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Shoegazer Sunday: The Radio Dept.’s “The New Improved Hypocrisy”

Sunday, July 7th, 2019

A little more dreampop that Shoegaze, “The New Improved Hypocrisy” is a nicely pleasant piece:

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Shoegazer Sunday: The Soft Cavalry’s “Dive”

Sunday, April 28th, 2019

Another Rachel Goswell side project. Really more Shoegaze tinged retro ambient lounge, maybe somewhere between Malory and Echodrone at their softest.

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Shoegazer Sunday: Broken Little Sister’s “Blue”

Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Enjoy Broken Little Sister, another obscure Japanese Shoegazer band, which supposedly includes members of Civic. “Blue,” off their Memories, Violet & Demons album, sounds a little bit like Presents for Sally’s “When We All Move Away.”

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Shoegazer Sunday: Stepdad’s “Must Land Running”

Sunday, March 17th, 2019

This is more noisepop than Shoegaze, but it’s similar to some songs I’ve put up, so here it is:

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Shoegazer Sunday: 93MillionMilesFromTheSun’s “The Times We Have Are Now”

Sunday, December 30th, 2018

93MillionMilesFromTheSun hail from Doncaster in South Yorkshire in the UK, and it’s been five years since I last featured them. If you like the groove that comes in about 20 seconds into “The Times We Have Are Now,” there’s a lot of it…

(Hat tip: DeanShoegazeBromley’s Twitter feed.)

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Library Additions: Five Reference Books (And One Oddity)

Saturday, December 29th, 2018

The last of the books from the Camelot 60% off sale. All but one of these are reference books, and the other is an oddity I just didn’t include with the previously listed books.

  • (Ellison, Harlan) Richmond, Tim, compiler and editor. Fingerprints on the Sky: The Authorized Harlan Ellison Bibliography. Edgeworks Abbey/Subterranean Press, 2017. First edition hardback, #238 of 500 numbered copies signed by Ellison and Richmond, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Massive oversized hardback, roughly 12 1/2″ high by 11″ wide. Lacks an index. Bought for $30, marked down from $75.

  • (Farmer, Philip Jose) Croteau, Michael. The Best of Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip Jose Farmer. Meteor House, 2017. First edition hardback, one of 175 hardcovers signed by five of the contributors, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Contains a mixture of Farmer’s fiction, non-fiction, and essays about Farmer and his works by others, so I’ll probably end up shelving this under fiction anyway. Bought for $20, marked down from $50.

  • Golden, Christopher, editor (Clive Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles L. Grant, John Ferris, etc). Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film. Borderlands Press, 1992. First hardback edition and first edition thus, #318 of 500 signed, numbered copies signed by most of the contributors (doesn’t look like Anne Rice signed it), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. Bought for $20 marked down from $50 (list price was $65).

  • King, Stephen, with John Mellencamp and T. Bone Burnett. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Concord Music Group, 2013. Trade paperback original in slipcase, the size and shape of an old multi-record LP boxed set, with two CDs of music and a DVD in pockets at the back. Libretto for a “Southern Gothic supernatural musical thriller.” The cast they’ve assembled to sing this thing is amazing: Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Kris Kristofferson, Roseanne Cash, Sheryl Crowe, etc. Bought for $19.99 marked down from $49.99.

  • (Lovecraft, H.P.) S.T. Joshi. H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography. University of Tampa Press, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. An update of Joshi’s 1981 Lovecraft bibliography. Weighs in at a hefty 681 pages. 200 Books by S. T. Joshi, I33a.

  • Williams, Liz, and Trevor Jones. Diary of a Witchcraft Shop. NewCon Press, 2011. First edition hardback, #49 of 50 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. I already owned the second volume, of which there were 100 hardbacks. Bought for $12 marked down from $30.

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    Christmas Shoegazer: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”

    Tuesday, December 25th, 2018

    As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:

    Merry Christmas!

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    Shoegazer Sunday: The Gathering Covers “When The Sun Hits”

    Sunday, December 23rd, 2018

    When in doubt, post a Slowdive cover…

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    Shoegazer Sunday: Luke Reed’s “I’m Dreaming”

    Sunday, December 16th, 2018

    This is a pleasant enough dreampop song, but I’m posting it hear mainly because of how perfectly it mimics a certain strain of pop music circa 1984-85. You could slip this right between the Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen…

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    Shoegazer Sunday: The Capsules’ “The Long Goodbye”

    Sunday, September 9th, 2018

    The Capsules are another band in the Saint Marie Records stable:

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