The Music Fix — News Flash: Shoegaze a go-goAs one of the major players in the UK's original shoegaze scene, Cranes were one of the first rock bands to put the seaside town of Portsmouth on the musical map (it says here!). With parallels drawn with Cocteau Twins an... more info

Guardian Music — The Sigur Rós frontman tries something a little different at lastThe world divides into two kinds of people: those who believe you can divide the world into spurious, discrete camps, and those who do not. For the sake of argument, though, let's pr... more info

Guardian Music — (Rocket Girl)The German electronic musician and producer has been in demand since blending 1990s-style shoegaze with a dash of minimal electronica on albums like 2007's Goodbye. His tracks have turned up on computer games and car ads; two of his reco... more info

Guardian Music — First started as a so-called test lab, 4AD produced Cocteau Twins and the Pixies - it was a breeding ground for goth, pan-continental post-rock and much more besidesIn 1980, 4AD set out to supplant the nihilism of punk with an atmospheric, esoteric n... more info

Pitchfork — The uber-cool Cologne dance label Kompakt has announced that they will be distributing the new label Tri Angle, run by Robin Carolan, a writer for the British music blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats. The label will devote itself to a genre of music so new th... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by hip-hop's screwed brigade, drag's heavy atmospherics and tormented outlook are pure musical entropyWhen Salem first stepped from the shadows in late 2007, people had fun describing their creepy and creeping sound: screwgaze, cave crunk, g... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I'm conciosus that more people have discovered TVV over the past 12 months or so than ever before, and it's a very fair bet that not many go back too far in the archives, especially as the mp3s attached to the writing have long been made unavailable... more info

Guardian Music — This secretive boy-girl duo have so far retained a sense of anonymity and mystique, but not for much longer – they are going to be a big deal over the next few monthsHometown: London.The lineup: Summer Camp (vocals, keyboards).The background: ... more info

Stereogum — Reyna Kay is one half of Blessure Grave, the gothy Hellhammer-referencing South California death rock band and one-time Outsiders you should expect big things from in 2010. (Well, amongst those of us who listen to Swans, Cocteau Twins, KUKL, and old ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Rolling Stone profiles The Big Pink. Sounds Like: A mix of suffocating shoegaze textures, arena-ready pop hooks and the occasional breakbeat, their debut album, A History Of Love, recalls classic 4AD labelmates like the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dan... more info