Category: shoegaze

September 18, 2012 / hugger / featured

An Introduction To Shoegaze

It has been a couple of decades since shoegaze was at its imperial best but…

September 15, 2012 / hugger / indie

Given that Fonda were founded in the mid-90’s it shouldn’t come as too much of…

July 31, 2012 / hugger / indie

Despite being forewarned that Austin’s She Sir were about to down their shoegaze tools for…

April 29, 2012 / hugger / indie

What with Reading getting promoted it’s probably apt that one of her most famous (sorta)…

April 19, 2012 / hugger / indie

This really is quite an extraordinary 7 minutes, especially the molten instrumental breakdown in the…

August 5, 2011 / hugger / indie

As I get older I’m finding out that you have to pack more and more…

July 26, 2011 / hugger / indie

I still maintain that Ride were impossibly beautiful. They may have spotted and converted ideas…

May 19, 2011 / hugger / shoegaze

It was inevitable that we’d fall for this song. Not just because shoegaze is a…

March 6, 2011 / hugger / shoegaze

Slowdive wrote about a half dozen songs that stop me in my tracks every time.…

February 4, 2011 / hugger / shoegaze

It appears that they’re still pulling the remastered trick, how old are CD’s at this…

February 1, 2011 / hugger / shoegaze

Curve were a strange one, on the face of it they took an exacting ride…

August 19, 2010 / hugger / shoegaze

If there was one band I could wrestle to the ground and not let go…