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 ...

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 ...

Slowdive released their self-titled debut EP 25 years ago today (November 5, 1990). To commemorate the occasion, the band have shared a live recording of the EP’s “Avalyn” from their 2014 North ...

Four years after the band reunited, shoegaze legend Slowdive is still drawing fans. Off the heels of a well-received 2017 self-titled album, the English five-piece is happy to navigate whatever it ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The quintet’s fifth full-length is a dreamy yet taut melding of their strengths. Circling guitars and wafting synths are grounded ...

I don’t think I would’ve predicted in 1993 that Slowdive would not only still be going but also the biggest shoegaze band of our current time, and most influential as far as the new crop of hazy ...

There’s something special about witnessing the members of an audience standing at a concert, anticipating the synths in their favorite song to start building and finally crash—a sea of people nodding ...

“The intent is for us to do another record,” says Neil Halstead, founding guitarist and vocalist of the recently-reunited Slowdive. “We all really want to do that. Whether we manage it or not, I’m not ...

The first go-around for Reading, U.K.’s Slowdive exists in the annals of music history as a cautionary tale about how powerful the press once was at both deifying, and vilifying, young artists. Though ...

Slowdive will play Fortress Festival at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on April 30 The last and only time Slowdive passed through Dallas was August 1993 when they opened for Catherine Wheel at ...

English indie band Slowdive celebrates the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1993 LP “Souvlaki” this year. The shoegaze project — comprising Rachel Goswel, Neil Halstead, Simon Scott, Nick Chaplin and ...