Shoegaze nerds, time to get stoked. “There’s a chance that we’ll get back together… It’s definitely possible at some point.” Halstead added that the band [Slowdive] never swore off a reformation. “No ...
For staunch fans of his music in the early 1990s, Halstead‘s transformation might seem like treason. Slowdive, after all, were a fiercely alternative group of teenagers from Reading, and the only ...
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Neil Halstead’s progression from the dreamy pop of Slowdive to the rarefied country of the Mojave 3 wasn’t the most predictable move, but the British singer-guitarist’s talent as a songwriter has ...
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 ...
Slowdive, the British rock band, has been making dreamy guitar-rich records since the early 1990s. They pioneered something called shoegaze, a heavily layered style of music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...
There”s an oddly special place in my musical heart for the glockenspiel. In no way do I claim that the glockenspiel the percussion instrument with a series of metal bars tuned to the chromatic scale ...
A reviewer once hailed Neil Halstead as “one of Britain’s greatest songwriters.” While we’re quick to become desensitized to such media clichés, in Halstead’s case, there is inarguably something solid ...
Neil Halstead of Slowdive on Reforming the Classic Shoegaze Band and the Eventual Return of Mojave 3
“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 ...
While Slowdive‘s early singles rode in on waves of distortion that saw the band lumped in with the rest of the shoegaze pack, by the time they released their 1991 debut album, Just For A Day, they had ...
Neil Halstead’s first band, Slowdive, generated a dense wall of sound that marked them as a second-generation shoegazer band alongside kindred spirits like early Blur and Swervedriver. His second, ...
Honey-toned singer Neil Halstead has a solo acoustic session planned for Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am Honey-toned singer Neil Halstead has a solo acoustic session planned for Morning Becomes ...
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