Haruo Nakajima, the original actor inside the Godzilla suit for the first twelve Toho films, has died at age 88.
The suit was so hot and heavy that Nakajima evidently fainted several times during the making of the original Godzilla.
Here are some video tributes:
It would be remiss of me not to share this…
Premiering on SyFy August 6.
Yeah, another live Slowdive song. I’ve been busy with a new dog, so I haven’t had a chance to go trawling for new shoegaze bands.
Hat tip to Andrew Wimsatt for alerting me to this.
Here’s a blast from the past: A young Joel Hodgson appearing on David Letterman before creating Mystery Science Theater 3000.
No wonder Letterman had him on: they both share some of the same goofy Midwestern sense of humor…
I liked last week’s Linda Guilala track so much I bought the album, so this week’s track is “Uroboros,” which is also off Psiconáutica.
Here’s Spain’s Linda Guilala (a band, not a woman) with “Monstruo” off their album Psiconáutica, which I might have to pick up, as the tracks strike me as a tasty mix of Shoegaze, classic analog synth and just a dash of 8-bit.
(Hat tip: Sounds Better With Reverb, which seems to have stopped updating after the end of 2016.)
To celebrate Independence Day, here’s a crazy Brit setting off an assload of fireworks in his Van:
This is more Dreampop than Shoegaze, but it’s pretty, so here it is.
I’m guessing De Montevert hails from Sweden, based on email addresses and umlauts.
To be honest, this isn’t so much a Shoegaze band as a single guitarist showing how to do shoegaze and performing all the parts himself via mixing, loops and digital Frippitronics.
How did I miss The Octopus Project until now? You would think an Austin band with a female theremin player would be right up my alley…