Labor Day weekend edition, featuring music by Boy With Apple, Chaton Laveur, Mark Peters, Malory and Tess Parks.

Gloria de Oliveira discusses her forthcoming album The Lying Swans with the release of its debut single "Fading Faces".

"It's about the nature of repetition and also scenes I pass by on the street that connect ideas in their own way,” said Karina Gill, lead songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Cindy.

Listen now | episode 31 of blank mood includes music by Soft Science, Velveteen, Cindy, Jim Jarmusch & Anika, Userband, Ghost Mutt, Herbal Tea, Edith Frost, and The Ladybug Transistor.

Boston is a “cerebral” audience when it comes to live music and indie bands.

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The Interlaken Tapes is the project of bedroom producer Gorden Spangardt (ex-Kirmes). A new release for summer 2026 titled DANCE is the project's latest “imagination of a different future”.

Looks like we’ve made it half way through 2026.

You'll hear streaks of Lush and Throwing Muses, as well as the influence of 90s indie rock in Becca and Billy Mohler's brightmoon.

A micro Q+A with Jason Kolb of Auburn Lull about the “Untitled” mystery tracks on their albums.

If you’ve ever felt a desire to disappear with the gentle but formidable force of nature, Jorden kallar is the perfect soundtrack to vanish with.

If a song can tip-toe through the dark, “Floatland ft. Lake Geneva (ALCATUNE mix)” is it. Both guitar and vocals lead the way, an interplay that guides while also evaporating into space above you.

Olympia-5 is a tender collection of songs that grew out of improvised piano recordings sent to a parent during a period of illness.

TIDES is a “collective journey through ever-shifting soundscapes, where synthesizers, expansive textures and sparse rhythms intertwine in an emotional flow suspended between intimacy and abstraction”.

No Statue by ff8282 is progressive muscle relaxation for the mind; sounds for a quiet space with emotional neutrality.

Heavy shoegaze and psych sounds from Toronto

a sophisticated daydream rejecting soft focus in favour of lucidity

Listen now to episode 29 with music by: Tijuana Taxi, Juliana Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Jim Jarmusch & Anika, Chainlacing, Emily A. Sprague, Jo Johnson & Hilary Robinson, Drexler, and Nadia Struiwigh

We dip back into the late 90s and hear from Southpacific in this Q+A.

Star Sailors: A Shoegaze & Dreampop Compilation is a collection of twenty-three indie tunes, delivering all the glimmers, tight squalls of noise, and moody haze you’d expect from a shoegaze comp.

Formed in 2023 from the ashes of a previous project, Bloom Effect is a Canadian shoegaze / dream-pop trio based in Vancouver, BC. Catch them live in Amsterdam in January 2026 at the Automatic Noise Fe...

38 features, 30 songs, four episodes, and 1 AI interview... blank mood favourites of 2025 and thanks to some special people, named and un-named.

If you're looking to shake things up in the new year, these streaming platforms will help you diversify your music-listening habits.

a blend of electronic pop and shoegaze that growls slowly, dissolving into the orbit of Krautrock disco

"For us, making music is a constant process. We treat recording like diary entries, putting ideas down constantly and letting them evolve organically." White Flowers talk about the 'energy of tragic e...

Glisten Trick is a project led by Glasán Ghost featuring collaborators from cult drone, neo-psych and garage acts from the US and UK. The band's debut single "Deep Cut" is a slow and gradual burner th...

An "improbable mix of folk, ambient, musique concrète and experimental electronics, sprinkled with spontaneous incursions from friends, neighbours, and family members,” Microchimères by Frédérick Dufo...

Listen now >> episode 28 includes music by: Ghost Mutt | Hazelene | Peel Dream Magazine | So, Reverie | Alphabet| Whitelands | Gold Cage | White Flowers

A new initiative of renowned local concert venue Paradiso will bring a bit of reverb and shimmer to the dark northern November days in The Netherlands. A single, affordably priced ticket gets you acce...

A conversation with Annie Bingley of Ghost Mutt about the band's tune on the new Gazed and Bemused shoegaze compilation released by 4000 Records.

A quick catch-up with Andy Power of So, Reverie about the band's latest single and forthcoming EP.

48 track album

Heights Lake is the latest collection of songs by Dramamine, the solo dream pop / shoegaze project of Pete Pom. In this blank mood Q+A Pete shares some of the themes behind the songs of Heights Lake. ...

Corporal is a seductive wrath of contortion, slipping quickly and deeply into psych trance territory. Some heavy Zeppelin bad-assery on “Ker” preps you for the trip. “Casi no estar” feels like you’re ...

Gazed and Bemused is a showcase compilation of 12 bands pumping new life into Brisbane, Australia’s shoegaze vein.

South London indie lo-fi rockers Holy Springs released several catchy singles this year, culminating recently in an album titled Outside. Outside delights with 36 minutes of scuzzed-out fuss-budget tu...

The Burning Paris are a six-piece band from Boston combining post-punk, shoegaze, neo-classical and dream pop. Their new album Last Leaves will be released September 5, 2025.