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25 Years After Its Imperial Phase: Who Killed Shoegaze?
With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
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The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego
Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic
