Slowdive continues to rise like a phoenix. The British indie-rock outfit — which got caught up in a U.K. press backlash against shoegaze music at the start of its career — has outlasted all detractors ...

When Slowdive first emerged from Reading in 1989, no one thought the shy, self-effacing teenagers would become one of the most influential bands of their generation. It isn’t easy to be a band for ...

As grunge and then Britpop dominated the music press and defined the increasingly corporate ‘indie’ scene, Slowdive were marked for death as the epitome of Home Counties, middle class, namby-pamby ...

Even the most devoted Slowdive fans may be unaware of just how harshly the legacy press criticized the band during their brief four-year run in the early 1990s. It wasn't until a decade later, when ...

If you’re a Slowdive fan or a shoegaze listener, you’ve probably heard these four essential tracks before and love them as much as the next diehard fan. However, if you’re just now getting into the ...

In the early '90s, shoegaze was the genre that everyone loved to hate. Blinded by the ascendancy of grunge and Britpop, the UK music press, in particular, was quick to show their contempt for what ...

Since reforming in 2013, Slowdive has now been around longer than their initial run in the early ’90s. The music industry they now inhabit has morphed into something that would have been completely ...

When Slowdive broke up in 1995, they did so under a cloud of label trouble, critical condemnation and questions over their commercial credentials. The Reading-based band’s three studio albums of ...

34 years into their career, Berkshire shoegaze pioneers Slowdive are more optimistic than ever. With the release of newest venture Everything Is Alive, guitarists and co-vocalists Rachel Goswell and ...

Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Next summer, it will be 10 years since Slowdive reformed in its original line-up: Goswell, Neil Halstead, ...