Shoegaze and dream pop from Crate, Vixsin, Casino Hearts, Activity, Bathrobe, above me, Tijuana Taxi, Slipdress, no more, headspin, Silverdeer and Heaven’s Night, with Closedown to close. Thirteen songs, one hour.
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Crate. Brooklyn four-piece: Cody Hudgins, Ezra Engler, Henry Smith and Juan Angulo. 'Julia' was their first single, self-released February 27th, 2024, and Stereogum put it on its Best Shoegaze Songs of 2024 list. They were on the Slide Away bill in Chicago in May 2026 with Hum, Nothing and Chapterhouse. Their self-titled debut album is set for Friday, November 13th, 2026 on Good English Records, with 'Julia' as track 7.
Vixsin. The shoegaze solo project of Lotta Thomése, out of Groningen in the Netherlands, and she plays it live with a band. 'Fawning' came out as a single on pixie pain records on November 7th, 2025. She wrote and sang it, and co-produced it with Sam Golshayan and Bas Kempkers. On February 11th, 2026 she opened for Painted Vein on the main stage at VERA in Groningen.
Slipdress. Five-piece out of Austin, Texas, with three guitars: Mikade Pottorff on guitar and vocals, Raphael Marie and Carson Roller on guitars, Gavin Thornbrue on bass and Julian Clark on drums. 'Fond' was self-released on October 10th, 2025, and mixed and mastered by Corey Coffman.
Casino Hearts. Los Angeles trio: Forest Holter on vocals, with founders Nick Minor and Jacob Rubeck, who also co-founded Surf Curse. Rubeck started Casino Hearts in Nevada. They regrouped in Los Angeles in 2021 and brought in Holter. 'In & Out of Time' came out as a single on July 9th, 2024 and opens the EP Lose Your Halo, out August 2nd, 2024. A follow-up release, A Walk in the Grass, came out March 18th, 2025.
Activity. Brooklyn band, with Travis Johnson on vocals and guitar and Jess Rees on guitar. 'Scissors' is on A Thousand Years In Another Way, out June 6th, 2025, and Jeff Berner produced the album.
headspin. 'Side Eyes' came out January 24th, 2024. Durell Williams is credited as composer and lyricist.
Bathrobe. Out of Portland, Oregon. Their self-titled album came out on Bandcamp on August 1st, 2018. 'a.m.' opens scary movies, a five-track release on Spirit Goth Records from November 15th, 2024. Spirit Goth is the label Josh Hwang, of Castlebeat, started in 2016.
above me. The songwriting project of San Francisco's Rick Altieri, who is also the drummer in Aluminum. 'water drops' is track 2 on Soften The Blows, out May 1st, 2026 on Oakland's Dandy Boy Records. It's the first full-length after a self-titled EP on the same label. Altieri wrote, recorded and performed it himself, with backing vocals from Lauren Matsui.
Silverdeer. Los Angeles duo, Halsey Bousquet and Nika Fazeli. 'Montauk' came out as a single on September 26th, 2025. They wrote it with Casey Lagos, who produced it alongside them, and it's track 2 on their House of Devotion EP.
Heaven's Night. A band out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. 'flight response' is track 3 on their four-song EP dizzy spells, released January 29th, 2025. Ryan Abeyta plays guitar, bass and sings, Antonio Harshbarger is on drums, and Abeyta engineered, mixed and mastered it himself. Their two-song moon presence came out on Halloween, October 31st, 2025.
Tijuana Taxi. Toronto three-piece: Jim Ritchie on guitar and vocals, Lucas Anderson on bass and Ryan Caley on drums. The band formed in 2013. After Paracusis in 2019, their debut album, Mirages, came out January 16th, 2026, self-released and produced by Jesse Turnbull. 'Slip Out' is track 3.
Closedown. Los Angeles four-piece from the early '90s: J Battle, Fernando Benitez, James Moran and Scott McDonald. Their album Nearfield came out in 1994 on Silent. Post-Punk.com put it on its list of 100 Essential Dream Pop Releases and pointed to 'Red Oval' as the track to hear. In March 2024 they put out Dissolve, with the Nearfield songs in different mixes plus a new track, 'Skywards,' mastered by Simon Scott.