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My Bloody Valentine Are Too Loud

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 26, 2008 11:05 am
If you take a couple of normal folks and put them in front of a loud Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band, the ensuing noise will likely shake them out of their vanilla lives into fits of dancing. At a certain level, it's not even about whether the band are any good, so much as it's about the normies having this "I've-never-felt-like-this...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | Fifteen Noisy, Messy Songs

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 17, 2012 11:59 am
Feeling sluggish this morning? Same. But we've put together a little pick-me-up for you. Today we salute those artists who can make something beautiful out of dirty, messy noise. Noisy music has a sort of inherit spirituality: While angels up in heaven are plucking away at their tiny angel harps, us miserable humans are stuck on Earth, maxing out...
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Paul Weller Featuring My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields — "7 + 3 Is The Striker's Name"

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By CHARTattack Staff November 27, 2009 2:07 pm
Paul Weller and My Bloody Valentine guitarist Kevin Shields have collaborated on this new track. In case you're wondering, yes, Shields' typically loud, ethereal, ear-drum-smashing guitar riffs are included, but Weller's Mod-influenced rhythms are left intact beneath them. You'd think that kind of mix might not work, but it strangely does. The...
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions Touring North America

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 20, 2009 1:46 pm
Former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm O'Ciosoig, collectively known as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, have announced a North American tour in support of their upcoming second album, Through The Devil Softly. The tour runs through the United States and Canada and kicks off just before the album hits...
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My Bloody Valentine's "Radical Change" Imminent

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 17, 2009 4:19 pm
My Bloody Valentine will be very different soon, according to frontman Kevin Shields. Shields recently told the Dallas Observer newspaper that "everything" about My Bloody Valentine would go through "a radical change" at "the end of August," including the expansion of the band. "In that respect, we'll add...
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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Rachel Verbin
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Kool Haus
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Toronto, ON
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September 27, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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Rachel Verbin
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Toronto, ON
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September 25, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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Rachel Verbin
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Toronto, ON
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September 25, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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Rachel Verbin
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Kool Haus
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Toronto, ON
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September 25, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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Rachel Verbin
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Toronto, ON
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September 25, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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September 25, 2008
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My Bloody Valentine At Kool Haus

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September 25, 2008
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My Ears Hurt... And I Had Plugs In

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 26, 2008 2:52 pm
  The "holocaust section" at the end of "You Made Me Realize," which My Bloody Valentine played to cap their set at Toronto's Kool Haus last night, was at least 23 minutes long. "You Made Me Realize" is originally three minutes and 46 seconds long, but live, the band take the middle section and...
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New My Bloody Valentine Times Two

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 25, 2008 4:16 pm
People who like hearing guitars that go "aaaawoooooooooo" in a live setting rejoiced earlier this year when My Bloody Valentine announced they had reformed and would tour. My Bloody Valentine only released two albums, 1988's Isn't Anything and 1991's Loveless, before they disbanded in 1997. They had been working on their third LP for...
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Patti Smith And My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields To Release Live Album

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 25, 2008 3:00 pm
Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine guitarist/singer Kevin Shields will release The Coral Sea, a live recording of Smith's 1996 prose poetry book of the same name, through their new PASK imprint on July 11. The double album documents two performances on June 22, 2005 and Sept. 12, 2006 at London, England's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Smith read...
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My Bloody Valentine To Headline And Curate All Tomorrow's Parties In New York

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 23, 2008 4:30 pm
My Bloody Valentine will perform in North America for the first time in 16 years when they curate and headline September's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York. The recently reformed Anglo-Irish shoegazers are among those already confirmed to play the three-day festival, which will be held from Sept. 19 to 21 in the Catskills Mountains...
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My Bloody Valentine Plan To Release New Album Themselves

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By Moya Dillon (CHARTattack) November 26, 2007 5:00 pm
Following the recent announcement that British shoegazer band My Bloody Valentine will reunite for a spate of U.K. shows and record a follow-up to 1991's classic Loveless, their manager told Billboard.com that the quartet plan to go it alone without a label. "At the moment, all I can say is that Kevin is getting the band back together and...
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My Bloody Valentine Reunite, People Who Like The Sound Of "Whaaoooooorrrrrrrrr!!!" Rejoice

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) November 9, 2007 3:00 pm
It's been beyond a good week to be a fan of the progenitors of shoegaze. Hot on the heels of the Swervedriver reunion announcement, My Bloody Valentine have emerged from the doldrums of a 14 year hiatus and have reformed! MBV mainman Kevin Shields says the band have regrouped like a Voltron of white noise awesomeness. According to Shields, he...
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JAMC, MBV And Other Pioneers Featured In Shoegazer Documentary

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By CHARTattack Staff July 18, 2007 4:30 pm
The '80s shoegazer movement is being chronicled in a documentary by first-time feature director Eric Green titled Beautiful Noise. The Los Angeles-based Green has completed 47 interviews for the film, which is in the editing stage and has no firm release date. A few more interviews may be added to round things out. The film will examine the...
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My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Back In Bed With Sofia Coppola

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 26, 2006 5:00 pm
Kevin Shields has once again been coaxed out of hiding by director Sofia Coppola in order to work on the soundtrack to her new film, Marie Antoinette. Shields, the reclusive guitarist/singer/songwriter from My Bloody Valentine, last emerged in 2003 to contribute four score pieces to the soundtrack for Coppola's last film, Lost In Translation...
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