Shoegazy indie rock vets Swirlies are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with a reissue of their 1993 album Blondertongue Audiobaton on vinyl and a tour. Dates including a stop in NYC at ...

For every shoegaze, post-punk, or experimental rock enthusiast, there’s a pre-Swirlies world and a post-Swirlies world. 32 ...

For Swirlies vocalist and guitarist Damon Tutunjian, “the quest for flowery language drives people to write horrible reviews.” I can’t say I disagree. “[Writing about music] shouldn’t be a poetry or ...

Rob Laakso died on Thursday at 44 after a battling a particularly aggressive form of cancer. The two artists most associated with him — Kurt Vile & The Violators and Swirlies — have since both shared ...

Rob Laakso, a guitarist with Kurt Vile & The Violators and the Swirlies, died on Thursday after battling an aggressive form of cancer called Cholangiocarcinoma. He was 44. The news was confirmed by ...

Shoegaze has been making a bit of a resurgence lately. The dreamy, washed-out late-‘80s/early ‘90s variant of post-punk sort of overlapped with the grunge era, and so the two strains cross-pollinated, ...