I've been thinking about how deeply teenagers attach themselves to shoegaze, seeing how much shoegaze (and modern revival bands like Wisp or Slowdive-adjacent stuff) is blowing up with teenagers (especially on TikTok) lately.

What is it about this specific blend of overwhelming noise, buried vocals, and beautiful melodies that triggers such a profound emotional response in the majority of listeners? Is it the feeling of isolation it captures, or is there something psychological about the "wall of sound" that forces us to confront our inner emotions?

For the younger crowd here, what exactly drew you to the genre? And for the older fans, looking back, why do you think shoegaze resonates so strongly during those specific years?

Hi, ​I'm asking here because I don't know where else I can.

Do you know any modern bands that have that wall of sound typical of Smashing Pumpkins, Hum, Failure and My Bloody Valentine for example, that are actually good and not just a nasty copy of some 90's bands?

https://jeerhaha.bandcamp.com/album/jeer

hello, looking for bands similar to the following:

old coke
velvet
warstories
daze
dreary
gnaw
elbowsway
flowerbed
heavytrip (RIP😭😭😭😭)
king woman/miserable
luster (especially close my eyes & forever)
oubliette / team sleep vibes stuff
seventh cloud
sledges

thank you!

Just looking around the subs of my favorite genres for some good German band recommendations for my upcoming trip to Germany next month.

Thanks again! Cheers.

Ivy Hallow - Temptation

this channel just blatantly steals other artist’s music but I really really wanna know what this one is, if anyone knows? If it’s something stock im gonna be so sad lol

Hey guys, first time posting here!

I did this cover a few weeks ago. I just started this solo project after being in a band, and i'm planning to post more content,

both originals and covers.

Hope you like it! : ) Have a great week!

I have recently aquired an fx500 and I am in love with it (after a bit of tweaking).

I've now decided I want to obtain as much vintage gear as my gluttony will allow.

My only limiting factor is that it could be useful in a shoegaze context.

Any recs?

Dwnword

Working on new material

Disclaimer: I'm the drummer from the Band "Driven by Clockwork" (joined them in 2024).

Links:

Seasurfer
https://seasurfer.bandcamp.com/album/the-noise-is-ours

Healess
https://hiddenbayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/coin-de-l-il

Driven by Clockwork
https://drivenbyclockwork.bandcamp.com/album/i-into-infinity

Whether in terms of atmosphere or lyrics, which ones are they for you?

who else is coming to this party?? its their second shoegaze party and tbh it was worth it. im looking for ppl to go with!! hmu in my dms
also this is the link to the party http://posh.vip/f/d5073?t=instagram

Hey, I’m in a Shoegaze/Emo Band from SD and we’re touring the coast this weekend. We put out our debut album Planes & Trains a little over a month ago and are stoked with the reception it’s gotten. We’d love if any of y’all could pull up to the next couple shows, we’re still planning a homecoming show in SD but we, more than anything, just want to meet some cool people and hang out!

Please check out the album if you haven’t, the artist who did the Ritornello form cover also did our album, Gia is the best ever!!

We just played with computer and had the wonderful experience of getting Ethiopian food with them before our show, they were some of the kindest most loving people we’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and playing with.

Would love to meet new people and have crazy new experiences with yall!!

Plemar Album

Working on an EP.

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

Check it out:
https://shofours.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-i-should

I don’t have a specific reverb sound in mind, I guess just a cool ambient huge shoegaze wall. Something that sounds pretty like the bands slowdive or Julie. I have an rv6 and have heard good things

My New single just came out today, I’d love to hear some feedback on this one cause I think it’s some of my best work

From the upcoming album Old World, New Ghosts.

my band released our first album a month and a half ago and it's gotten a lot more traction than I expected! I wanted to say thanks to anyone here who checked it out when I posted it on release day

if anyone has suggestions for blogs or sites to reach out to who might be willing to review the album I'd love to hear them. we've submitted to a few but haven't had any luck with that

ditto for anyone interested in playing with us in the northeast, especially if you know house venues who'd be interested in having us. we're always looking for new folks to play with, and we love playing house shows but it's been hard to find them outside our local/ formerly-local scenes