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9 months

🤯 @slowdiveband 🤯

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“There was so much creative energy it was sometimes a feat to steer it. The whole process was a trip.” 1/7

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3 years

Anyone fancy this tonight? #1991 #theyearshoegazebroke

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3 years

Going against the prevailing trend of vinyl delays, as if by magic the new @Andybebop album, ‘Flicker’, has landed...

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4 years

@ianbrown What the fuck are you talking about? Why don’t you actually *do* something to help with the shit show that is unfolding rather than just peddle conspiracy theory bullshit?

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3 years

The makers of @uncutmagazine have put together this rather wonderful looking Ultimate Genre Guide to Shoegaze...

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3 years

30 years ago today, the word “shoe-gazers” appeared for the very first time in print...

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3 years

Happy 30th birthday to ‘Leave Them All Behind’ by @rideox4 - this is my original cassette single as purchased in Volume Records, Sunderland on this day in 1992 💙

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2 years

Happy 30th birthday to ‘Going Blank Again’ - the second album by @rideox4 - which was released on this day in 1992 and still sounds pretty good today! ❤️💛🤍💚

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2 years

Ryan from @smellybdrmm enjoying ‘Leave Them All Behind’ at @rideox4 ’s incredible @RoundhouseLDN show last night! 🏄

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5 years

£27.50 to listen to middle-aged men talking while Stereolab play in the background 🙉

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3 years

💛🖤💛FREE rare as hens’ teeth @slowdiveband ‘Golden Hair’ 7” single for follower number 10,000... 💛🖤💛

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4 years

RIP Denise. No one person has sung on so many of my favourite records ever. Including this one. What desperately sad news 💔

A Certain Ratio - Be What You Wanna Be (Official Audio)

A Certain Ratio - Be What You Wanna Be (Official Audio)Pre-order: http://smarturl.it/acrmcrA Certain Ratio announces details of the next phase of reissues on...

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3 years

30 years ago today, @MBVofficial released their second album, ‘Loveless’, and it was unlike anything anyone had heard before...

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1 year

🚨 NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 We are incredibly excited to announce that we will be releasing ‘Pearlies’, the debut solo album by Lush co-founder @evjanderson on October 20... All the details and pre-order info in the thread below... 🧵👇

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4 years

Andrew Weatherall was incredibly supportive over the years and I wrote some words about how he ended up being such an important part of not just the Sonic Cathedral story, but my whole adult life, from the moment I bought FAC242R onwards...

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4 years

Tonight from 6pm on @BBC6Music there’s a two-hour shoegaze request show, hosted by @freshnet . Tweet them with your requests and use the hashtag #NP6music

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Sonic Cathedral

@soniccathedral

2 years

I was very honoured to contribute an essay to this lovely new compilation of the first four @rideox4 EPs, which is coming out later this year alongside reissues of ‘Nowhere’ and ‘Going Blank Again’. They’re all available to pre-order here:

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6 months

RIP Damo Suzuki. Here he is playing with @earlyyearsband at a legendary Sonic Cathedral night at The Legion on November 3, 2006 🖤

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3 years

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4 years

25 years ago today, on February 6, 1995, @slowdiveband released their bleak and oblique third album, ‘Pygmalion’...

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4 years

RIP Andrew Weatherall - a true hero. Absolutely heartbroken.

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3 years

We are very excited to announce that @Andybebop will release his second solo album ‘Flicker’ on February 11..

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4 years

Very proud to be releasing the debut solo album by @andybebop today, almost exactly 30 years to the day since I was first blown away by @rideox4 and their debut album ‘Nowhere’...

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@soniccathedral

3 years

Extremely excited to announce that @smellybdrmm will be supporting @rideox4 as the special guests on their ‘Nowhere’ 30th Anniversary Tour of the UK in April 2022. All dates are on sale now, so grab a ticket for this dream bill if you haven't already!

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4 years

It’s Andrew Weatherall’s funeral today and, by chance, we found a bunch of these mix CDs he made for us a few years ago in our storage space. We thought we’d put them up on @Bandcamp and give all the money to @Shelter and the @mssocietyuk - two causes close to his heart...

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3 years

Here’s a sneak peek inside the forthcoming photo book, ‘Grass To Gaze’, which features Joe Dilworth’s incredible pictures of the 1991 Slough Festival...

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4 years

I love records so much I started a label, but I never understand why people get so *angry* about them 🤷‍♂️

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6 months

Remember when this happened five years ago?

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7 months

Sonic Cathedral turns 20 this year and plans are afoot... 🤐 Sign up to our mailing list to hear about things first via our new weekly newsletter, starting this Friday:

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3 years

30 years ago today Chapterhouse unleashed their classic single ‘Pearl’, which added John Bonham, Schoolly D and @RachelAGoswell to one of the finest collections of effects pedals in the Thames Valley...

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3 years

“Idea for a programme: ‘Press Gang’. Bands have to convince a panel that they need vinyl pressing capacity for their new release within the next 12 months. Judges include Ed Sheeran’s bank manager, Adele’s mum, Dexter Fletcher and Jason from the Sleaford Mods.”

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Sonic Cathedral

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1 year

I interviewed the band and wrote some sleevenotes for an incredible new Chapterhouse box set called ‘Chronology’. It includes pretty much everything they ever recorded across six CDs, including lots of previously unreleased tracks...

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Sonic Cathedral

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3 years

As you may know, I broke my ankle the other week and have just had surgery to fix it. I’m going to take a break from social media for few weeks to focus on a good recovery, but just wanted to say it’s been a vintage year...

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Sonic Cathedral

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4 years

29 years old today. It’s hard to see this face as anything other than melancholy now, as so many people involved in its creation are no longer with us. Jimmy Miller, Paul Cannell, Robert ‘Throb’ Young, Andrew Weatherall, Denise Johnson all RIP 💔

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🚨 RELEASE DAY! 🚨 I’ve known @evjanderson for nearly 20 years, ever since she DJed at the first ever Sonic Cathedral night in October 2004. I’m beyond proud to be releasing her debut solo album ‘Pearlies’ today. It’s been a long time coming, but it was well worth the wait...

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6 months

Amazing evening at the @BarbicanCentre seeing @_MichaelRother_ (and @mrjamesholden ) and finally getting the chance to hand over a copy of @Andybebop & @masalbanduk ’s cover of Neu!’s ‘Hallogallo’ 🟠

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3 years

30 years ago today The Boo Radleys released the ‘Every Heaven’ EP – four tracks of dreamy psychedelia which came out on the Tuesday after Easter after being delayed, like lots of records, by the problems at Rough Trade distribution...

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6 years

These Arctic Monkeys press shots just get worse...

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3 years

30 years ago today @rideox4 were on the cover of both Melody Maker (alongside Curve) and one of the final few issues of fellow much missed music weekly, Sounds. They were denied the hat-trick by @NME , who had Inspiral Carpets on their front page. #1991 #theyearshoegazebroke

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@soniccathedral

4 years

RIP Simeon 🍏

I Have Known Love

Song · Silver Apples · 1968

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2 years

Happy St David’s Day! Anyone fancy one of these for @Bandcamp Friday? 💐

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1 year

Incredible @slowdiveband show in Exeter last night. Finally, a show in glorious Devon! ❤️

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3 years

With a foreword by @RachelAGoswell , the 44-page book includes shots of all the bands that played that day, including shoegaze royalty @slowdiveband ...

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1 year

🧡💙 NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT! 💙🧡 We are incredibly excited to announce that we are working with the legendary former One Dove singer and songwriter @DotAllisonmusic . We will be releasing her majestic and mind-expanding new album ‘Consciousology’, on July 28...

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2 years

How great that we live in a world where @mogwaiband play to thousands of people. Proof that not everything is awful ❤️

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5 years

30 years ago today – on January 15, 1990 – @rideox4 released their debut self-titled EP on Creation Records...

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5 months

Today is a special day, because the @whitelandsband album ‘Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day’ is finally out. You can listen to it, buy it, do whatever you want with it from the link below. It’s a masterpiece.

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3 years

30 years ago today, @slowdiveband released their debut album, ‘Just For A Day’...

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4 years

‘Plastic Bag’ by @andybebop is belatedly released on all digital platforms today. It fuses fizzing electronics with introspective Big Star ‘Third’/‘Sister Lovers’ feels and you can listen to it/buy it here:

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3 years

30 years ago today @rideox4 released their ‘Today Forever’ EP. Still on the crest of wave following the release of their debut album ‘Nowhere’ just five months earlier, these four new tracks were all absolutely perfect...

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3 months

RIP Steve Albini 🖤

Low - Sunflower

The song "Sunflower" from the 2001 album "Things We Lost In The Fire" by Low.

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2 years

🚨 NEW SIGNING ALERT! 🚨 Incredibly happy to welcome the wonderful (and wisely Twitter-avoiding) Whitelands to the Sonic Cathedral family. They are one of the most exciting young bands we have seen in a long time... 📸 by Sidney Kwok

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3 years

Really pleased that @Andybebop ’s new single ‘Something Like Love’ has been added to the @BBC6Music playlist. Been trying to get on that ever since we started putting records out back in 2006, so this is a monumental achievement!

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6 years

@guardian What a horrible, elitist piece of ill-informed nonsense.

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1 year

Open at @IndieLabelMkt say hello and buy stuff 👋

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3 years

Any other labels want to start a database of flippers? This prick is going straight on it... 🐬

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@soniccathedral

2 years

We are here at the @IndieLabelMkt at @CoalDropsYard selling good things until 6.30pm. Come and buy stuff / bring coffee ☕️

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1 year

The rather lovely Chapterhouse boxset is out today. It has pretty much everything they ever recorded across six CDs, along with a booklet with lots of previously unseen photos and sleevenotes written by yours truly.

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2 years

Can't believe I'll be watching @slowdiveband tomorrow night, eight years to the day since their comeback gig at the @soniccathedral 10th birthday party. Also can't believe they let me put out one of the most incredibly beautiful things I've ever heard 👇

Slowdive – Golden Hair (Official Audio)

Limited edition 7” single by Slowdive, released as part of the Sonic Cathedral Singles Club on November 14, 2019. Subscribe here: http://www.soniccathedral.c...

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1 year

University Challenge goes shoegaze! 👞👀

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@soniccathedral

3 years

More importantly, how many indie labels will go under because of this? 🤔

Drowned in Sound ⚓️

@DrownedinSound

3 years

Dear #EdSheeran , The plural of vinyl is vinyl.

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8 months

I hand-wrote people’s names on the cards, so these flippers will all out themselves! 🤡

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2 years

⚫️ ANNOUNCEMENT! ⚫️ We are very pleased to announce a very special 10th anniversary re-press of @slowdiveband singer and songwriter @neilhalstead ’s third solo album, ‘Palindrome Hunches’, which was originally released in November 2012...

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2 years

Finally got a Number One record! The new @PyeCornerAudio album ‘Let’s Emerge!’ is on top of the @officialcharts Dance Album Chart and is also riding high in the Indie, Vinyl, Record Store and Breakers charts!

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6 months

Little clip of @slowdiveband playing ‘When The Sun Hits’ at @EventimApollo last night. What an amazing gig! 😍

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3 years

30 years ago today, the Slough Festival took place in the town’s Upton Court Park, disproving John Betjeman’s assertion that there wasn’t “grass to graze a cow” in the Berkshire town...

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2 years

So @Andybebop has created a piece of music to celebrate the new Wylde Moon perfume ‘(borrowed from) The Wild’ and he will be performing it later today at the @E_N_O along with their orchestra and singers. Here he is in rehearsals, 📸 by the ENO.

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3 years

We are excited to introduce @musichorsegirl – a noisy teenage trio from Chicago, who are one of the most exciting bands we have heard in a long time...

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🟠 NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT 🟠 @3QuarterSkies – the new band formed by Simon Scott from @slowdiveband – release their debut album ‘Fade In’ on September 6. It was recorded by Simon and mixed with the help of elusive Flying Saucer Attack mainman Dave Pearce...

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@soniccathedral

4 years

#BorisKilledMusic

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2 years

And here’s @rideox4 playing ‘OX4’ in OX4 💙

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4 years

30 years ago today @TheOfficialMBV released the ‘Tremolo’ EP. Four (well, more, really) incredible tracks that, to 18-year-old me, seemed like they were beamed in from another planet...

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1 year

NINE YEARS AGO TONIGHT 👀

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2 years

Come and buy stuff at @IndieLabelMkt before it melts! @PyeCornerAudio will be here from about 1pm! 🌞

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@soniccathedral

1 year

As it’s @Bandcamp Friday, we thought we’d put some more of the classic SHOEGAZER shirts up for pre-order. This time they are maroon on black / black on maroon with a new catalogue number of SCR278...

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Sonic Cathedral

@soniccathedral

4 years

Today is #NationalAlbumDay and it just so happens that we have released the best two albums of 2020 in the form of @smellybdrmm and @Andybebop 🔥🔥

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4 years

“I don’t have to be an arsehole, he’s already in me...”

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@soniccathedral

4 years

“I’ve always wanted to make a solo album, I’ve always said I would do it, although I never imagined it happening like, or sounding like, this one…” @andybebop from @rideox4 releases ‘The View From Halfway Down’ on October 9. Pre-order now:

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@soniccathedral

4 years

Best. Line-up. Ever.

Rave Down Radio

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4 years

Six year ago today, this actually happened....

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Sonic Cathedral

@soniccathedral

2 years

I’ve messaged, emailed and posted this everywhere I can. If you’re waiting for something you have ordered from SC it *will* come, just as soon as I’ve sorted out my Dad’s funeral. Please don’t take out PayPal disputes or hassle the nice people at @Bandcamp , or me. Please. 🙏🖤

Sonic Cathedral

@soniccathedral

2 years

Due to a family bereavement there will be a delay with posting out some orders. Most of the @smellybdrmm lathe-cuts were posted out earlier this week; the rest, plus the new ‘shoegazer’ T-shirts and any other outstanding orders will be sent as soon as humanly possible. 🙏🖤

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3 years

Alexa, why are there eight-month plus turnarounds at pressing plants?

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6 months

Incredible evening at the @EventimApollo with @whitelandsband (who were joined onstage by Dottie from @dearybanduk ) and @slowdiveband . Very proud!

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@soniccathedral

4 years

This was the first @rideox4 record I bought because I loved ‘Taste’, but then I heard ‘Dreams Burn Down’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The RIDE Archives

@ridearchives

4 years

Released 30 years ago today, the Fall EP by RIDE was released on 17th Sept 1990. The EP features Dreams Burn Down and Taste. The vinyl version had 'Horton-Cum-Studley Rave On’ and ‘Penguin Power’ etched into the grooves!

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3 years

@adeledailynet Won’t break the vinyl record, just a load of independent labels

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2 years

Dreams Burn Down?

Chris Mason

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2 years

A 25 minute speech later from the Prime Minister I’m told. And she’ll arrive on stage to ‘a 90s classic.’

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1 year

🎉🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🥳🎉 @Andybebop ’s second solo album, ‘Flicker’, was released a year ago today and it still sounds incredible!

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3 months

We are open at the @IndieLabelMkt - come and buy stuff and say hello 👋

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3 years

Happy birthday to @Andybebop and also to his single ‘Love Comes In Waves’, which was released a year ago today! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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6 years

Two My Bloody Valentine Albums Due Next Year:

Two My Bloody Valentine Albums Due Next Year | The Quietus

Kevin Shields revealed plans earlier this year to release two new My Bloody Valentine EPs. One of those was due to be released over the summer but never materialised – a situation My Bloody Valentine...

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@soniccathedral

2 years

These new @rideox4 reissues look so good. I’m very proud to have written an essay to go with the EP compilation about just how important those four records were…

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@rideox4

2 years

Happy re-release day🎈Ride's early classic EPs and first albums are reissued today on Wichita Recordings. 4 EPs, Nowhere and Going Blank Again are available on double white, blue and double orange vinyl variants, as well as on cd and digital >>>

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5 years

Do the right thing today #ToriesOut

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3 years

30 years ago today @slowdiveband released their third EP, ‘Holding Our Breath’, which included the classic ‘Catch The Breeze’ and their cover of Syd Barrett’s (via James Joyce) ‘Golden Hair’...