Genre
Shoegaze
13 bands in the Top 500 carry Shoegaze as a primary or secondary tag.
- 13 bands
- 1990s dominant era
- 4 countries
- #111 The Jesus and Mary Chain
Reid brothers' fuzz-pop project, an indie touchstone whose noise inspired shoegaze.
- #112 My Bloody Valentine
The genre-defining shoegaze band whose 'Loveless' remains untouchable.
- #113 Slowdive
British shoegazers of glacial beauty whose reunion rebuilt the genre's audience.
- #114 Ride
Oxford four-piece blending Byrdsian jangle with shoegaze haze.
- #115 Cocteau Twins
Scottish dream-pop pioneers whose ethereal vocals shaped 4AD aesthetics.
- #274 Los Planetas
Granada indie-rock standard-bearers in Spain.
- #386 The Horrors
Southend band who arc-ed from goth garage to layered shoegaze rock.
- #454 DIIV
Brooklyn shoegaze band of Slowdive-tinged guitar haze.
- #455 Deerhunter
Atlanta art-rock band of restless reinvention and Bradford Cox songwriting.
- #460 Spiritualized
Jason Pierce's post-Spacemen-3 band of gospel-rock cosmic excess.
- #461 Spacemen 3
Rugby drone-rock duo whose riff-and-repetition aesthetic shaped indie psych.
- #462 Loop
London drone-rock band of motorik pulse and feedback haze.
- #469 The Boo Radleys
Wallasey band whose hazy psych-pop briefly went chart-pop with 'Wake Up Boo!'.