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• Alcest
  Alcest
  Alcest is a musical project born in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France. It began in 2000 with three members – Neige, Aegnor and Argoth. This band released a demo of black metal songs in 2001. Shortly after, Aegnor and Argoth left the band, leaving Neige as the sole member...
  
  
• Adorable
  Adorable (band)
  Adorable were a British alternative rock band. They formed in Coventry in 1991, and consisted of band members Piotr Fijalkowski , Robert Dillam , Stephen 'Wil' Williams and Kevin Gritton -History:...
  
  
• Air Formation
  Air Formation
  Air Formation were an English Shoegazing/Dream pop/Space rock band, that debuted with their first 7" in the summer of 1998 under the name "b.e.a.b Approved". In early 2000 they were forced to change their name, they chose Air Formation...
  
  
• Airiel
  Airiel
  Airiel is an American shoegaze band from Chicago, Illinois, characterized by their melodic take on the shoegaze style.-Biography:Airiel was formed as Airiel Project One in 1997, in Bloomington, Indiana, by Jeremy Wrenn and former bandmate Shawn Delaney. This followed the break-up of Wrenn's...
  
  
• Alcian Blue
  Alcian Blue
  Alcian Blue was a shoegaze and new wave influenced band operating out of the Washington DC suburb of Takoma Park from 1998 to 2006. The band initially consisted of Sam Chintha, Jake Reid, Clark Stacy and Matt Welch...
  
  
• Alison's Halo
  Alison's Halo
  Alison's Halo was a dream pop band from Tempe, Arizona. Their airy vocals and delayed riffs were often also associated with shoegazing or space pop. Their first single, "Dozen", was released in 1995. Their first CD, Eyedazzler, is a compilation of songs the band created between 1992 and 1996, was...
  
  
• Amusement Parks on Fire
  Amusement Parks on Fire
  Amusement Parks on Fire are a shoegaze band from Nottingham, England.The band was formed by Michael Feerick in 2004, who wrote and performed all the instruments for the self-titled debut album...
  
  
• Apollo Heights
  Apollo Heights
  Apollo Heights are an American shoegazer band that was formed in New York City in 2002. Consisting mainly of twin brothers, Daniel and Danny Chavis, they play experimental rock music. They cite AR Kane and My Bloody Valentine as a major inspiration...
  
  
• A Sunny Day In Glasgow
  A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  A Sunny Day in Glasgow are a band from Philadelphia, formed in 2006, undergoing many lineup changes since then, though always led by Ben Daniels.-Background:...
  
  
• Asobi Seksu
  Asobi Seksu
  Asobi Seksu is an American dream pop band based in New York City. Their music draws influence from the shoegazing genre as well, and similarly uses a textured and effects-heavy vocal and guitar sound...
  
  
• Astreal
  Astreal
  Astreal are an indie rock band, most often associated with the genres of post rock, shoegazing, and noise pop.The band formed in Singapore in 1996, although some date their origins to 1992 with their first incarnation as Breed. They are known for their incendiary live performances, as well as for...
  
  
• Astrobrite
  Astrobrite
  - Overview :Astrobrite is shoegazing/noise-pop supergroup project from the musician Scott Cortez . Astrobrite began in 1994 as a solo project and in 1995 the band expanded in order to tour. Astrobrite played their last show in 1997 and went on hiatus. In 2001, Astrobrite's first album 'Crush' was...
  
  
• Autolux
  Autolux
  Autolux is an avant-garde rock group consisting of Eugene Goreshter , Greg Edwards and Carla Azar...
  
  
• Autumn's Grey Solace
  Autumn's Grey Solace
  Autumn's Grey Solace is an ethereal wave and shoegaze band from St. Augustine, Florida. It consists of vocalist Erin Welton and multi-instrumentalist Scott Ferrell. They have released a total of six albums since 2002.-History:...
  
  

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• Bailter Space
  Bailter Space
  Bailter Space is an atmospheric noise rock band that formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space; they had previously recorded as The Gordons. Its members are Alister Parker , John Halvorsen , Brent McLachlan...
  
  
• Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons , John Gibbons , Isobel Sollenberger , Clint Takeda , Jason Kourkonis , and Aaron Igler...
  
  
• Belong
  Belong (band)
  Belong is an American experimental music duo composed of Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones. The group formed in New Orleans in 2002. Their debut album, October Language, was recorded in 2004 and released in 2006. The duo's sound blends ambient and glitch styles, with a focus on guitar textures...
  
  
• Bethany Curve
  Bethany Curve
  Bethany Curve is a shoegaze and alternative rock band from Santa Cruz, California.-Biography:Founding members Richard Millang, Ray Lake, Chris Preston and David Mac Wha formed the band in 1994. Ray Lake and Chris Preston saw a local street sign reading "Bethany Curve" and decided amongst themselves...
  
  
• The Big Sleep
  The Big Sleep (band)
  The Big Sleep are a three piece band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Sonya Balchandani , Danny Barria , and Gabe Rhodes...
  
  
• The Black Angels
  The Black Angels (band)
  - History :Formed in May 2004, the band's name derives from the Velvet Underground song "The Black Angel's Death Song".In 2005, the Black Angels were featured on a dual-disc compilation album of psychedelic music called Psychedelica Vol.1 from Northern Star Records...
  
  
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for their garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia sound. They are influenced by bands such as: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, T...
  
  
• The Black Ryder
  The Black Ryder
  The Black Ryder are an alternative band that originates from Sydney, Australia.Their debut album Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride was released on 6 November 2009 through The Anti-Machine Machine / EMI Music in Australia, and also through Mexican Summer Records on 21 September 2010.- History :The Black...
  
  
• The Black Watch
  The Black Watch (band)
  The Black Watch is an independent rock band from Santa Barbara, California whose only constant member has been singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter, John Andrew Fredrick. Through their twenty years in the recording industry, the group has affiliated with at least eight different record...
  
  
• Blind Mr. Jones
  Blind Mr. Jones
  Blind Mr. Jones were a British shoegazing band of the early 1990s, from Marlow, England.The original line-up was Richard Moore , James Franklin , Will Teversham , and Jon White...
  
  
• Blonde Redhead
  Blonde Redhead
  Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/rhythm guitarist Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace , which formed in New York City in 1993....
  
  
• Blue Foundation
  Blue Foundation
  -History:Blue Foundation started out in 2000 based on Tobias Wilner, aka Bichi's cooperation with various artists and musicians; his work with Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg and Bo Rande has been especially characteristic for the Blue Foundation sound. The music can be described as a mix of melodic...
  
  
• Blue Sky Black Death
  Blue Sky Black Death
  Blue Sky Black Death is a production duo based in Seattle, Washington. The duo consists of Kingston and Young God . They are known principally for their hip hop and instrumental music, made with a mix of live instrumentation and sampling...
  
  
• The Boo Radleys
  The Boo Radleys
  -Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:-External links:* * * * * * by Laurent Orseau * *...
  
  
• Bowery Electric
  Bowery Electric
  Bowery Electric was an American indie band formed in New York's East Village in 1992 by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener.-Music:Bowery Electric's music defies easy classification...
  
  
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American eclectic musical group led by Anton Newcombe, whose music spans multiple genres including psychedelia, electronica, folk music, blues, experimental music, and many others....
  
  
• Brightblack Morning Light
  Brightblack Morning Light
  Brightblack Morning Light was a band which formed in Northern California by Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes, both of whom originally hail from Alabama, Shineywater from Birmingham and Hughes from just outside of Montgomery. Shineywater plays electric slide guitar, and Hughes favors vintage...
  
  
• Butterfly Explosion
  Butterfly Explosion
  Butterfly Explosion are an alternative-rock band from Dublin, Ireland.-History:Butterfly Explosion was formed by guitarist/vocalist Gazz Carr in 2005.By 2007, the band had released two EPs while going through a number of line up changes....
  
  

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• Calla
  Calla (band)
  Calla is an indie rock band formed in North Texas in 1997. The band has been based in Brooklyn, New York for most of its existence. They have been on hiatus since 2007, after touring to support their album Strength In Numbers.-Band members:...
  
  
• Catherine Wheel
  Catherine Wheel
  Catherine Wheel were a four-piece alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth, England. The band was active from 1990 to 2000, experiencing fluctuating levels of commercial success, and embarking on many lengthy tours.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chapel Club
  Chapel Club
  Chapel Club are an English indie/alternative rock band from London. The band are currently signed to Loog/Universal .- Formation :Founder member and guitarist Michael Hibbert formed the first incarnation of Chapel Club in late 2007...
  
  
• Chapterhouse
  Chapterhouse
  For the religious buildings, see Chapter houseChapterhouse are a British shoegazing band originally of the early 1990s, from Reading, Berkshire, England. Formed in 1987 by Andrew Sherriff and Stephen Patman, the band began performing alongside Spacemen 3...
  
  
• Charlene
  Charlene (band)
  Charlene is an indie rock band that originated in Allston, Massachusetts in the latter half of the 1990s. The group has released three seven inch singles, an eponymous debut album and, most recently, a digital-only single...
  
  
• Coaltar of the Deepers
  Coaltar of the Deepers
  Coaltar of the Deepers are an Alternative rock band from Japan. They formed in May 1991. Although primarily influenced by shoegaze and post-rock sound, their sound incorporates musical elements as diverse as thrash metal, electronica, neo-acoustic, and bossa nova...
  
  
• Constants
  Constants (band)
  Constants is a post-rock / shoegaze band from Boston, Massachusetts.- Nostalgia For The Future:Constants was originally formed as a three piece in 2003, consisting of Will Benoit, Ben Fowlie, and Duncan Rich. Their first album "Nostalgia for the Future" was produced by Daryl Rabidoux with...
  
  
• Crystal Stilts
  Crystal Stilts
  -History:Crystal Stilts was formed in 2003 by Brad Hargett and JB Townsend. After releasing one single and an EP, the pair expanded to five members before signing to Slumberland Records in the US and Angular Recording Corporation in Europe and releasing their debut, Alight of Night, in 2008...
  
  
• The Curtain Society
  The Curtain Society
  The Curtain Society is a band which formed in Southbridge, MA in 1988, and consists of singer/guitarist Roger Lavallee, Ron Mominee and Duncan Arsenault. Their stylistic influences include pop, shoegazing, Dream pop and alternative rock & roll....
  
  
• Curve
  Curve (band)
  Curve was an English music group formed in 1990 chiefly around the collaboration of singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and bassist/guitarist/programmer Dean Garcia.-History:...
  
  

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• Darker My Love
  Darker My Love
  Darker My Love is an indie psychedelic rock band based in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of 5 members. Tim Presley, a former member of the band The Nerve Agents and also a visual artist responsible for much of the band's imagery, formed the band in 2004 and contributes vocals and guitar...
  
  
• The Depreciation Guild
  The Depreciation Guild
  The Depreciation Guild was an American shoegaze band from Brooklyn, New York. The group was formed in 2005 by Kurt Feldman and Adrian Hashizume...
  
  
• Destroyalldreamers
  Destroyalldreamers
  Destroyalldreamers was a four-piece instrumental shoegaze band based in Montreal, Canada consisting of guitarists Eric Quach and Mathieu Grisé, drummer Shaun Doré and former bassist Michèle Martin. Their sound has often been described as a mix of classic '90's shoegazing with Godspeed You! Black...
  
  
• Lisa Dewey
  Lisa Dewey
  Lisa Dewey is an American shoegaze, alternative rock and dream pop singer-songwriter and musician.Dewey is best known for her unique musical style and her personal lyrics...
  
  
• Drop Nineteens
  Drop Nineteens
  Drop Nineteens were a Boston-based indie rock band active from 1991 to 1995. They were one of a few U.S.-based bands who styled themselves on England's distinctive shoegazing sound, taking their inspiration from bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Th' Faith Healers, and Bleach...
  
  

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• E For Explosion
  E For Explosion
  E for Explosion is an alternative rock/shoegazing band formed by former JamisonParker singer Jamison Covington after the group's breakup in 2005.-History:...
  
  
• Echo Orbiter
  Echo Orbiter
  Echo Orbiter is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, based indie rock band founded by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by Philadelphia Weekly as being "Widely considered two of the most inventive songwriters on the [Philadelphia] scene."...
  
  
• Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
• Eluvium
• Engineers
  Engineers (band)
  Engineers are a British shoegazing/dream pop band. The band was formed in London in 2003 by singer/guitarist Simon Phipps, bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Mark Peters, bassist/guitarist Dan MacBean, and drummer Andrew Sweeney...
  
  
• The Eraserheads
  The Eraserheads
  Eraserheads, or E-Heads was a Filipino rock band of the 90s, formed by Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro. The band is one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, and significant bands in the history of OPM...
  
  
• Eskimohunter
  Eskimohunter
  Eskimohunter is a pop-shoegaze band started in Los Angeles by Jason71 in 2002 after his departure from his former band The Lassie Foundation.-External links:* – Eskimohunter's Official Website* – Eskimohunter's MySpace Page...
  
  
• Ester Drang
  Ester Drang
  Ester Drang is an experimental, post rock musical group from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The band was formed in 1995, with guitarist Bryce Chambers recruiting drummer James McAlister and bass player Kyle Winner....
  
  

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• Failure
  Failure (band)
  Failure was an American rock band that was active from 1990 to 1997, during which they recorded and released three critically acclaimed albums...
  
  
• Faunts
  Faunts
  -History:Faunts was formed in the fall of 2000 by two brothers Steve and Tim Batke. Faunts are released on Friendly Fire Recordings. In 2005, their debut album High Expectations/Low Results was well-received. In 2006, a 40-minute EP entitled M4 was released that grew out of music crafted to...
  
  
• Film School
  Film School (band)
  Film School is a five-piece indie rock band from San Francisco, California.-History:The band was formed in the late-1990s by lead singer Greg Bertens [aka Krayg Burton]. Initially the band only consisted of Bertens working with members of Fuck and Pavement when they released their debut album...
  
  
• Flying Saucer Attack
  Flying Saucer Attack
  Flying Saucer Attack was an experimental space rock band that formed in Bristol, England in 1992. David Pearce was the core member of the group, and Rachel Brook was a member for most of the band's lifetime....
  
  
• Fold Zandura
  Fold Zandura
  Fold Zandura is an alternative rock band from California. They released four albums between 1995 and 1999 plus one white 7" vinyl. Each album was released under a different label. The two premier members also founded the industrial band Mortal. Their songs are "love songs and praise songs"...
  
  
• For Against
  For Against
  For Against are a United States post-punk/proto-shoegaze rock band from Lincoln, Nebraska. Despite numerous lineup shuffles and some periods of dormancy, the band has produced material steadily from its 1984 inception to the present.-History:...
  
  
• Adam Franklin
  Adam Franklin
  Adam Franklin is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who has played in Swervedriver , Shake Appeal , Toshack Highway and currently releases records as Adam Franklin and tours with live band Bolts of Melody...
  
  

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• Hammock
  Hammock (band)
  Hammock is an American two-member post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. With music created in between production and songwriting projects over the course of two years, Hammock combines live instrumentation, electronic beats, and droning guitar into atmospheric music similar in style to the work...
  
  
• The High Violets
  The High Violets
  -History:The High Violets were formed in late 1998 after the breakup of Portland band The Bella Low by former members Clint Sargent, Luke Strahota and Violet Bianca Grace. This lineup was short-lived however as Grace left after a few gigs. Sargent and Strahota then joined forces with Allen Davis...
  
  
• Hinterland
  Hinterland (band)
  Hinterland is a band from Vancouver, Canada. Hinterland's music is best described as dreampop/shoegaze/New Wave with soaring, ethereal vocals, and is currently released by Submerged Records. Hinterland's second album The Picture Plane spent three months in the Canadian college radio top 50...
  
  
• Hot Zex
  Hot Zex
  Hot Zex is a shoegaze band from Novosibirsk, Russia. Their first recordings are from 1995 and they are still actively creating music. The band consists of Vladimir Komarov on vocals and guitar, Anton Zenkov playing bass and Konstantin Nikonov on drums. Komarov is the leader and songwriter of Hot Zex...
  
  
• Hooray For Earth
  Hooray For Earth
  Hooray For Earth is a New York City-based rock band built around the home-recordings of singer and multi-instrumentalist Noel Heroux. The group first emerged publicly as Hooray For Earth in late 2005 in Boston, MA. The original lineup stood as Heroux, bassist Christopher Principe, guitarist Gary...
  
  

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• Lanterna
  Lanterna
  Lanterna is a musical project led by guitarist Henry Frayne, formerly of Ack-Ack, Area and The Moon Seven Times. Their tracks are evocative soundscapes, usually instrumental, that focus on Frayne's melodic guitar work awash in effects.-History:...
  
  
• Lenola
  Lenola (band)
  Lenola was an indie rock noise-pop group formed in New Jersey in 1994, originally envisioned as a four-track project by lead man Jay Laughlin, but with the addition of guitarist David Grubb and drummer Sean Byrne, eventually became a standard band...
  
  
• Les Discrets
  Les Discrets
  Les Discrets is a French post-metal band/musical project that was formed in 2003 by Fursy Teyssier as "a platform gathering music and art." The band embraces a musical style similar to that of fellow French acts like Alcest and Amesoeurs and released their first full-length album in...
  
  
• Letting Up Despite Great Faults
  Letting Up Despite Great Faults
  Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an Indie/electronic music act founded by Los Angeles native Michael Lee. Pitchfork has dubbed them "shoegaze-y indie pop." Rolling Stone and Canada's Exclaim! have compared them to Postal Service, while the consensus in the blogosphere has been more M83 and The...
  
  
• The Life and Times
  The Life and Times
  The Life and Times is an independent American alternative and space rock band active in the 2000s.-History:Since August 2005, The Life and Times has played over 200 shows in support of their debut full-length release Suburban Hymns on US tours with bands like the The Appleseed Cast, Murder by...
  
  
• Lilys
  Lilys
  Lilys are an American indie rock band formed in Washington, D.C in 1988. The only constant member is Kurt Heasley, with the line-up changing regularly...
  
  
• Longview
• Longwave
  Longwave (band)
  Longwave is an American indie rock band. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Steve Schiltz, guitarist Shannon Ferguson, bassist Dave Marchese and drummer Jeremy Greene.-History:...
  
  
• Lotus Plaza
  Lotus Plaza
  Lotus Plaza is the solo project of American musician Lockett Pundt, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of Atlanta-based ambient group Deerhunter. Pundt joined Deerhunter in 2005 as a guitarist. He is also the best friend of Deerhunter vocalist Bradford Cox. His debut album as Lotus Plaza, The...
  
  
• Love Spirals Downwards
  Love Spirals Downwards
  Love Spirals Downwards was an ethereal darkwave, dream pop, Atmospheric drum'n'bass and electronica recording act from California.-History:Love Spirals Downwards was begun by multi-instrumentalist Ryan Lum and then-girlfriend Suzanne Perry. In 1991, Lum and Perry recorded a demo, which led to a...
  
  
• Lovesliescrushing
  Lovesliescrushing
  Lovesliescrushing is a dream pop, lo-fi, ambient, noise band, that formed in the fall of 1991 in East Lansing, Michigan and later moved to Tucson, Arizona. The two primary members of the band are Scott Cortez and Melissa Arpin-Duimstra...
  
  
• Luminous Orange
  Luminous Orange
  Luminous Orange is a Japanese guitar rock band often categorized as Alternative, Dreampop, and Shoegaze, and from the fact that they had released some of their materials from Cornelius' label "Trattoria", often considered as one of the Shibuya-kei artists....
  
  
• Lupine Howl
  Lupine Howl
  Lupine Howl were a rock band formed in Bristol, England in 1999, by Sean Cook , Mike Mooney and Damon Reece . The three had been dismissed from their respective roles in Spiritualized by that band's frontman, Jason Pierce.The first single "Vaporizer" came out in 2000 on their own Vinyl Hiss...
  
  
• Lush
  Lush (band)
  Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...
  
  

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• M83
  M83 (band)
  M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...
  
  
• Mahogany
• Majesty Crush
  Majesty crush
  Majesty Crush was one of the few American rock groups which belonged to the shoegazer genre popularized in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  
  
• Maps
  Maps (band)
  -Start Something:In 2006, he recorded his Start Something EP by himself on his 16-track recorder. He released it on his own record label, Last Space Recordings, and it was met with some critical acclaim. The single "Lost My Soul" polled at No. 26 in NMEs top 50 singles of 2006.-We Can Create:On 19...
  
  
• Marjorie Fair
  Marjorie Fair
  Marjorie Fair is an indie rock/shoegaze American band formed in New Jersey by musician Evan Slamka, and based in Los Angeles, California. Their sound is somewhat reminiscent of The Doves or The Beatles, however, with a more psychedelic rock sound...
  
  
• Mazinga Phaser
  Mazinga Phaser
  Mazinga Phaser was a psychedelic Space Rock group from Denton, Texas active during the latter half of the 1990s. The band's founder, Mwanza "Wanz" Dover also formed The Falcon Project before forming a new line-up of the band as Mazinga Phaser II....
  
  
• Cass McCombs
  Cass McCombs
  Cass McCombs is an American songwriter and performer. Called "unobtrusively brilliant" by John Peel, he has received widespread critical acclaim for his five LPs and one EP.- History :Cass McCombs was born in Concord, California...
  
  
• Mean Red Spiders
  Mean Red Spiders
  Mean Red Spiders are a Canadian alternative rock band formed in Toronto, Canada in September 1993. Mean Red Spiders' music is largely guitar-based indie rock influenced by psychedelic music. Their music makes extensive use of distortion, digital keyboard loops, recorded voice samples, and effects...
  
  
• Medicine
  Medicine (band)
  Medicine is an alternative noise-pop/rock band from the San Fernando Valley, United States. They were formed in 1991 by guitarist Brad Laner and signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings label the following year...
  
  
• Mercy Arms
  Mercy Arms
  Mercy Arms were a band from Sydney, Australia. They were together 2005-2009, in which time they released 1 Ep and 1 Lp in Australia.-History:...
  
  
• Mew
  Mew (band)
  Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006...
  
  
• Mira
  Mira (band)
  Mira are a five-piece dream pop/shoegaze band from Tallahassee, Florida. One of their earliest gigs was opening for Low at Florida State University. After releasing several EPs , the band signed to Projekt Records, on which they have released three full-length albums and toured nationally in the...
  
  
• Moose
  Moose (band)
  Moose were a British indie rock band who formed in London in 1990. The original line-up included Russell Yates , K.J. “Moose” McKillop , Damien Warburton , and Jeremy Tishler . After Warburton and Tishler left the band they were replaced with Lincoln Fong , his brother Russell , and Richard Thomas...
  
  
• Yasemin Mori
  Yasemin Mori
  -Biography:Although her original last name was Savgı, she chooses to go by the scene alias Mori, which means girl in various ethnic Balkan Turkic languages, and which was a name she was called by many of her friends as a young girl. She composed her first song when she was a teenager. Her first...
  
  
• Motorhome
  Motorhome (band)
  Motorhome was formed in the early 1990s by Josiah Mazzaschi after he moved from Boston to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Josiah met Kristen Thiele at art school. They were joined by Laura Masura on drums...
  
  
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• My Vitriol
  My Vitriol
  My Vitriol are an alternative rock band from London, England. The band name, which is often misinterpreted, is taken from the novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene...
  
  
• Mystery Machine
  Mystery Machine (band)
  Mystery Machine are a Canadian alternative rock band, mainly active in the 1990s. Based in Vancouver, the core of the band consisted of Jordan Pratt, Luke Rogalsky, Bean and Shane Ward....
  
  

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• Pacific UV
  Pacific UV
  Pacific UV is an indie-rock band currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Their style is frequently categorized as utilizing elements of Dream pop, Post Rock, Shoegaze, and Space Rock. They are currently signed to WARM Records and are distributed by Touch and Go Records.-History:The band was...
  
  
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie pop band from New York City. Their first album was a self-released EP which came out in 2007 through the Painbow label. Their debut self-titled full length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records. The band name comes from an...
  
  
• Pale Saints
  Pale Saints
  Pale Saints was formed in 1987 by Ian Masters , Graeme Naysmith , and Chris Cooper in Leeds, England. The group began as a jangly indie pop band, influenced by Primal Scream's early sound.-History:...
  
  
• Piano Magic
  Piano Magic
  Piano Magic is a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Their sound has been described as ambient pop, post-rock, indietronica, coldwave, dark wave and ghostrock...
  
  
• A Place to Bury Strangers
  A Place to Bury Strangers
  A Place to Bury Strangers are a New York–based noise rock band composed of Oliver Ackermann , Dion Lunadon and Jay Space . The band plays a heavy, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and space rock...
  
  
• Plastic Tree
  Plastic Tree
  Plastic Tree is a Japanese rock band which formed in December 1993 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. They released their first mini-album in December 1995, and in 1997, they debuted by releasing their first single on a major label.-Biography:...
  
  
• Polydream
  Polydream
  Polydream is an alternative rock band hailing from Madison, Wisconsin. Formed in 2003, the band has released an EP, titled A Rigid Shard of Balance: 1, and released its first full-length album, titled Send Me to the Sun, on December 15, 2007...
  
  
• Popface
  Popface
  Popface is an indie rock/pop band formed in Stavanger, Norway. Their debut album, named "Buck", was released in 1995, followed by "Almost Endless" in 1998 and "Michele, I Love You" in 2002...
  
  
• Populous
  Populous
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• Prism
  Prism (band)
  Prism is a Canadian rock band originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They were active from 1977 to 1984 and are active again from 1988 to present. The band's sound is a mix of Album-Oriented Rock and pop rock. They have released a total of 13 albums to date...
  
  

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• The Radio Dept.
  The Radio Dept.
  The Radio Dept. is a dream pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records.-History:The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called "Radioavdelningen"...
  
  
• The Raveonettes
  The Raveonettes
  The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments, and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals...
  
  
• Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles post-rock band comprising current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair and Pleasure Forever. Their sound is characteristic of soundscape-influenced experimental rock, with an otherwise uncommon extensive use of a pedal steel guitar.-History:Red Sparowes...
  
  
• Redding
  Redding (band)
  Redding is an American indie rock band from Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Heavily influenced by British bands like Coldplay, Elbow, Travis, and Radiohead, Redding take their name from the character of Ellis Redding in one of the band’s favorite films, The Shawshank Redemption.The...
  
  
• Revolver
  Revolver (band)
  Revolver were a London based guitar band in existence from 1990–1994, comprising Mat Flint , Hamish Brown and Nick Dewey...
  
  
• Ride
  Ride (band)
  Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
  
  
• Ringo Deathstarr
  Ringo Deathstarr
  Ringo Deathstarr is a shoegaze band from Austin, Texas, which channels such diverse influences as Fugazi, The Cure, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, and The Velvet Underground into their own unique sonic fingerprint....
  
  
• Rose Chronicles
  Rose Chronicles
  Rose Chronicles was a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band, from Vancouver, consisted of vocalist Kristy Thirsk, guitarist Richard Maranda, bassist Judd Cochrane and drummer Steve van der Woerd.-Career:...
  
  
• The Rosemarys
  The Rosemarys
  The Rosemarys were an early-mid 1990s band from San Francisco. Their sound was associated with the dreampop-shoegazing style of music.The band released two albums - their debut Providence and a second, self-titled release - before falling out with their record label and eventually splitting up.The...
  
  

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• Saxon Shore
  Saxon Shore (band)
  Saxon Shore is an American post-rock band consisting of members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York. The group has thus far released five albums: one packaged as an EP and four as full-lengths...
  
  
• Sans Arc
  Sans Arc
  The Sans Arc, or Itázipčho in Lakota, are a subdivision of the Lakota people. Sans Arc is the French translation of the Lakota name which means, "Without bows." The translator of Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer renders the name as Arrows all Gone...
  
  
• Scarling.
  Scarling.
  Scarling. is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, whose core members are Jessicka and Christian Hejnal-Addams. The band formed in 2002. They have released two albums, Sweet Heart Dealer and So Long, Scarecrow.-Name:...
  
  
• Ulrich Schnauss
  Ulrich Schnauss
  -Biography:Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse, and early bleep & breakbeat tracks...
  
  
• School of Seven Bells
  School of Seven Bells
  School of Seven Bells is a band formed by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, together with identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, formerly of On!Air!Library!. The band is named after the School of the Seven Bells, a mythical South American pickpocket training academy.-History:Curtis and...
  
  
• Seefeel
  Seefeel
  Seefeel are a British electronic/post-rock band formed in the early 1990s. They are currently signed to Warp Records.-Biography:Seefeel formed during 1992 in London, England; with Mark Clifford on guitar, Mark Van Hoen on bass, Justin Fletcher on drums and Sarah Peacock on vocals and guitar. During...
  
  
• Sennen
  Sennen (band)
  Sennen are a shoegazing band from Norwich, UK. They currently release records on the Hungry Audio label in the UK. They have also appeared on compilations on the Club AC30 and NROne record labels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Serena-Maneesh
  Serena-Maneesh
  Serena-Maneesh is an alternative rock band from Oslo, Norway.- Significance of the Name:...
  
  
• A Shoreline Dream
  A Shoreline Dream
  A Shoreline Dream is a rock band from Denver, Colorado whose sound has been described as being “a moody blend of psych ... and post-rock," as sounding "like a band out of time," and possessing a sound quality unique enough that it "outruns" the shoegaze moniker which bands of this kind are often...
  
  
• SIANspheric
  Sianspheric
  SIANspheric , is a shoegaze/dream pop-oriented rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They formed in 1994, and signed with the then-fledgling record label Sonic Unyon. The following year, Somnium, their debut album, was released...
  
  
• The Sight Below
  The Sight Below
  The Sight Below is an electronic music/shoegaze act from Seattle, Washington. Its main member is American post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri....
  
  
• Silversun Pickups
  Silversun Pickups
  Silversun Pickups is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. The band comprises Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, and Joe Lester....
  
  
• Singapore Sling
  Singapore Sling (band)
  Singapore Sling is an indie band from Reykjavík, Iceland.As of 2011 they have released five albums and a best of compilation. Singapore Sling have supported The Brian Jonestown Massacre on their North American tours and covered Dirty Water a 1966 garage rock hit by The Standells in their debut album...
  
  
• Slowdive
  Slowdive
  Slowdive were an English shoegaze band that formed in 1989. The band formed in Reading, Berkshire and primarily consisted of Nick Chaplin , Rachel Goswell , Neil Halstead , and Christian Savill...
  
  
• Smashing Orange
  Smashing Orange
  Smashing Orange was an American band formed in 1990. They released three albums before splitting up in the mid-1990s. Their early sound saw them classified as "shoegazing".-History:...
  
  
• The Softies
  The Softies
  The Softies were a musical duo consisting of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, whose genre was love songs using only their two voices and electric guitars....
  
  
• Soundpool
  Soundpool
  Soundpool is a New York City-based 5-piece shoegaze band, noted for its unusual blend of shoegaze and disco.-Discography:*On High *Dichotomies & Dreamland *Mirrors In Your Eyes...
  
  
• SPC ECO
  SPC ECO
  SPC ECO are a British-American shoegazing band, formed in 2007. The band consists of former Curve member Dean Garcia , Rose Berlin and Joey Levenson . When performing live, the band consists of Garcia on bass, Berlin on vocals, HKG on guitar, Debbie Smith on guitar and Monti on drums...
  
  
• Spindrift
  Spindrift (band)
  Spindrift is a psychedelic rock band created by singer-songwriter-composer-producer-actor Kirpatrick Thomas, who was born in Delaware as one of 5 kids. Founded in 1992, the band originated in Newark, Delaware along with such other local bands of the period including Jake and the Stiffs, The Verge,...
  
  
• Spirea X
  Spirea X
  Spirea X were an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed by Primal Scream founding member Jim Beattie in 1990.-History:After six years in the band, Jim Beattie left Primal Scream in 1988...
  
  
• Spitfire
  Spitfire (UK band)
  Spitfire are a British band from Crawley, West Sussex, England whose ever-changing line up revolved around brothers Nick and Jeff Pitcher. Other members included Steve White, Justin Welch, Steven Walker , Matt Wise and Scott Kenny.Two early EPs on Eve Recordings saw the band linked to the...
  
  
• Stafrænn Hákon
  Stafrænn Hákon
  Stafrænn Hákon is the stage name used by Icelandic musician Ólafur Josephsson. Ólafur has been making music at his home studio since 1999. Stafrænn has self released 3 albums in Iceland. Later 2 of the albums were re-released on Resonant in the UK and the debut on Secret Eye in the U.S. ...
  
  
• Starflyer 59
  Starflyer 59
  Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric. While Jason Martin has written nearly all of Starflyer 59's songs, the band has included a number of different musicians over the years, including...
  
  
• Stray Ghost
  Stray Ghost
  Stray Ghost is the artist name of the English composer and sound artist, Anthony Saggers. He has released music through the record labels, Hidden Shoal, Highpoint Lowlife, Dead Pilot and Phantom Channel.-Release history:...
  
  
• Submarine
  Submarine (band)
  The early-mid-1990s English band Submarine followed in the footsteps of many of its contemporaries, including The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Boo Radleys and My Bloody Valentine with its own vision of noise pop, before morphing into Jetboy DC, which continues sporadically to this...
  
  
• Sun Dial
  Sun Dial
  Sun Dial is a British space rock band formed in 1990 by Gary Ramon.-History:The precursor to Sun Dial was Ramon's the Modern Art, formed in the mid-'80s with a loose lineup that never played gigs but did see the release of two studio albums...
  
  
• The Sunshine Factory
  The Sunshine Factory
  The Sunshine Factory is a three-member shoegaze/alternative/psychedelic rock band from Mobile, Alabama consisting of Ian Taylor and , Sally Robertson . The group has three albums to their credit: Vintage Revolution ; Sugar ; and Sugar Live...
  
  
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  A Sunny Day in Glasgow are a band from Philadelphia, formed in 2006, undergoing many lineup changes since then, though always led by Ben Daniels.-Background:...
  
  
• Sweet Trip
  Sweet Trip
  Sweet Trip is an experimental ambient pop/shoegaze act from San Francisco, California.- Background :The group was formed in 1998, and its mastermind is producer and songwriter, Roberto Burgos...
  
  
• Swervedriver
  Swervedriver
  Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band went on hiatus in 1998 before reforming in 2008 for a world tour, which included a performance at the high-profile Coachella Festival...
  
  
• Swirl
  Swirl (band)
  Swirl were a Sydney, Australia-based indie rock band, forming around 1990 and breaking up in 2002. They released three albums and a number of EP's, mostly through independent Sydney label Half A Cow.-History:...
  
  
• Swirlies
  Swirlies
  Swirlies is an shoegaze band from Boston that formed in 1990. They have often been compared to My Bloody Valentine.-Formation and early career:...
  
  

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• Tamaryn
  Tamaryn
  Tamaryn is a vocalist born in New Zealand and now living in San Francisco. Her main collaborator and producer is Rex John Shelverton . In 2009, they released a debut EP as well as several 7"s...
  
  
• Matthew Taylor
  Matthew Taylor (musician)
  Matthew Taylor is a musician and artist.Taylor was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he studied music composition and improvisation under John Corbett. He is a founding member of the indie rock band Bellini and math rock band the Romulans...
  
  
• Team Sleep
  Team Sleep
  Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno, better known for fronting the Sacramento-based band Deftones....
  
  
• Tears Run Rings
  Tears Run Rings
  Tears Run Rings is an American dream pop band consisting of singer/bassist Laura Watling, singer/guitarist Matthew Bice, guitarist Ed Mazzucco, guitarist Tim Morris, and drummer Dwayne Palasek.-History:...
  
  
• The Telescopes
  The Telescopes
  The Telescopes were formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie and could best be described as a noise/space rock band - the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 being influences and contemporaries.-History:...
  
  
• Thee Heavenly Music Association
  Thee Heavenly Music Association
  Thee Heavenly Music Association is the 2001 musical endeavour of Helen Storer and Dave Hillis.-Biography:Thee Heavenly Music Association was formed after Storer, relocated to Los Angeles and hooked up with Jack Off Jill for their final show...
  
  
• This Will Destroy You
  This Will Destroy You
  This Will Destroy You, often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2005. The band consists of guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bass player and keyboardist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore...
  
  
• Trespassers William
  Trespassers William
  Trespassers William are an indie rock/dream pop band known for their ethereal music. Hailing from Southern California, they work and live in the Sodo/Capitol Hill area of Seattle, Washington. Their latest release is the 2009 EP, The Natural Order of Things. They are currently working on their...
  
  
• The Twilight Sad
  The Twilight Sad
  The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland, comprising James Graham , Andy MacFarlane and Mark Devine . The band are currently signed to Fat Cat Records and have released two full-length albums, as well as several EPs and singles...
  
  
• Twin Tigers
  Twin Tigers
  Twin Tigers is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia formed in 2007 by Matthew Rain and Aimee Morris.-Formation and early work:Twin Tigers was formed in Fall 2007 by Matthew Rain and Aimee Morris. They were both co-workers at the Grit restaurant owned by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and were dating...
  
  
• Tripwires
  Tripwires
  Tripwires are a band from Reading, UK.- Biography :Tripwires are a band from Reading, UK, the band formed in 2007 and have regularly been performing around the country since...
  
  

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• Van She
  Van She
  Van She is an electropop band formed in 2005 in Sydney, Australia, with Matt Van Schie on bass guitar/vocals, Tomek Archer on drums/sequencer, Michael Di Francesco on synth/guitar and Nicholas Routledge on vocals/guitar...
  
  
• Velour 100
  Velour 100
  Velour 100 was a dream pop / ethereal rock band from Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. The band existed from 1995 to 2000, with most of its music seeing release via Tooth & Nail Records in 1996 & 1997. The band was essentially masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Trey Many of His Name Is Alive and...
  
  
• The Velvet Teen
  The Velvet Teen
  -History:The Velvet Teen was founded by Judah Nagler and Logan Whitehurst as a side project from their other bands, Tin Circus and Little Tin Frog. Judah and Logan recorded the EP Comasynthesis, which had a prominent electronic sound, in 2000...
  
  
• The Verve
  The Verve
  The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboardist Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space...
  
  
• The Very Hush Hush
  The Very Hush Hush
  -History:The Very Hush Hush formed in 1998 in Golden, Colorado. The band's original lineup consisted of drums and synthesizers. In 2003, TVHH added drummer Symons for work on a first set of studio songs.Symons left the band after the release of a self-titled EP...
  
  
• Violet Indiana
  Robin Guthrie
  Robin Guthrie is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing...
  
  

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• Warpaint
  Warpaint
  Warpaint is a mascot pinto horse for the Kansas City Chiefs National Football League team, currently in its third incarnation. The gelding is most famously associated with the Chiefs' glory days at Municipal Stadium when the team won two American Football League Championships, and the horse led the...
  
  
• Weep
  Weep (band)
  Weep is an American rock band from New York City whose music combines elements of Ethereal Wave, gothic rock, shoegazing, post-punk, and synthpop...
  
  
• Whipped Cream
  Whipped Cream (band)
  Whipped Cream were a rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1989.-History:Whipped Cream formed in 1989 with an initial line-up of Elisabeth Punzi , Jörgen Cremonese , Jonas Sonesson , and Lars Erik Grimelund...
  
  
• Wild Nothing
  Wild Nothing
  -History:Jack Tatum previously played in bands Jack and the Whale and Facepaint in the college town of Blacksburg, VA. He began recording under the name Wild Nothing in the summer of 2009...
  
  
• Steven Wilson
  Steven Wilson
  Steven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...
  
  
• Windy & Carl
  Windy & Carl
  -Overview:Cited as "A leading light of the Michigan space-rock scene" by Allmusic, the minimalist group formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber...