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Shoegazing under the microscope, starring My Bloody Valentine and Ride
Steve DoubleWhenever an old/classic album is reissued these days – which is pretty much every day – it’s inevitably advertised as having been remastered, and it’s assumed that that’s a good thing. And not unreasonably – when a lot of these albums were originally released on compact disc, they were poorly converted from analog to [...]
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Kevin Shields And Sony Apparently Remastering My Bloody Valentine Albums
Two classic My Bloody Valentine albums are going under the knife in a remastering process driven by frontman Kevin Shields and Sony/BMG, according to a source familiar with the situation. Both albums -- Isn't Anything and especiall... Read Post
My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Accuses Sony of Hiding Master Tapes
Getty While fans will be happy knowing they are days from seeing reissues of My Bloody Valentine's classic shoegazer albums Isn't Anything and Loveless, guitarist Kevin Shields says getting to this point was anything but easy. In a ... Read Post
Difference Engine Reissues Breadmaker, Recomputes Shoegaze
Atmospheric rock band Difference Engine released its debut Breadmaker in 1994 to a world being weaned off My Bloody Valentine and so-called shoegaze rock. But now that a remastered version of the record has been reissued, the group’... Read Post