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Rival Schools is an American post-hardcore band from New York City, New York. For most of their tenure, the band has featured Walter Schreifels on vocals and guitar, Ian Love on guitar, Cache Tolman on bass guitar, and Sam Siegler on drums.

Sacramento heavyweights whose alt-metal absorbed shoegaze and dream pop.

The definitive shoegaze band — Loveless remains the genre's north star.

Reading dream-shoegaze quartet that made rain sound cinematic.

Failure is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1990 to 1997 and again from 2014 to the present. They have released seven full-length albums and five EPs.

SSD was an American straight edge hardcore band from Boston. They released two records as SS Decontrol in the early 1980s and then formally changed their name to SSD. As SSD, they released two more records with a heavy metal influenced sound. However, the group is often simply referred to, including all its periods, as SSD.

Oxford motorik shoegaze — fast, greasy, road-movie loud.

Helmet is an American alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989 by vocalist and lead guitarist Page Hamilton. Helmet has had numerous lineup changes with Hamilton as the only constant member. Since 2010, the band has consisted of Hamilton, drummer Kyle Stevenson, guitarist Dan Beeman and bassist Dave Case.

Champaign, IL space-rockers — heavy chords, huge distances.

Bay Area shoegaze known for concrete-thick guitars.