Slowdive, the British rock band, has been making dreamy guitar-rich records since the early 1990s. They pioneered something called shoegaze, a heavily layered style of music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...
There are some bands that really shouldn’t get back together. There’s a reason that, a lot of times, it’s better to just leave the past in the past, to go with grace instead of forcing fans to bear ...
Slowdive announced that their next album, Everything Is Alive, will drop this fall. The band has ushered in the new era with a lead single, “Kisses,” a dreamy track that sprinkles in some gentle ...
When Slowdive began to discuss the idea of reuniting in 2013, Rachel Goswell had virtually given up on a music career. “My son was born in 2010, so I was a full-time mom, that was it,” she says over ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 50 Best Albums of 2017 Less arty than My Bloody Valentine, less angsty than Swervedriver, less cheeky than Lush, and rarely as ...
Slowdive is giving fans an idea of what to expect from their next album, Everything Is Alive. The band’s latest song, “The Slab,” opens with an energetic guitar that builds anticipation before pulling ...
During the band’s initial run in the early ’90s, Slowdive was a victim of genre pigeonholing. The English quintet was fronted by vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Neil Halstead and vocalist and ...
I don’t think I would’ve predicted in 1993 that Slowdive would not only still be going but also the biggest shoegaze band of our current time, and most influential as far as the new crop of hazy ...
If you’re a Slowdive fan or a shoegaze listener, you’ve probably heard these four essential tracks before and love them as much as the next diehard fan. However, if you’re just now getting into the ...
A few years ago someone on Twitter shared an old image of Rachel Goswell, of Slowdive, in a huge wig with a machine gun slung over her shoulder and an ammo belt dangling from her neck. She responded ...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Slowdive's new song — the band's first in 22 years — is that it sounds like Slowdive. For a band consistently listed as one of shoegaze's pioneering acts, that ...
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 ...