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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For a brief moment, Slowdive were the most hated band on the planet. Or at least in the UK. In 1991, Richey Edwards of Manic Street Preachers famously declared, “I will always hate Slowdive more than ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The shoegaze greats' new LP Everything Is Alive is due this Friday (Sept. 1). By Frank DiGiacomo Editor Slowdive fans had to wait just six years for the band’s latest album, Everything Is Alive — half ...