List of shoegaze bands

The following is a list of notable shoegaze bands and musicians.

Artists

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

• Adorable ^[1]
• Air Formation ^[2]
• Airiel ^[3]
• Alcest ^[4]
• Alcian Blue ^[5]
• Alison's Halo ^[6]
• Alvvays ^[7]
• Amesoeurs ^[8]
• Apollo Heights ^[9]
• Asobi Seksu ^[10]
• Astreal ^[11]
• Astrobrite ^[12]
• Autolux ^[4]
• The Autumns ^[13]
• The Away Days ^[14]
• Bardo Pond ^[4]
• Beach Fossils
• Benoit Pioulard ^[15]
• Bipolar Explorer ^[16]
• The Black Ryder ^[17]
• Bleach ^[12]
• Blonde Redhead ^[4]
• The Boo Radleys ^[18]
• Boris ^[19]
• Bowery Electric ^[4]
• Braids ^[20]
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre ^[4]
• The Brother Kite ^[21]
• Butterfly Explosion ^{[22] [23]}
• Candy Claws ^[24]
• Catherine Wheel ^[4]
• Chapterhouse ^[18]
• Cheatahs ^[25]
• Cloakroom ^[26]
• Coaltar of the Deepers ^[27]
• Cocteau Twins ^{[28] [29]}
• Cranes ^[30]
• The Curtain Society
• Curve ^[4]
• The Dandy Warhols ^{[31] [32] [33]}
• Daughter
• Deerhunter ^[25]
• Deftones ^{[34] [35]}
• DIIV ^[36]
• Drop Nineteens ^[4]
• Dust Moth ^[37]
• Echo Lake ^[38]
• Engineers ^[39]
• Th' Faith Healers ^[12]
• The Fauns ^[40]
• Feeble Little Horse ^[41]
• Film School ^[42]
• Fleshwater ^[43]
• Flower Flower
• Flying Saucer Attack ^[4]
• For Tracy Hyde ^{[44] [41]}
• Glare
• Glitterer ^[45]
• Hatchie ^[46]
• Have a Nice Life ^[47]
• Her New Knife ^{[48] [49]}
• The High Violets ^[50]
• The Horrors ^[51]
• Hot Zex
• Hotline TNT ^[41]
• Hum ^[52]
• Hundredth ^[53]
• I Break Horses ^[54]
• Io Echo
• Jane Remover ^{[55] [41]}
• Julie ^[56]
• Jesu ^[4]
• The Jesus and Mary Chain ^[51]
• Kill Hannah ^[57]
• Kinoko Teikoku
• Kitchens of Distinction ^[58]
• Knifeplay ^[26]
• Kraus ^{[59] [60]}
• Kyte
• Letting Up Despite Great Faults ^[61]
• Lilys ^[4]
• Loathe ^[62]
• Loop
• Lost Velvet
• Lovesliescrushing ^[4]
• LSD and the Search for God ^[63]
• Lulabox
• Lush ^[18]
• M83 ^[4]
• Mahogany ^[64]
• Maps ^[65]
• Mazzy Star
• Medicine ^[4]
• Mercury Rev ^[4]
• Moodring ^[66]
• Moose ^[67]
• Moving Panoramas ^[68]
• My Bloody Valentine ^{[69] [51]}
• My Vitriol ^[70]
• Narrow Head ^[71]
• No Joy ^[17]
• Nothing ^[72]
• Ovlov ^[73]
• Pale Saints ^[4]
• Palm Ghosts ^[74]
• Parannoul ^{[75] [76]}
• Pinkshinyultrablast ^[77]
• Pity Sex ^[25]
• A Place to Bury Strangers ^[78]
• Quannnic ^[76]
• The Radio Dept. ^[69]
• Ratbag ^{[79] [80]}
• Rev Rev Rev ^[81]
• Ride ^[82]
• Ringo Deathstarr ^{[83] [26]}
• Ulrich Schnauss ^[4]
• School of Seven Bells ^[84]
• Secret Shine ^[85]
• Seefeel ^[4]
• She's Green ^[86]
• Sianspheric ^{[87] [88]}
• Silversun Pickups ^[25]
• Shin Hae Gyeong ^[89]
• A Shoreline Dream ^[90]
• Sleep Party People
• Slow Crush ^[91]
• Slowdive ^[92]
• Soda Stereo ^[93]
• Softcult ^[94]
• Soundpool ^[17]
• The Spirit of the Beehive ^[26]
• Spiritualized ^[69]
• Spotlight Kid ^[95]
• Spunsugar ^[96]
• Starflyer 59 ^[97]
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow ^[4]
• Superheaven ^[98]
• Sweet Jesus
• Sweet Trip
• Swervedriver ^{[99] [100]}
• Swim Deep ^[101]
• Swirlies ^[4]
• Tanukichan ^[102]
• Tape Deck Mountain ^[103]
• The Telescopes ^[4]
• Temple of Angels ^[104]
• Terraplana ^[105]
• They Are Gutting a Body of Water ^[106]
• Tokyo Shoegazer ^[107]
• True Widow ^[17]
• The Twilight Sad
• Universe Nekoko
• Vaadat Charigim ^[108]
• Van She ^[109]
• The Veldt
• The Verve ^{[4] [69]}
• Vision Eternel ^{[110] [111] [112]}
• Wednesday ^[41]
• Whirr ^[113]
• Whitelands ^[114]
• Wild Nothing ^[115]
• Windy and Carl ^[4]
• Wisp ^[76]
• Yves Tumor ^[41]
• Zzzaam ^[116]

See also

• List of dream pop artists
• List of post-rock bands
• List of neo-psychedelia artists
• List of noise rock bands
• List of ambient music artists

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