Guardian Music — This dream-pop duo's feedback-heavy sound is like a smudged, hazy snapshot of the shoegaze ageHometown: Montreal/LA.The lineup: Laura Lloyd (vocals, guitar), Jasamine White-Gluz (vocals, guitar).The background: "Shoegaze" is one of those scenes or so... more info

Guardian Music — Yuck Get Away (Mercury) It's not immediately apparent what Yuck are attempting to flee from here, possibly My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Boris Yeltsin and Fido Dido leaning out of a battered Nissan Sunny, waving flaming copies of Melody Maker and... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Zer0_II said... Digital Meltd0wn's tribute to the victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan continues. Strange Ranger delivers an amazing collection of film scores from legendary Japanese composer Shinichirô Ikebe... Shinichirô Ikebe - Dreams / Rh... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Fans will be able to see Upside Down, The Creation Records Story, in Northern Ireland later this week.The two dates are:Belfast Film Festival on Friday April 1st - details here.Select screening in Derry on Sat Apr 2nd, details here. Upside Down is a ... more info

Guardian Music — (Fortuna POP!)The Brooklyn indiepop bands who emerged a couple of years ago are now facing the same test their British mid-80s forebears faced and, in the main, failed: how do you build a career when your very reason for being was to make a single st... more info

Guardian Music — Amadeus Centre, London"We don't want to be stuck playing Hackney every Friday. We exist outside all that," Cat's Eyes singer Faris Badwan said recently. Indeed, the debut London show of this Anglo-Canadian duo took place not in the capital's hipster ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Despite the absence of several notable characters, this documentary gives an interesting glimpse into the history of Creation RecordsThere's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of... more info

Guardian Music — Despite the absence of several notable characters, this documentary gives an interesting glimpse into the history of Creation RecordsThere's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Sony BMG / 2006 (Pitchfork 8.4/10)Danish quartet Mew's dense and occasionally difficult And the Glass Handed Kites is old-fashioned only in the sense that it's meant to be eaten in a single sitting. This is not a single-driven record — though "Spec... more info

Impose Magazine — There's something about 80s goth, 90s shoegaze, and 00s dream-pop that seems to hold the same nostalgia through each decade. From The Cure to My Bloody Valentine, through The Radio Dept., the wave of lonely dreamers presses on. Beginning the new de... more info