Found this excellent .mp3 blog called Shoegazer Alive 2 that has tons of great classic shoegazer bands ready for you to download. There’s numerous hidden gems from the early to mid 90s that you probably missed the first time around. Even I found a few bands I’d never heard of! And that’s hard for me. Not sure of the legality but most of the bands are no longer around and the vast majority are from small indie labels and no longer in print. Enjoy…
Most people who know me are aware that I’m a huge music snob.
I got my first radio job in 1997 at this tiny jazz station in Lansing, MI where I grew up. They played “contemporary” (err… smooth) jazz during the days for all the state workers and at night it was all “straight-ahead” jazz, and late nights it was the blues (and I’m not talking about the classics… it was mostly modern, urban, white blues for weekend warrior types). I was 20 years old and already had a fairly wide lexicon of knowledge about jazz. My first few months I mainly got stuck doing the smooth jazz and blues shifts so it was absolute torture for me to open up the mic and try to sound somewhat enthusiastic. Didn’t I say I was huge music snob?