Musician Prince, AKA Prince Rogers Nelson, AKA The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, AKA 
is dead at age 57.
Imagine there’s an embedded video of “Paisley Park” here, since Prince was evidently extra diligent in keeping his music off the Internet…
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Prince RIP
Thursday, April 21st, 2016Shoegazer Sunday: Dominique Fricot’s “I Miss the 80s”
Sunday, April 17th, 2016This is probably more pop than Shoegaze, but Dominique Fricot’s “I Miss the 80s” is a fun little song that has a dream pop vibe to it.
Having lived through the 1980s, my only caveat is that these are not the cultural referents I would have personally deployed. Even given that, the song still evokes a bit of wry nostalgia. But part of the point of the song is that it’s not first-hand nostalgia, it’s second-hand nostalgia refracted through the prism of the popular music and movies of the era by someone who was “too young to really know.”
It’s also probably the finest song to ever talk about Jennifer Grey’s nose…
Shoegazer Sunday: Stella Diana’s “Sulphur”
Sunday, April 10th, 2016Stella Diana hails from Naples, Italy. Here’s “Sulpher.”
Luna Covers “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on a Gayageum
Thursday, March 24th, 2016Looks like it’s shaping up to be World Music Week here at Futuramen, so here’s Luna Lee covering “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the traditional Korean Gayageum:
“Crazy Horse”: A Song That Kicks Ass
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016If you’re a fan of the film Genghis Blues (which you should be; it’s a swell film), then you might very well like this performance of “Crazy Horse” by Mathias Duplessy and the Violins of the World.
That weird instrument on the left is evidently the Nyckelharpa, or key fiddle.
Unfortunately, the album this is from doesn’t appear to be available in the U.S. yet…
Shoegazer Sunday: Darker My Love’s “Two Ways Out”
Sunday, March 20th, 2016Darker My love shows up on the Every Noise at Once Shoegaze map. And even though “Two Ways Out” sounds pretty close to straight pop, there’s just enough reverb and treatment on the guitar line for me to include it here.
Keith Emerson, RIP
Friday, March 11th, 2016Keith Emerson, the keyboardist for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died at age 71.
Along with Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks, Emerson was one of the great progressive rock keyboardists, and was one of the first players brave (or foolhardy) enough to take the massive, temperamental modular Moog synthesizer on the road.
(Note the shout-out to everyone’s favorite rock documentary…)
Here’s more on Emerson’s modular Moog for the analog hardcore:
Their song “Lucky Man” ends with Emerson’s classic Moog solo:
Here he is doing “America” from West Side Story on David Letterman:
In 2011, Emerson actually let keyboardist Rachel Flowers borrow his modular Moog to play a cover of ELP’s “Trilogy”:
Shoegazer Sunday: Orange’s “Against Nature”
Sunday, March 6th, 2016And here’s Orange, another “classic” shoegaze band I never heard of before St. Marie Records started planning a re-release of their work.
Either you’ll love Sonya Waters’ vocals (a beautiful high warble somewhere between The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan and Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard), or they’ll drive you to distraction. I’m in the love camp, so here’s “Against Nature.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Plastic Flowers’ “Diver”
Sunday, February 28th, 2016Plastic Flowers is Greek-born/London resident musician George Samaras. “Diver” is an aggressively pleasant little song off his new album Heavenly.
(Hat tip: Primal Music Blog.)
Shoegazer Sunday: Rancho Relaxo’s “Stars”
Sunday, February 14th, 2016For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Norway’s Rancho Relaxo with “Stars.”