“[I]t’s what happened to your fore parents and other people. And that’s what makes the blues.”
John Lee Hooker
Last year I went to Pond’s concert in Asheville, the day after in a town over we told a barista and he asked if they are ‘like shoegaze’; I said yeah thinking ‘shoegaze’ was the band Slowdive.
A year later I’ve delved into shoegaze and most notably grunge gaze, a la Wisp opening at Slowdive, interviewing New York’s Glimmer, reddit acclaimed shoegaze No Joy and listening to California’s Midrift, Arizona’s Glixen and Connecticut’s Ovlov.
These genre evolutions from Rock, with its roots respectively in Blues, Country and Folk, reflect conversations between industrialization and balance with nature and distortions organic and synthetic as well as personal and collective struggles.
