Not exactly certain this belongs in Indie Rock, but it didn't seem to fit anywhere else.

Anybody here listen to shoegazing music? Sigur Ros, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Auburn Lull, etc?

Any 'newcomer' bands you might suggest?

I think this fits well here, although it could also go into Alternative.

While I'm not sure what I think of the terminology of shoegaze/spacerock (I'm really not sure which bands fit and which don't), I'm partial to Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Chapterhouse, and Ride.

There's a new Slowdive best-of out in the UK that I'd like to pick up.

On the new band tip, I could recommend a few:

The Stratford 4
Ambulance LTD
Lovedrug

I'll second the recommendation on Ambulance LTD. As we reach the end of the year and I wrestle with my list of faves, LP is right on the cusp.

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Yeah, spacerock/shoegaze is sort of just the catchall term I use. I can't really say it's the end all be all of accurate terminology. But it works well enough for me.

Oooh... the Slowdive Best Of. I need to look into that!

Actually, I listen to Chapterhouse on occassion, and I've heard Spiritualized before. I have to throw Lush and the Boo Radleys out there as another good listen.

I'll check out the Ambulance LTD, thanks!

check out circleaquare-pre earthquake anthem.

The only thing bad about this album is the title.Especially if u like shoegazer stuff...and the likes of whom u named before.

Good album for sure.

Another band that occured to me (and I, too, am not positive they fit) is Her Space Holiday. The track "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" from the album Young Machines was in the rotation on WOXY earlier this year and never failed to catch my attention, but I've never tracked a copy down.

Anybody else heard it/them?

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You know... for those of us with CD burners, we can make samples for the others to see if we like the songs/music everybody keeps mentioning.

Just a thought. Not sure how the copyright protection laws would apply, though. Same idea was suggested on the Blisscent yahoo group, so I suppose it can be done.

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Originally posted by LinnTate:
Another band that occured to me (and I, too, am not positive they fit) is Her Space Holiday. The track "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" from the album _Young Machines_ was in the rotation on WOXY earlier this year and never failed to catch my attention, but I've never tracked a copy down.

Anybody else heard it/them?

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Oh yes i have evertything Her Space Holiday has done.MarkBiamchi could be shufled into this category..but he tends to lean toward nice clean electronic music.Especially...the young machines and manic expressive.

He is a classiclay trained artist..i am not quite sure in what instrument right now...but you can hear the professionalism in his recordings and his arrangements.

Listen to any of his albums and u will know why almost always his writing is called "heartbreaking".Mark is easily one of my favorite artists and it slipped my mind to not mention him here.Good call LT!

"Tech Romance" is a great song, although I never considered them shoegaze.

Heh, Crash, at first glance I thought your post belonged in the last-gen video game forum (Tech Romancer, for Dreamcast).

What's the song like?

I mentioned Her Space Holiday in reference to Space Rock, a genre I only heard about for the first time when I went looking for more information about Her Space Holiday.

Yes, I am L7.

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Originally posted by LinnTate:
Another band that occured to me (and I, too, am not positive they fit) is Her Space Holiday. The track "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" from the album _Young Machines_ was in the rotation on WOXY earlier this year and never failed to catch my attention, but I've never tracked a copy down.

Anybody else heard it/them?

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HSH opened for a chunk of Bob Mould's solo tour in 2001. I worked Bob's merch table at the St. Louis show and got to meet/sell merch/hang with Mark and his girlfriend/bandmate. His show was interesting, a mix of prerecorded tracks and live instrumentation. I could hear it but not see it from my merch booth. Mark was a really nice guy and threw me copies of all of his releases up to that point, but i've never really gotten into them for some reason. I'll have to try again.

This was, interestingly enough, Bob Mould's more electronic tour as well...he used prerecorded tracks as backing and augmented the tracks with videos and artsy movies. A good show, although not what I look for from Bob. But he, too, is a helluva nice guy, as was his manager, Kevin.

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Well, LT (and pE), you and I seem to be using L7 mucho lately, but although I read it in some Metacritic reviews, I can't for the life of me find anything "shoegaze" about Ambulance Ltd. (half of one song don't count!) I definitely enjoy them, but unless Velvet Underground qualifies as shoegaze, I just don't get it!!!

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Well, LT (and pE), you and I seem to be using L7 mucho lately, but although I read it in some Metacritic reviews, I can't for the life of me find anything "shoegaze" about Ambulance Ltd. (half of one song don't count!) I definitely enjoy them, but unless Velvet Underground qualifies as shoegaze, I just don't get it!!!

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I hear more of it as an influence rather than the actual sound of the group, although the wall of guitars in "Yoga Means Union" is certainly shoegazer material, as are the ones behind "Heavy Lifting." On the whole, I would compare it more with the poppier version of Ride circa Black Night Crash rather than the more ethereal Ride of Nowhere

I certainly hear a lot of other influences just as much in the Ambulance record, including the Beatles. Oddly enough, I hear a little of Cake in "Primitive (The Way I Treat You)".

Another artist that dabbles in shoegazer tendencies but lays just as much Britpop down are the Doves, who add some atmosphere to fairly standard pop song structures.

Another borderline case:

The Brian Jonestown Massacre, subject of a cool recent indie documentary (DIG!) and a cool 2-cd retrospective (Tepid Peppermint Wonderland).

There are some shoegazer moments in the BJM repertoire, but also some Stones-y ones, among other obvious influences.

A nice new shoegazing band are Engineers. Check out their excellent debut mini LP 'Folly'. Also Radio Dept's 'Lesser Matters'. Like MBV, gorgeous melodies wrapped up in layers of noise.

Not a new shoegazer band, but cruely underappreciated: the catherine wheel. Either Chrome or Ferment are your best bets. Adam and Eve is also good, and I like Wishville, but many don't. Allmusic discography

I was a pretty big shoegaze fan for a while. In my opinion the greats of the genre are My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive though, Swervedriver, Pale Saints and Chapterhouse are good too. Space rock is harder to define, its one of those terms that has no real definition for the most part but there are some bands who simply must be described using the term, such as Hawkwind.

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Not a new shoegazer band, but cruely underappreciated: the catherine wheel. Either Chrome or Ferment are your best bets. Adam and Eve is also good, and I like Wishville, but many don't. [QUOTE]

Wishville was very disappointing. Adam & Eve is great. In my top 10 for 90's . But Ferment is close second. Saw them in mid-90's and their live version of PF's Wish You WEre Here was 12 minutes of bliss. I still haven't found a live version... so if anyone knows anything....