Simon Reynolds - Still in a Dream : Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 (Secondhand Book)) A Handful of Dust the band are getting back

the band are getting back together for the first time for a 25th Anniversary Reunion Show at Ōtautahi's Space Academy on Saturday 14th December

the title-track ('Vibrations') begins poetically enough with Wolfgang Muller's epic and hugely reverbed vibraphone

textured drone of such '60s groups as the Velvet Underground and the Doors

King Tubby set the blueprint not just for reggae and dub producers from that point forth but also the bedroom producers working today with laptops and minimal tools trying to make something special with limited resources

Lisa Gerrard - Whale Rider (SECONDHAND CD)

Simon Reynolds - Still in a Dream : Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 (Secondhand Book)) A Handful of Dust the band are getting backThe definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock. Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the mid Eighties into the early Nineties. Capturing the musical exhilaration of the era along with the alienation of youth during a period of