As this noisy rock subgenre has surged in popularity, young midwestern artists—Sunshy, Griefeater, Interlay—have played a key role in its evolution.

Enveloping us with a miasma of distorted guitar and melancholy lyrics, the first listen of these shoegaze songs by bands such ...

Unlike the founding introverts whose reticence gave shoegaze its name, No Clue are unabashed in their penchant for high drama ...

Minneapolis — One of the bandleaders wound up being a renowned rock producer. Another now builds guitar effects pedals for much more famous musicians. Mostly, though, the five Twin Cities groups ...

Everybody's initial pandemic months were rough, but London-based musician Nabihah Iqbal's were rougher than most. In early 2020, a burglar ransacked her studio and absconded with the follow-up album ...

Shoegaze is having a moment. At least it seems like it. A few years ago, a band that preferred washed-out, distorted guitars and soft-loud vocals would categorically be called indie rock or dream pop ...

Jane Remover and underscores: both young, both producing music since they were even younger and both pioneers in the hyperpop landscape. With the release of their respective debut albums in 2021, ...

Music journalist Simon Reynolds will chart the rise of shoegaze, slacker rock, and grunge in a new work Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994, to be published ...

Shoegaze, the genre defined by its dense guitar effects and ethereal vocals, is experiencing a vibrant revival through both established acts and newer 'Zoomergaze' artists. Musicians like Trxy!, Glare ...

In April 2023, a Californian computer science student uploaded a moody alt.rock song called Your face to TikTok on a whim. Astonishingly, she woke up to 100,000 views the next morning. It was a moment ...

“Shoegaze” lives! Briefly in vogue in the U.K. during the early ’90s, shoegaze was a snarky, rock-critic brand for a generation of musicians who stared at their shoes onstage while enveloping gauzy ...