#shoegaze

#shoegaze

Well, hello lovers of music and culture. We are Under the Stars, a quasi-weekly column that stays on message with strong-ass opinions, presenting new music releases, upcoming shows, and other adjacent items. chokecherry, Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls When I finally caught SF's buzziest band, chokecherry, live and in person back in June, while taking in those rich, velvety atmospheric moments from their previous release, the Messy Star EP. Great name, BTW. Immediately, I got it. Sped-up goth, '90s counterculture grunge with alt-rock fuzz?

Nick Quan's song " Heavensafe," which runs big feelings through a bigger pedalboard, features a funny declaration: "I've turned to slop again." This past August, when the extraordinary guitarist released Warbrained, shoegaze might have been saying so, too. By then, its latest-and most puzzling-progeny was " cloud rock," a budding vanguard that subverted its central extremes: numbness first, and noise, if at all, second.

"When the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed: a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape," Kelley said in a press release. "Sometimes songs sound great in your head but then don't translate well into reality.

The legendary Talking Heads frontman finally returns with a new full-length studio album, which is his first since 2018's American Utopia and his ninth overall. Byrne, who collaborated on the album with New York City-based musical ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra, will likely showcase some new songs during a tour that includes three dates (Nov. 16-18) at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco (apeconcerts.com).

"It does freak me out when I sit back and, in retrospect, think about it," Chino Moreno says of Deftones' longevity.