It was a more triumphant indie rock comeback tale than anyone could have expected. In 2014, almost 20 years after they broke up, British shoegaze icons Slowdive reformed. This itself wasn't especially ...

Slowdive broke up following the release of 1995's Pygmalion, but reunited in 2014 for a worldwide tour. Today, they've released a new song called "Star Roving," their first new music in over twenty ...

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive released a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, last month via Dead Oceans. It was our Album of the Week. Now the band have ...

When Slowdive reunited in 2014, it wasn't all about nostalgia or money or even to see if they could do it. They reunited because they wanted to be a band again. The shoegaze legends' first shows after ...

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 ...

Twenty years after a Britpop-obsessed music press drove them out of town, the re-formed band’s sound can be heard in the music of everyone from Tame Impala to the 1975. Not that their kids are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A few years ago someone on Twitter shared an old image of Rachel Goswell, of Slowdive, in a huge wig with a machine gun slung over her shoulder and an ammo belt dangling from her neck. She responded ...