Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slowdive. In the early '90s, shoegaze was the genre that everyone loved to hate. Blinded by the ascendancy of grunge and Britpop, ...

Slowdive‘s reformation after decades of silence is a moment that many of its fans—and, at points, the band itself—never saw coming. The reunion was spurred by an offer from Primavera Sound, the annual ...

Given the goodwill that they’ve generated since disbanding—the well-regarded reissues, documentaries, and legions of younger bands hailing them as influences—it’s easy to forget how badly Slowdive’s ...

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 ...

The big news with yesterday’s Primavera Sound 2014 line-up announcement (for me at least) was the return of shoegaze vets Slowdive. The band broke up 1995 right after the release of their third album, ...

Sometimes bands that reunite after a long time apart talk about how they could have avoided splitting up in the first place. Not Slowdive. With the release this week of Slowdive, their first new album ...

When their third album, Pygmalion, came out in February 1995, Slowdive had already been marching towards their own funeral. The album had been finished and delivered to Creation Records a year prior ...

Out of all the bands to emerge out of the early-’90s shoegaze scene in Britain — so named because the musicians spent so much time staring down at their guitar pedals — Slowdive was musically the most ...