(I can tell you more, if you want. This is simply what I managed to squeeze into the 250-word limit.)
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
2009 National Conference – New Orleans, LA
To be featured in panel “Music: Influences”
“When You Wake You’re Still in a Dream: My Bloody Valentine and the Shoegazer Revival.”
In September 2008, legendary [...]

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A mere 13 posts ago, I lamented:
Now all I need is for My Bloody Valentine to reunite, and I’ll be happy. Sigh. Not bloody likely!
Well, according to The Daily Swarm, it really is rather bloody likely:
Is the long wait finally over? My Bloody Valentine, the legendary sonic sculptors of feedback and tremelo who helped define [...]

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My friend PJ is publishing an article for an Italian music magazine later this year; the article will feature interviews with musicians involved in the “shoegazing” movement of the early 1990s. He asked me to put together the magazine’s supplemental web content: an outline of the movement for those who, uh, missed it. Here’s a [...]

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