shoegaze

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shoe·ga·z·ing

 (sho͞o′gā′zĭng) or shoe·gaze (-gāz′)
n.
A genre of popular music characterized by droning, electronically modified sounds, typically performed and listened to motionlessly with the eyes cast downward in introspection and often under the influence of psychoactive substances.
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shoegaze

A form of late 1980s and early 1990s British rock characterized by the motionless “shoe-gazing” performances of its practitioners.
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By his mid-teens, Rome had moved on to shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, eventually finding a niche in "shoegaze RandB" that he continues to explore.
Continuing to study jazz throughout school and performing in bands from Grindcore, Mathrock to Shoegaze, she fell in love with something a million miles away from jazz hard-driving, distorted industrial Techno.
The famous shoegaze singer and multi-instrumentalist might make up one half of the twopiece but this is largely the work of her husband Steve Clarke.
Fronted by the multi-talented Sally Mason (who also performs in two other local bands Taylor & The Mason and The Happy Soul), Aughra have been charming Manchester audiences with their gritty, atmospheric blend of shoegaze and noir-rock.
This Taiwanese shoegaze and noise rock band with a dash of twee has been invited to perform in the SXSW (South by SouthWest) Festival in the United States as well as the Canadian Music Fest, a five-night festival that showcases a lot of bands.
Our music is rock and roll but with many other influences mixed in like shoegaze with some psychedelic hints.
TUESDAY DEAFHAVEN Catch this amazing SF band and their mix of black metal, thrash, post-rock and shoegaze (yes, really) at The Art School in Glasgow tonight.
The band was a defining act of the U.K.'s shoegaze scene that emerged in the early 1990s.
music Jesus and Mary Chain Shoegaze pioneers The Jesus and Mary Chain will be playing at Liverpool's Olympia.
Mixing the melodies of indie with the crunching guitars of grunge and the otherwordly hum of shoegaze, the six tracks on Near Life Experience push you down the rabbit hole.
This is most evident on the highlight: burning stomper Flower Of Sex, which gathers up Nineties shoegaze guitars and echoes of The Smiths on the way to its heady end.
white and call us Gen X "Shoegaze your trauma and don't sound
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