Indie30 Shoegaze

Photograph Credit: Tajette O’Halloran Yesterday Melbourne shoegaze/dream pop outfit Lowtide released a new single ‘Alibi’, their first effort on Rice Is Nice Records. Musically, it shimmers and excites despite its downcast lyrical realism. Stream it below and look out for...

THE DISTRICTS SHARE NEW TRACK, VIOLET

After sharing two previous singles, ‘Ordinary Day’ and ‘If Before I Wake’ from their forthcoming album Popular Manipulations, The Districts now share a third which is arguably the best of them. The scorchingly epic, ‘Violet’, is a tale on...

TOPS SHARE DAYGLOW BIMBO

Montreal’s TOPS have shared the second track from their forthcoming album Sugar At The Gate. Unlike the sparkly ultra clean sounding ‘Petals’, new track ‘Dayglow Bimbo’ sees David Carriere fuzz up proceedings nicely taking cues from 90s psych and...

SECOND STILL RELEASE S/T DEBUT

Friday saw Los Angeles based outfit Second Still release their self titled debut album. Largely resting on the band’s love for the colder climes the 80s French underground mixed in with elements of post punk and slithers of shoegaze,...

NEW SINGLE + VIDEO FROM TASHAKI MIYAKI, DEBUT LP OUT SOON

Los Angeles based shoegaze pop duo Tashaki Miyaki will release their debut album The Dream next month. Check out the new Kelsey McNamee video for new heartfelt single ‘City’, a bittersweet ode to the disconnectedness and loneliness that inevitably...

A DEAD WEIGHT IN A FLOATING ROOM

Photo: Mikey Duran One of the attractions of living outside mainstream culture is the richness, diversity and dexterity of independently made music. The understanding that life along with its artistic representations can mean one thing and another simultaneously, be...

DOING SONICOLOGY, THE LAURELS STYLE

Today sees the release of Sonicology, the long awaited second full length from Sydney quartet The Laurels. It’s their first long player since 2012’s Plains which gained them a loyal following. Less a mixture of early 90s derived psych...

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