And the Slowdive cover kick continues, with Indonesia’s Jellybelly doing their cover of “Machine Gun” in a jangly live performance.
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Jellybelly Cover’s Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, August 31st, 2014Shoegazer Sunday: The Sleepover Disaster’s “Oceanographer”
Sunday, August 24th, 2014Here’s Fresno, California’s The Sleepover Disaster with “Oceanographer,” which sounds a tiny bit like Radiohead.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Golden Hair” Live
Sunday, August 17th, 2014Since their reunion, Slowdive seems to be a vastly better touring band than they were in their heyday. I think it helps that they’ve brought on more touring musicians to fill out the sound. According to the band on Twitter, it’s just the original five members.
Here they are covering Syd Barrett’s “Golden Hair” (from that post-Pink Floyd recording session here he never played anything the same way twice). The Barrett original is some two minutes long, and the original cover Slowdive did was four minutes long. This version is eight minutes long, and ends with one of the most beautiful, multiguitar Shoegaze solos ever recorded. (No wonder that one woman in the audience looks like she’s having a religious experience…)
This was recorded at the Best Kept Secret festival in The Netherlands on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
Shoegazer Sunday: Alcian Blue/The Antiques Cover Slowdive’s “Primal”
Sunday, August 10th, 2014The sound quality is not the best, and the vocals pretty much suck, but this cover by Alcian Blue (AKA The Antiques) is still the best live cover of “Primal” I’ve heard from anyone (including Slowdive, who only played it at early shows, and not particularly well).
Like I’ve said before, anyone doing good cover of “Primal” will get linked in this space.
As for Slowdive, their new tour shows their live shows have improved considerably, as we shall see next Sunday…
Shoegazer Sunday: The Swells’ “Golden”
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014The Swells were an Austin-based Shoegaze band. Here they are with “Golden.”
Evidently they’re now known as Seaholm Electric.
Shoegazer Sunday: SummerMay’s “Shine”
Sunday, July 27th, 2014Here’s “Shine,” another one from Zurich’s SummeryMay. The best description I can come up with for them is “Imagine a Christian shoegaze Night Ranger that doesn’t suck.” People I told this too were having some trouble wrapping their heads around the concept…
Shoegazer Sunday: Sugar Plant’s “Rise”
Sunday, July 20th, 2014Sugar Plant are on the softer end of Japanese Shoegaze. Here they are with “Rise.”
Their Happy EP (which includes “Rise”) is available from iTunes.
Weird Al Brings The Grammar
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014I bet every high school English teacher in America will be showing this to their class come September…
Shoegazer Sunday: Galaxie 500 Covers Joy Division’s “Ceremony”
Sunday, July 13th, 2014For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Galaxie 500 covering seminal punk band Joy Division’s “Ceremony”:
Shegazer Sunday: Tripwires’ “Cinnamon”
Sunday, July 6th, 2014For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s UK psychedelic shoegaze outfit Tripwires (not to be confused with Midwestern frat rock band Tripwire) with the short, high octane “Cinnamon.”
I think the video features footage from Alejandro Jordowsky’s Holy Mountain, which includes some very brief nudity.