Fish Magic’s 4th album strengthen its 80s jangle-guitar roots

“Kamakura” is Fish Magic‘s 4th studio album, it features 11 tracks recorded by Mario Quindere.

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Check our 79-bands compilation celebrating 30 years of zine and label

In November 2021 we released a 79-bands compilation divided into 3 Volumes: a vinyl (with

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Macintushie’s new single mixes English and French lyrics

Macintushie isn’t a word either in Portuguese or English but this Brazilian trio decided to

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Mr-Spaceman’s 5th album dives deep in Brazilian folk-psychedelia

Mr-Spaceman is Regis Damasceno‘s space to release his own songs. Born in Fortaleza, an idyllic

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Echo Upstairs live in Wasabi Cultura studio

In times of pandemic, unable to go on stage, Echo Upstairs recorded a live performance

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Echo Upstairs releases 2nd single: “Clouds”

Echo Upstairs just released its 2nd single “Clouds”. Ana Zumpano used to play the drums

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Submotile releases new single about these strange times

After a long silent period, Dublin-shoegaze duo Submotile released a new single. “Segregation” is the

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Ethereal yin-yang: nem single by Moon Pics

Diving into pandemic, confinement becomes unbearable. “ ‘suni’ came in a time of crisis. I

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New EP by Fish Magic: “Stillness”

After just one year since his 3rd and most recent album, Mário Quinderé is back

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Hypnagogic dreams with Electric Lo Fi Seresta

Rio de Janeiro’s Electric Lo Fi Seresta has released it’s new album titled “Songs From

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A good mix at Soho Radio

Pedro Montenegro is a Brazilian living in London, where he produces BarKino, a radio program

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Guitar Days documentary reviewed

British blog Film and TV Now reviewed the documentary “Guitar Days – An Unlikely Story

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Best 30 latin american twee albums

Latin American Twee is a page on Facebook publishing news about DIY indie-pop bands. They

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Submotile interview in Big Takeover

When we started publishing midsummer madness as a fanzine back in the early 90s, Big

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“Long Time No See”, new album by Brazilian trailblazers Pin Ups

It’s hard to explain to someone who is not from Brazil the importance of Pin

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Electric Lofi Seresta’s new album reminds us that the 2010s are ending (badly).

Guilherme Almeida’s solo project, Electric Lofi Seresta, is releasing his third album: “End of Decade”.

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Guitar Days – An Unlikely Story of Brazilian Music

“Indie” rock made in Brazil and sung in English? Why not? It’s the late 80s

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Noise shoegazers Early Morning Sky release first music video

Early Morning Sky‘s first music video is for the song “If I See You Again”

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New singles: Slowaves, Hatchets, Iorigun, Lautmusik

It may be difficult to follow but there were some exciting new singles out on

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Loomer at Noise Artists – extensive interview

One of the best resources on the internet is the blog Noise Artists, a collaborative

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Shoegazer duo Submotile’s debut album has a limited CD version

“Ghosts Fade on Skylines” was released last April by the duo Michael Farren and Daniela

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New singles!

Pin Ups is considered a Brazilian indie trailblazer. Formed in 1988, their first album came out

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Grape Storms: a hidden-gem from Brazilian 90s indie

Do you remember your mixtapes from the 90s? Well, in Brazil we were hooked by

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Bedroom shoegazing: aliendawg. & Moon Pics release a split single

aliendawg. and Moon Pics are two different projects. aliendawg. (written with lowercase and a dot) is Luiz

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Battle of one: Fish Magic’s releases 3rd album with a great help from his friends

After releasing two albums in two years, “Songs From the Night Shift” (2015) and “Sky

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Devilish Dear’s new music video and EP out now

It’s been almost 3 and a half years since “These Sunny Days” was released by

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So much more than lo-fi bedroom pop: get to know Macintushie

Pedro Baapz is just 23 years old and records dream-pop songs in his bedroom, pompously called Baapz Studio,

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Minimalist carnival

Today is the first official day of 2019 Brazilian carnival. Five days of dancing in

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When Italo-Irish shoegazer meets Brazilian shores

Dublin’s duo Submotile is back with a new single. Michael Farren and Daniela Angione released

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Where 90s hardcore meets shoegazer: Strawberry Licor

Strawberry Licor is from Itapetininga, a small city in the rich countryside of the Brazilian

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Post punk darkness from sunny Bahia: Iorigun

Iorigun formed from the ideas of Iuri Moldes (vocal/guitar) and Moysés Martins (bass/vocal) in 2014. They

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2013’s Psychedelic Brazilian Gem by Digital Amerindio re-released

Sandro Rodrigues, aka Digital Amerindio, released in 2013 his 1st and only album “Intensos Animais Imperceptíveis”

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Wild Romanticism: Frabin releases 2nd album

Recorded during second half of 2017 at his home studio, “Tropical Blasé” is Frabin‘s 2nd

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Tropical Fuzz: Brazilian Guitars – 1988 – 2015

In 1998 we got in an argument that made headlines in the Brazilian music press:

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18 Years and only 3 official recordings: Valv

Valv formed in 2000 when four friends coming from different punk and hardcore bands of

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Melting with Lava Divers

When we listened to Lava Divers first time, it sounded like a dream coming true.

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Loomer and alienation by noise

In an interview with Simon Reynolds for Melody Maker in the early 1990’s, Robert Hampson,

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Perverted by Homage: a Tribute to the Fall

When Mark Smith, founder and lead singer of Mancunian The Fall died on January 25, 2018,

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They invented shoegazerism: meet Early Morning Sky

Once upon a time, years ago, returning from a festival in Leeds (UK), G. Alves

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Heavy riffs, astral minds: welcome The Dead Suns

The Dead Suns is about comings and goings. Search for the musical history of its

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Gambitos + Pop: it’s a match!

Fabio Bianchini is one of those guys that would qualify for the employee of the

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Brazilian dream pop made in the Amazon

“Looking for the Big Star” is The Baudelaires‘ third album. For the first time, all

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Countryside astronaut in Motormama’s new music video

Motormama‘s song “Não Sou Mais o Mesmo Sujeito,” has now an unusual music video: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-WqSSyg_E8[/youtube]

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Lautmusik’s animated music video

Last August Lautmusik, post-punk 5 piece from the South of Brazil, published a music video

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80’s synth dream pop: Frabin’s 4 new songs are out

Frabin released last week a new EP titled “Nope” with four new tracks. This is

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JNKTR new single and video

After a long tour that began in April and ended in July, Justine Never Knew

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Brazilian shoegazer noise pioneers’ Low Dream complete catalog available

Formed in 1991, Brasília’s Low Dream released two albums, one cassete and a compilation of

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Spotlight on Devilish Dear

“After waves and waves of rather good but trite nu gaze bands, something this fresh

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Fish Magic releases 2nd album: Sky High

It would be a waste of time to enumerate all the reasons why living today is shit:

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Spotlight on Sci Fi

If you ever came across a brazilian band called Câmera, you might already know Bruno

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For those who don’t like rules: JNKTR releases debut album

JNKTR stands for Justine Never Knew the Rules, a brazilian shoegazer band from Sorocaba (a

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25 years ago, this day

On the 24th of september, 1991, Geffen put out Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, the band they bought

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Gold from Minas: new single by Churrus tells story about british mining in colonial Brazil

After 3 years, brazilian power-pop band Churrus returns with new single “Kingdom of Lords“. The

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Brazilian power pop from the Amazon. And a Big Star version.

The Baudelaires formed in 2009, released 2 albuns and 2 EPs but since 2013 has

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Rio de Janeiro´s Tom Gangue has great expectations

July 2012. Daniel and Gabriel were listening to The Cribs, Strokes e Subways, and decided

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New brazilian shoegaze playlist

Following the release of “Real” by Frabin, we decided to put together some music videos

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Spotlight on Frabin

Victor Fabri was born in 1994. This same year, we, midsummer madness, were converting ourselves

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The Gilbertos in Bandcamp’s curator-chief podcast

The Gilbertos’ “Haroldo”, a new song released as a single, appears in Andrew Jervins, Bandcamp’s

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Under the influence… Fish Magic

Mario Quinderé, the brain and voice of Fish Magic, organized a playlist with the sounds that inspired

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Lautmusik´s new album: The Cure and DC Comics

Lautmusik is releasing their 2nd album entitled “Juniper” today. It will be available in digital and

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Fishing on England’s 80s post punk scene: new brazilian band Fish Magic debuts with 8 track album

1994 was a magical year in Fortaleza, northeast of Brazil. An american US Air Force

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Spotlight on My Magical Glowing Lens

My Magical Glowing Lens started as a one-girl-band. In the end of 2013, Gabriela Deptulski, recorded

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Limited edition cassete for The Gilbertos new album

Finally available, The Gilbertos´ latest album cassete version. Featuring 10 songs, lyrics sleeve and a

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Rewinding brazilian MPB to 1978: The Gilberto’s new album

The Gilbertos‘ fourth album was released last thursday: Um Novo Ritmo Vai Nascer (translates to

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New brazilian bedroom dream pop scene

In the last few months we were delighted to enter some bedrooms all over Brazil

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Jangle bossa twee pop! Electric Lo-Fi Seresta

In Brazil, seresta is a late night viola party, usually played in the countryside, under

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A Última Peça, new project from Luisa mandou um beijo’s guitarist

A Última Peça (The Last Play) was to be just an archive of songs written

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Loomer shoots for new music video

  Shoegazer-noise quartet Loomer is shooting in southern fields of Brazil their next music video,

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Loomer now available in your favorite digital store

You can now buy the digital version of “You Wouldn’t Anyway” in one of these stores:

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Doc about brazilian surfer in Long Beach Film Festival

Brazilian documentary “Radical” will be screened at Long Beach International Film Festival this week. The

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Loomer’s debut album going well on reviews

Loomer on japanese noise blog Muso Planet. A four-piece band with ‘true alternative rock’ spirit,

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Supercordas second album review

Blog Space Rock Mountain wrote about Supercordas – A Mágica Deriva Dos Elefantes (2012) I

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The Baudelaires – Charlie

Second album by northern power pop brazilian band The Baudelaires. Band began in 2009 when Andro Felipe and Marcelo

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Spotlight on Churrus

Churrus got together in 2004 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, when Tulio Panzera, Bruno Orsini and

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Spotlight on Motormama

Released 7 years ago, Motormama’s first recordings mix country feedback with lo-fi keyboards. Neil Young meets Beat Happening

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Spotlight on: Ampslina

Violins and lush guitars, electronic interferences in this 1995 reunion. Listen to it.

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Review on Indie Pages

Various – Porque este oceano es el tuyo, es el mio (midsummer madness / Si

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Review on Indie MP3

British website INDIE MP3 wrote about “Porque este oceáno es el tuyo, es el mio”, latin

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Porque este oceano es el tuyo, es el mio

Porque este oceáno es el tuyo, es el mío is the first release from the

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Luisa Mandou Um Beijo

Luisa Mandou Um Beijo – debut CD with 10 songs and a version of samba-standart

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Anotherspot

4th album by Pelvs, with 9 songs, all sung in english. Four guitars, keyboards and

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