIC SLACK
Chimes is a four-piece shoegaze band from Brooklyn (or New Jersey?) who incorporate elements of pop, punk, and psychedelic rock. The 2-song…
White Poppy — “Confusion”
White Poppy is one of the Vancouver scene’s best-kept secrets. A goddess of ethereal, gauzy electro-pop, White Poppy (aka Crystal Dorval) continues…
Weed — Running Back
It has been said to death at this point, but I find it pretty astounding that no other band decided to call…
Balms — s/t
It’s almost summer and time to hang out on the beach. Let Balms be your soundtrack. It’s got enough poppy energy for rocking…
Franky Flowers — “Sneakers”
I love living in Boston, but between the weather and now this latest track from Franky Flowers, Los Angeles is making a…
Wildhoney — Sleep Through It
The recent renewal of shoegaze music down the East Coast has become more than a sporadic, short-lived revival. Despite skeptics of the…
(11/18) BEAUTIFUL NOISE (2014) DIR. ERIC GREEN @BRATTLE
Special premiere screening as part of the Brattle’s Reel Music Film Festival! Exciting! The way I remember it, in the beginning, Cocteau…
