In a packed venue full of leather jackets, flannels and the unmistakable aura of nostalgia, Slowdive reminded me why they remain at the heart of the shoegaze genre. Over three decades after their ...
Shoegaze greats Slowdive are in NYC currently and played their first of two consecutive shows at Webster Hall on Wednesday night (9/27). They’re touring for their terrific new album everything is ...
It was a more triumphant indie rock comeback tale than anyone could have expected. In 2014, almost 20 years after they broke up, British shoegaze icons Slowdive reformed. This itself wasn't especially ...
Slowdive is a British band known for its soft, layered music. They became famous in the early 1990s as part of the shoegaze scene. Their sound is quiet, dreamy, and full of feeling. Though their early ...
“The intent is for us to do another record,” says Neil Halstead, founding guitarist and vocalist of the recently-reunited Slowdive. “We all really want to do that. Whether we manage it or not, I’m not ...
Twenty years after a Britpop-obsessed music press drove them out of town, the re-formed band’s sound can be heard in the music of everyone from Tame Impala to the 1975. Not that their kids are ...
Reunited shoegaze heroes Slowdive are revisiting one of their most classic moment, delivering fans a new version of their "Golden Hair." The updated version of the band's 1991 song arrives as part of ...
At the risk of encouraging more disbanded groups to reform and clog up festival lineups for the next 20 years, there is a certain pleasure in hearing an originator of a genre produce the purest, ...
Last month, Slowdive performed live again for the first time since 1994. The five original members—singers and guitarists Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick ...
Resurrecting a band for anything other than nostalgia’s sake is a tough thing. As time goes by, things change. Tastes change. So, 20 odd years later, do you still have something to say? Are you still ...
The first go-around for Reading, U.K.’s Slowdive exists in the annals of music history as a cautionary tale about how powerful the press once was at both deifying, and vilifying, young artists. Though ...
I watch Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation for the first time last week and, not five minutes into the ’90s queer Bonnie & Clyde & Clyde thriller, we got the first of two Slowdive needle drops. For the ...