Shoegaze
Doom Mutual
Doom Mutual unifies the musical endeavors of Nashville-based musicians Daphne Browdy and Davis Gestiehr, constructing familiar but eccentrically fascinating rock qualitie...
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Shoegaze
The best shoegaze artists featured on Release Wave
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Shoegaze
MX LONELY
Brooklyn heavy alternative band MX LONELY fuse shoegaze, grunge, post-punk and hardcore into a dense, cathartic sound. Following 2026 debut album ALL MONSTERS , they retu...
Shoegaze
Despire
Despire are a four-piece grungegaze band from Vacaville, California, formed in 2026 by Wesson Markowski (rhythm guitar/vocals), Jeremiah Denis (lead guitar), Jesse Broyle...
Indie Rock
The Still Out
New York City shoegaze and indie rock band The Still Out pair layered, angular guitars with soaring melodies and post-punk dynamics. Formed by producers Josh Stoddard and...
Shoegaze
Modern Daze
Modern Daze is an alternative rock band from Tacoma, Washington, built around heavy guitar textures, melodic hooks, and the kind of emotional push-and-pull that sits comf...
Punk
Gollylagging
Boston DIY quartet Gollylagging make fuzz-heavy indie rock shaped by shoegaze, punk, bedroom pop and alt-country, with echoes of Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Alex G, Swirlies...
Shoegaze
Semaphore
Semaphore is a Brooklyn-based post-shoegaze band known for blending the atmospheric, moody sounds of shoegaze with the heaviness and urgency of post-hardcore. Led by Sidd...
Pop Punk
Slow Joy
Slow Joy is a Dallas-based Chicano artist, leading a solo project that delves into loud, fuzzy alternative rock. With a series of singles and EPs, Slow Joy's music resona...
Indie Rock
Kill Gosling
Columbus, Ohio band Kill Gosling make fuzzy indie punk with the immediacy of Joyce Manor and Superchunk, layering sharp pop hooks with shoegaze texture and elements of se...
Dream Pop
Devereux Scales
Devereux Scales are a five-piece from El Cerrito, California, assembled out of a couple of decades of East Bay band history — Fake French, Passing Lanes, Geisha Boys, and...
Shoegaze
heaving.
heaving. is a four-piece heavy band from Peoria, IL blending nu-metal, grunge, post-hardcore, and shoegaze into a dense, riff-driven wall of sound. Singer/guitarist Morga...
Dream Pop
Cold Gawd
Cold Gawd is a California shoegaze and post-hardcore band built around dense guitars, gauzy melody and a hard rhythmic push. The group returns August 28, 2026 with the si...
Dream Pop
she's green
Minneapolis five-piece she's green make immersive dream pop and shoegaze they describe as “moss music,” pairing Zofia Smith’s airy vocals with shimmering guitars, soft-fo...
Indie Rock
Seer Believer
Seer Believer is the solo project of Nick Manske — the Denver/Aurora, Colorado songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as a guitarist in emogaze band Gleemer. Bui...
Shoegaze
Slow Degrade
Slow Degrade are a heavy-shoegaze four-piece from Mobile, Alabama, welding grunge and post-hardcore weight onto walls of reverbed guitar. Formed in 2022 around vocalist S...
Shoegaze
My Vitriol
My Vitriol are a London alternative rock band formed in 1998 by Sri Lankan-born frontman Som Wardner and drummer Ravi Kesavaram, who met as students at UCL. Their 2001 de...
Shoegaze
Badvril
Badvril is a San Francisco-based alternative rock project led by singer Becket Schroeder with drummer Tessa Piccillo. Rooted in DIY urgency and melodic guitar pressure, t...
Shoegaze
Daisyhead
Nashville-rooted emo/post-hardcore band Daisyhead write big, emotionally direct guitar songs that sit between alternative rock, hopeful shoegaze, and the melodic weight o...
Shoegaze
Senior Living
Senior Living is a punk-leaning shoegaze band from Albany, NY, drawing comparisons to artists like Title Fight and Nothing. Their introspective and raw music blends melod...
Indie Rock
Midrift
San Francisco shoegaze trio — Gus Mehrkam and brothers Manoa and Kai Neukermans — who went viral as teenagers with "Twin Flames" and "unrequited" before releasing a singl...